comment by arguewithatree

If at all possible, I'd prefer to go when it's not summer because I am a huge baby about heat. I'll put up with it, but I'd be a lot happier in the fall or early spring.

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user-inactivated · 3488 days ago · link ·

Smokey Mountains?

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arguewithatree · 3488 days ago · link ·

that looks like a good midway point. Meriadoc and I have been trying to go camping out here basically since we moved out here. I'm still getting my bearing wrt east coast geography so my sense of distance might be off.

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user-inactivated · 3488 days ago · link ·

DC and St. Louis are only 14 hours apart surprisingly. When you start getting West after that it's nutty how the distances grow so large.

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arguewithatree · 3488 days ago · link ·

14 hours isn't so bad. We'd probably take a day trip or 2 on the way and then meet up with the group.

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user-inactivated · 3488 days ago · link ·

To the Cumberland Gap from DC is only 8 hours too, so it's roughly equidistant in terms of drive time for both of us.

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arguewithatree · 3488 days ago · link ·

Cumberland Gap also has caves and I have always wanted to go spelunking

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user-inactivated · 3488 days ago · link ·

I've wanted to go there for personal reasons for a while. My ancestors came through the Cumberland gap in the late 1700s to move to Arkansas and Texas.

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arguewithatree · 3488 days ago · link ·

I have Okies on my mom's side. I bet I could find some sort of history connection there.