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Well...i live in Ohio, and funny you should mention Gatlinburg... 30 years ago when we got married, I couldnt take too much time off work, so our "honeymoon trip" was a trip to Gatlinburg and a drive through the Smokey Mountains..we were a bit early for the color ...We climbed the "Chimney Tops" and went to Klingmans Dome , but as we got there, the fog (clouds)rolled in and we could hardly see our hands in front of our face :( .We drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway into Cherokee North Carolina and then back home....We haven't been back since, but always say we are going to go back when the leaves are changing...

Happy Birthday Wiley!!..I hope you had a great time with good friends and good drink ;)

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Very Nice DF..your profile pic is hard to see...nice to put a face with a name...(well..an almost name ;) )

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Congrats Slovenka...2 weeks is great!.. you may have a few rough days yet, but you will look back and realize that the first 2 weeks were the worst....you are over that hump... keep moving forward! Congrats!!

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-10 here we are... ;) ....watch this.... on second thought....forget that....when-ever I said that when i was younger, nothing good ever happened...lol

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-13 Thanks..just going through some old Facebook pics (and photobucket) and thought it was the right time of year to post em...

-14 how ya doing today Ross?

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-17 Thanks Sally..we like to get out this time of year...cool weather, and great views...its a little early right now...usually about the 2nd week in Oct.

-16 Hey Sally..DD..and did I see "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds pop in ? ;)

Our anniversary is Oct. 12th and we always try to plan a week-end getaway that includes the fall colors...A couple years ago we were up at a cottage near Mackinac City (Michigan)...we spent a week driving the coast of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan..and went across the bridge into the U.P. ..The color was great and the views of the lakes were amazing! Here is the view from the top of a light house..not sure which one (we must have climbed a dozen)..but I think it was New Presque Isle Light House (Old Presque Isle light house is haunted...quite the story :) ) This is a pic of the Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula..we seen this and White Fish Point...Great lakes ship Wreck Museum.. (Edmond Fitzgerald)..along with the Soo Locks (Sault Ste. Marie) Last year we didnt have that much time to spend so we just took a day trip South to "Amish Country" (Holmes County Ohio...about a 2 hr drive) ..Again the color was great and its always cool to see the way things were done in a simpler time (well..for us...for them, its STILL their way of life).. This year is our 30th...nothing planned..I dont think the leaves will change by then...if anything they may just drop...my yard is already full of dead (brown) leaves :(

I gotta say, I thought that was hilarious! .. How-ever, as the father of 4 daughters, I dont think ...I mean...I KNOW... I would not have had the sense of humor he did...

Hey Cher....how was racing season?...I figure its about over, thats why you are finding a bit more time these days..lol.. I went through something similar with my feet...they would really hurt like hell in the morning...well, they would hurt all day, but REALLY hurt in the morning... in a nut shell I have "semi flat feet"..it seems everything is good until I put weight on them, then the arch flattens right out...stretching the plantar fascia tendon...after working (on my feet) all day, it would be really stretched, and then when I slept at night, it would "tighten" back up...of course it would be aggravated and inflamed also....in the morning , the first weight I put on it was excruciating ...and would take me a good 1/2 hour of hobbling around before i could "kinda" walk...I went to a foot Dr and he is the one who told me what he thought the problem was...I have inserts in my shoes now...it has helped 100%...He wanted to prescribe inserts that are custom made for me..and would last 6months to a year..at a cost of about $300.00..depending on how much I abused them...or he told me i could go to a shoe store and get ones that cost about $50.00 ...they are not quite as good (dont offer the same degree of support)...and they wear out faster.....well...i buy the $50.00 ones every couple months, and I put them in the shoes I wear the most, then put the ones I took out in my next pair of shoes I wear and so on(the shoes I mow the lawn in has the most worn out inserts in them..lol)....now all my shoes ave an insert in it, and even the most worn out ones offer support and my feet have never felt better.. I hope you find some relief...sore feet sucks!...makes anything you do almost impossible :(