Vacation ideas?

[Catrin]

Catrin, the book I have is called Cycling Middle Tennessee. I picked it up at the bike shop that's at the northern end of the Natchez Trace. They had several different books on the area.

Where in Tennessee are you from? I love the state--at least from a cycling standpoint. I'm trying to talk my DH into doing BRAT with me.

I was born in East Tennessee - as an interesting side note you may have noticed that people from East Tennessee are never from Tennessee, but from East Tennessee I am from the Knoxville/Maryville/Great Smoky National Park area.

The book that someone mentioned about cycling the Blue Ridge mountains looks interesting as well! I can't spend any extra money though - gotta pay for my lovely new Surly in 21 days

[indysteel]

I was born in East Tennessee - as an interesting side note you may have noticed that people from East Tennessee are never from Tennessee, but from East Tennessee I am from the Knoxville/Maryville/Great Smoky National Park area.

The book that someone mentioned about cycling the Blue Ridge mountains looks interesting as well! I can't spend any extra money though - gotta pay for my lovely new Surly in 21 days

DH and I spent a week in Townsend last year and went to Maryville a few times. It's lovely through there.

[tulip]

France.

[Catrin]

DH and I spent a week in Townsend last year and went to Maryville a few times. It's lovely through there.

Townsend is beautiful, I have family there. Right now I am trying to plan when I will take a week off this summer and go home and visit the mountains with my new bike....errrrr...visit my sister. Yeah, that's it

[Jaclyn]

If you decide on Townsend, I'll recommend the Dancing Bear Lodge. The owner is a cyclist, and they occasionally host cycling weekends. They provide route maps of the area and can provide advice - they even have bike rentals (great if you want to try some mountain biking).

http://www.dancingbearlodge.com/cp/A...-Fishing--.htm