At the Swag

 Following our week in Jonesborough for the National Storytelling Festival, Trish and I come over to my home town of WAYNESVILLE, North Carolina, for a recovery week at The Swag.  The Swag is an award winning country inn located right against the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is owned and operated by our friends, Annie and David Colquitt.  

Each day I tell stories from five to six o’clock in the late afternoon just before dinner time. When the inn is full, there are only thirty-four people here.  It is a great change from the multi-thousand tents at the Festival last week.

The elevation here is 5,000 feet and the fall colors are just moving into their full glory.  Today was a picnic day and we led a “slow walk to the picnic” taking people on the Cataloochee Divide Trail to Gooseberry Knob for the picnic.  This gives me a chance to tell people all about this place where I romped around in my growing-up years. It was a lovely crisp autumn day.

We are here until Sunday and each day the colors promise to become more and more vibrant.  What a good way to regroup after the busyness of last week.