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    Knoxville Getaway, Desert Door Sotol, and Wigwam Village Tee Pee Trip

    We are back home from our getaway! What a fun time. We got to Knoxville yesterday at exactly Noon, having left around 8:30 or so. We gained an hour on the way. We had stopped in Cookeville for a tiny breakfast and more caffeine (unsweet iced tea for me) so our tummies would not be empty. We arrived and I’m just in love with their condo. It’s perfect for them. They have a screened porch room on the back also! It was so nice. Around 1 or so we ate a wonderful lunch of chicken salad on croissants – it was the Chicken Salad Chic’s chicken salad. I had saved…

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    Home Again, Knoxville Shopping and Eating, and Seeing Family

    We are back from our weekend excursion. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We played, shopped, ate, and took in the views, and had some lovely cuisine experiences. We saw family, met our great niece for the first time. It was a perfect trip and we want to go that direction again for other long weekends away. We also found a lot of Christmas gifts and I checked off something from my bucket list, which was to take George to Waynesville, NC. There are so many things we’d like to do when we go back again. And probably a few of the same things again. George got to go to another McKaye’s…