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The Toskey Reports: Day 5: The Creation Museum

Our final day of vacation we hit The Creation Museum. Wanna know what they had there? Dinosaurs! Lots of dinosaurs! And they had a lot of information about dragons too! Were dragons and dinosaurs the same thing? I don’t know. I do know dinosaur bones have been found just about everywhere, and dragon legends areContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 5: The Creation Museum”

The Toskey Reports: Day 4: The Ark Encounter

If you’ve never been to The Ark Encounter, the first thing you’ll notice is that this boat is big. I mean REALLY BIG! I don’t know how it compares to a modern day cruise ship, and I know it’s not as big as the Titanic, but Noah’s Ark is BIG! 500 feet long, 85 feetContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 4: The Ark Encounter”

The Toskey Reports: Day 2: Part 5: Pigeon Forge

The plan was to spend the following day in Pigeon Forge, but somehow Mom and Dad found the energy to do a little more sightseeing that evening. After returning from the Smoky Mountains, Mom decided we should take a walk around the area where our hotel was. We had seen sight seeing trolleys going upContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 2: Part 5: Pigeon Forge”

The Toskey Reports: Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 4: Clingman’s Dome

It’s a sad truism that old people continue to get older. So is the case of my Mom and Dad. They had bought the Equinox, a vehicle with a strong towing capacity, with the intention of someday getting a pop-up trailer and traveling around the country to the National Parks. Clingman’s Dome got them re-evaluatingContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 4: Clingman’s Dome”

The Toskey Reports: Day 2, Part 3: Signs of the Times at the Smokey Mountains

At one of the vistor’s center in the Smokey Mountains National Park, there’s a slab of cement with a sign posted beside it. It was a First Amendment / free speech area. I had never seen such a thing before! Neither had Mom. I scratched my head. “So, if you want to talk, you haveContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 2, Part 3: Signs of the Times at the Smokey Mountains”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 1: the Thing about Cheap Hotel Rooms

Mom thought it was funny when she discovered I’d been in the car all night. Yeah, mom. You’re quite the joker. They trust you with kids, and you can’t even take care of a teddy bear? Sheesh! The two of us went to find the breakfast room at our hotel. The weird thing was thatContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 1: the Thing about Cheap Hotel Rooms”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 2: Slow Food and Near Misses

It seemed to take forever for dad to get packed up for our trip, but finally we were on our way. Kinda. No one had eaten breakfast so Dad decided to stop at Macdonald’s. Mom scowled at him. She’s gluten intolerant. That means she can’t eat anything with flour in it. It messes up herContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 2: Slow Food and Near Misses”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 1: We’re Goin’ on a Road Trip!

Hello. Toskey here, the traveling bear. It’s been a while since I sent any notices, and back then it was through emails. Talk about snail mail! So, anyway, I overheard mom and dad saying they were gonna be taking a little vacation. No kids this time, just them, well, that didn’t seem right. Yeah, theirContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 1: We’re Goin’ on a Road Trip!”