We vacationed in Tennessee in August.  We rented a home at the TOP OF THE WORLD — or so the rental agency claimed.

The home did not disappoint.  After climbing, climbing, climbing in our good old van we finally emerged at the top of the rental house driveway and the view made us believe in the statement “take my breath away.”

It was an extraordinary view and we had an extraordinary time.  I’ll put a few pictures up of people sometime, but the star of our vacation was this view.  

Yeah, that’s the sun in the picture above.  One of the cool things about this view was that even though we were looking in the same direction, the light and the colors were constantly changing dramatically.

Here’s a shot of what it looked like in the morning:

And a few of in the evening:

 

It’s hard to get perspective of height in pictures, but if you look real close in the middle of this picture (click on any of the pictures to enlarge them), you will see a helicopter flying BELOW us:

Every afternoon, the hawks would come out and start swirling around us.  

And, if we ever tired of looking at the view from the back of the house, we could always look out the front:

The top of the world was pretty amazing.  I’ll put something up one of these days with people in it.  But, with a view like this, people are overrated.

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