Cynz Travel Blog

🎄 We love the Smokey Mountains! It is beautiful anytime of the year.  We have never come up when it is decked out for Christmas though.  We took our big (and amazing) trip to Glacier National Park this summer.  So we kind of thought that would be it for us this year.  At the last minute, I decided we should go to the Smokies at least once this year.  It's been a little hard for me to get into the holiday spirit.  I'm hoping that this trip will give me the lift I need. As usual before we go on a trip, I got a horrible cold.  So I don't feel great, but fully intend to enjoy the mountains.  Maybe some good mountain air is what I need. As we drove into Pigeon Forge, the decorations at all of the businesses would put anyone into the holiday mood.  We booked a campsite at the KOA in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We usually try to find a campground out in the woods, but this KOA is very convenient if you plan to experience Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Dollywood.  The KOA is about tw

Two Medicine, Glacier National Park: We headed to the Two Medicine Entrance to Glacier on the east side.  There is a trail that Trish can do to some falls.  If you haven't noticed, there are quite a few falls around the park.  Curtis started saying "Trees, mountains, falls, rocks, weeds..." as a joke.  This trail wasn't as Trish friendly as the Swiftcurrent trail.  The gravel was really hard for Trish to maneuver through.  But she got to an open area where she could see the falls.  She stayed there and watched us being foolish, climbing all over the rocks. I didn't get in trouble for climbing all over the rocks.  I climbed up and over, down to the water. Have I said the water is REALLY cold?  The water is really, really cold!  I wanted to climb all the way to the top to see if a lake fed the waterfall, but I figured I'd get in trouble again. My sons would have been proud of their old mom.  I've always been a climber.  That's probab

We enjoyed a nice breakfast in the hotel restaurant before we set off for the day.  A nice older couple sat down at a table next to us and we found out they were from Dothan, Alabama!  They told us about all of the changes the hotel had made since they visited last.  Poor Curtis was the only Alabama fan in the mix.  The rest of us were Auburn fans, so we gave them a nice War Eagle before we said good-bye. We headed to the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston, Alberta first.  The museum was started by Donald Remington with an agreement with the Alberta government that he would donate his collection of carriages if they promised to open a museum.  The government agreed and expanded the museum, gathering more carriages and restoring them.  The museum currently has over 300 restored carriages from all of the different time periods.  Curtis and I stopped by the restoration workshop and spoke to some of the volunteers.  They told us that they try to use modern equipment whil