Blue Ridge Parkway and Other Mountain Roads - Fall 2017 Episode 6
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- In search of those fall foliage colors, I drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, the sinuous Tail of the Dragon, the Road to Nowhere, the Foothills Parkway and through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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I am Maxim. I am from Russia. I like waching your videos. I study English on them. USA is the greatest country.
Hey Maxim. I am glad you find my videos useful. Thank you!
Robert thank you very much ;-)
u r an idiot to think this violent empire is a great country
Robert I love your videos. I am 58 yrs old, lives in Mississauga, Ontario and wish to travel like you but I failed to convince my wife to do this. I wish one day me and my wife can travel with RV and see beautiful North America.
I wish you can travel in an RV too. Take her to an RV show
This is one of the most thorough, beautiful videos. Appreciate your footage 💙
I never get tired of living in these mountains.
Thanks for sharing your travel experiences... I play your videos constantly. You are funny and the video is gorgeous!
Amazing fall colors! Beautiful views from drone. Thank you so much Robert!
I took my wife and son up on the bluebird parkway and they loved it. The views are spectacular!
We did the Tail Of The Dragon on a motorcycle. My husband was going a bit faster then I wanted. It was exciting and scary. I have been binge watching your videos for the past few days, I love them!
Just wanted to say thank you for all you do. Been watching you over a year and finally bought my first little trailer! Greetings from St Pete florida!
Hi, This video is very beautiful, I am from Saudi Arabia and I am happy to follow your channel
Excellent video and trip. Beautiful area. Thanks for taking us along. 👍
One of my favorites Robert! Thank you Hermano
Glad you liked it
Robert..... Great Video, Thanks for sharing. Those lakes look like they need some rain. Be safe and Be well.
Thank you!
Nice video.
Wow!
Such beautiful scenery and views!
That was a nice campground location.
Thank you!
Awesome scenery, love North Carolina.
Yes, one of my favorite states
Video Clic so do I; and have to visit again soon.
Traveling Robert my second favorite state after Virginia.
I live in Virginia. I didn't like living up "Nawth". Fortunately I have lived in Virginia for longer than I lived up North.
Traveling Robert I 💚💛💝💖💕💓💞 North Carolina!
1962, I think, forest fire at Fontana Lake. Our college dorm was the nearest pool of men. They cane for us at 1 o'clock in the morning, loaded us on a bus, and off we went to man the fire lines. We got paid, a wild sum of 36.00 dollars, which was a magnificent sum at the time. We felt rich, dirty and tired. A fond memory from my time at WCC, correct name at the time.
👍Loved watching. Terrific views . Thanks for sharing. 🤗💞🤗
GSMNP is the only national park without an entrance fee. That's because the state of Tennessee demanded that no fee be charged as a condition to transfer the land to the federal government for the creation of the park.
Good for them.
Taken my 21' chinook on a road trip late October... been home since the March (virus) ...so road trip .. Leaving Southwest Colorado and of October gonna be a snowbird I'm so glad you did these great videos thank you... Because I have never been East of the Colorado state line!
Gidyupp
Oh wow that place is gorgeous.I want to travel like you guys one of this day. When my girls move out.
Me too. I can't wait. 😁
Thanks for showing. Blue Ridge Pkway. We live in Blue Ridge, Texas. Great Videos.always LIKE your videos and we are subscribers. .Great Music too. Thanks again Robert. Age here is 76 so can't travel any more so we let you do it for us.
We love you Robert!!
Great video! it bring me thoughs of the years that I lived in Chattanooga TN, if you want to see all the seasons in it’s full esplendor you have to go there.
Awesome video! You know when to slow down and when to speed up. 😊
Wonderful job narrating 💕 thank you
I loved the narration and scenic views. We are new to the R V world and looking forward to our own experiences.
Because I live in this area I really do take it for granted but it is a spectacular place to live!
Thanks for the trips, great footage and views
Great video as always! 👍
Great job.Beautiful place.
Amazing, siempre welcome sus videos thank very much Robert.
+Roberto Martinez ¡Gracias!
Really enjoy your videos. Just beautiful.
Thank you
Great videos and funny comments, thanks
Beautiful colors. Have never been through there. Need to go. ❤
One of your best, great job!!
Thank you!
Recently discovered your videos. They are great! Love the presentation and music, as well as your comments. You are a wonderful videographer. Keep making them!
PAM H. So true!
Wonderful video. We love the BRP! Excellent narration. You have an excellent narrator's voice.
Thank you so much
The nantahala area is incredible
Been to a lot of places many times that you filmed. Good job !!!
Gorgeous.
Goooooooooood Morning Robert. Loved your GSMNP Video. Your traffic experience is one reason one of the largest National Parks does not charge a fee to get in. Can you imagine how much more additional traffic charging a National Park Fee would create? You didn't miss much not going to downtown Gatlinburg. Fall is always very busy. I'm glad Newfound Gap was pretty. Sorry you lost a memory card. That happens to the best of us! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Glad you liked it. Newfound Gap was crowded but great views
Robert enjoyed that very much
Great video! Loved the drone shots!
u make the best travel videos
Southwestern North Carolina is beautiful! I love to take the back way into NC up US74 from Cleveland Tn through Ducktown. It's nice and you bypass Knoxville and all the traffic on I-40.
