Smoky Mountains Family Vacation: Alum Cave
Smoky Mountains Family Vacation: Day 2 Alum Cave The boys conversing about their misery, just before the "storm" (i.e. near meltdown), in the midst of the storm. With my first goal of vacationing met (the cabin chosen and reserved), I moved on to my next goal: Strategic Research. For me, this element - the research - is a long, slow, drawn out process. It is, first and foremost, a brainstorming session. I make a few initial searches, save a few tabs and begin to get ideas. I am apt to be flexible to the desires of the day, so I am not one of these committed schedulers. I get a general idea of the things we would all most like to see and do, I select my “lean-to’s” in the evenings, and I solidify plans (with clauses for adaptation) the morning of. I’m not sure this is the way most people would handle vacation, but…let’s face it. I am not most people. (And that is OK! 😉) I had a surprise early morning with the squirrel lying next to me come full ...