Mar 29 - driving to Pigeon Forge, TN and "night on the town"

We started the day with a challenge--we can now get the RV buttoned up and ready for travel quite efficiently.  So, when we thought we would leave early, we were pretty proud of ourselves.  And since we just left Tiffin, who did the fixing of everything wrong with the RV, we were fairly comfortable.  However, when the bed didn't retract, for the 3rd time, we were NOT happy.  Fortunately, it is not the weekend, this time, and Tiffin service techs get there very early.
  The very helpful service tech told us when they checked the bed, it was working properly, of course.  We noticed the side wires leading to the motor that moves the bed was sort of out of the little plastic cage, and that the cage was separated from some of the links.  He talked us through fixing that.  Thank goodness we had them move the reset box out from under the bed, where it was not easily accessible, to a place we could actually see it and read the instructions, and get to the little button--which you have to push 6 times, then hold in on the 7th!  The poor tech couldn't figure out the problem, and had us switch the connections between the motors, and put them back when that didn't work.  Finally, after all the futzing, we finally got it to work--this time.  Breath a sign of relief.
  So we got on our way.  Tennessee is even more beautiful than the Alabama countryside.  You come over a hilltop, and see these huge mountain ranges in front of you, all across the skyline.  What I thought were mountains in Alabama, I now realize are hills, and the even bigger hills in Tennessee, I now realize are foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains.
  Then came our next challenge -- the GPS (the RV's, my phone's, my tablet's and the car's) all said to leave  Hwy 441 leading into Pigeon Forge, and follow these 6 other roads to our destination.  We did, and NEVER again will I blindly follow the directions without looking first at the maps to see if it makes sense.  The GPS will route you to shortcuts.  So instead of going down Hwy 441, then make two turns and you are there, it had us go UP, UP, Down, Around, UP, UP, Down, Around, Around, Around for more than six miles.  Some of the hills were so steep, I wasn't sure the RV would make it.  And the locals following on these VERY narrow, two lane roads with no shoulders and drop offs, were not pleased with my SLOW pace.  At least I now feel pretty comfortable driving the RV most anywhere.
  Once we settled in, we had to get the maintenace guy to help us figure out why our water line was spitting air.  He was very helpful and fixed the problem.  Finally, done.  Not going to make dinner, after all that, so we went into Pigeon Forge, home of Dollywood. and the Smokey Mountain National Park.  It turns out  more than 10 million people come through the park each year.  So, Pigeon Forge, and Gaitlinburg (the next town over) are tourist amusement park and tourist shop city meccas.  I can handle that environment for only part of one evening.  Had a good dinner.  We chose not to go to Dollywood.

Pigeon Forge photos-Iron works shop, restaurant, and kids play area: