Thursday, July 24, 2008-Cherokee NC

After eating breakfast at a pancake house in Cherokee, we drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Richland Balsam, the highest point on the parkway at 6047 feet.  Then we drove around the north boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Gatlinburg.  We stopped at the Sugarlands Visitor Center where we watched a video about the Smokey Mountains National Park.  We walked through the exhibits about animals that reside in the park.  When we left the Visitor's  Center, we drove through the park over New Found Gap back to the  Cherokee KOA.  After we discussed our dinner plans, we drove to Kentucky Fried Chicken and bought two dinners and returned to the camper to eat while we watched a video.