Beautiful ♥️ thank you for sharing 😊
just discovered your channel recently and I live in NC. I want to see familiar sites through the eyes of a visitor.
I went to gainburg back in 1982 in September and
It snowed us in for an extra day.at that time it was not at all crowded. but the snow made it like a winter wonderland
Bryson City NC is my fav town. Tourists, but not overrun with them like Gatlinburg. Great little restaurants. I rented a beautiful log house last year with a wrap around porch with long range views as the base for driving around the Smokey Mtn Park. It was heavenly as all the leaves had turned colors. That was before I got my Minnie trailer. Love that area!
Yes, I gotta stay at Bryson City next time for sure.
Beautiful scenery.
Diana you are so absolutely right!👍
Great seeing Wears Valley Road where I used to own property.
The AT shelter at Fontana Damn is known to thru-hikers as the Fontana Hilton because of the size of the shelter and its amenities.
Beautiful video!
Nice primitive campground on Calderwood Lake lived my life in the area
Leaves peak over several days, not all at once.
Waser, lol...the main thing there is what you drove by, the NOC (Nantahala Outdoor Center) where they have had world championship water sports competitions.
You beat me to it. lol
Nice video of my neck of the woods! Happy October first! I really enJOYed your video :)
Mt. Mitchell is a must!
I've made a note to visit next time
This trip is in the top, of my bucket list.
Marcos Custodio did you read my mind? North Carolina is on my bucket list too.
got a tip to check out your uploads....gorgeous in the Smokies, blue ridge, Highlands & all around is breathtaking Robert...been there often....little places for organic produce...chilly in the Panhandle of Fl too..thanks for your generious shares ~
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Beautiful seen Robert
Yes it is, love the mountains
Too much enticing video especially the different color of leaves ..loved the forest.. this forest can be seen in wrong turn movies...love you Robert
Hi Robert, superb video as ever. Perhaps sometime you might like to drive the whole of the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way up to Shenandoah National Park, it would be a great experience. Allow plenty of time though, every overlook is better than the last one!
Yes, the next time I do the BRP I'm going to do the whole thing.
So much to see along the BRP: Waterrock Knob, Mabry Mill, Northwest Trading Post, Humpback Rocks Pioneer Farm,...
My grandmother would drive us (Mom and I) on the BRP, she'd book a night at the Otters' Creek Lodge, had some fond memories of that place, the first time i went I thought the mountain was haunted...over time I think I convinced myself it wasn't haunted. Now this was when I was like 4-8 I think....this age i am wanting to revisit places I went when i was a little tike....
one of the most things i like about Robert's channel is he puts subtitle on almost videos
'cause i'm not a English-speaker, it's really helpful to me. Thank you Robert!!!
What a lovely video❤. I'm planning to go here soon. Just found your channel and subbed. From New Orleans ❤😍❤
I love the fall colors, but it signals the coming cold. It is so cold. I wish the colors lingered a bit longer, and I'm glad you finally got to capture the eastern side. It was beautiful.
Yes, this weekend the cold even came down to Miami.... not for long though
Excellent video . And unfortunately , heavy traffic is almost everywhere you find a tourist now . Happy Travels .
Next time you're in that area, try and stop at Na-Bers drive in on 19. It's between Cherokee and Bryson City.
Fantastic views and amazing burgers.
Excellent video .. Great job i love it..
+REMY LOVE Thank you
I used to do motorcycles rides up from Florida in that region back in the 90's and early 2000's. Haven't been back since then but will be in that area in about a month with another motorcycle. It is absolutely beautiful up there...
Yes it is. I'm going to try to go back next month too.
Other than Gatlinburg and you rv campsites I have been to every place you filmed. Gatlinburg is to commercialized and I avoid it.
so how did the fall colors go in the smoky mountains in october of 2018.
What a beautiful nature.
Cecilia Alijda absolutely!👍
Hey my friend This was Avery nice Video again the colors were espectacular looks like you really having fun man safe travels 👍
Thank you Willie
Hi Robert you ever by in Helen GA? Traffic is crazy like this in Tennessee.
Never ever come on Saturday or Sunday you going to spend at least 4 hours on one line road traffic. It is crazy.
Robert great video you were at some of the places I went back in Dec 2015, Townsend, and US 321, and of course driving south on US 441 through the Smokies...on 1 section of the video I thought you captured my similar photo I took, but it wasn't....Been cool if it was. I think that this video segment was by far 1 of your best...too bad that Tail of Dragon SD card was lost...would have been cool! Glad you were able to make it back safely, and honestly Gatlinburg is really a big Tourist town, very similar to Helen GA, lots of "German look a like buildings...and many many people" -- perhaps another time....
We have great Fall colors here in Utah
Great video, I know just what you mean about the Gatlinburg traffic, I have encountered it many times and every year it gets worse! Keep the great videos coming. See ya on the road one day.
Thanks! See you on the road!
Must be very encouraging for every thru-hiker to see the sign @ 24:20, Katahdin Maine 1972.0.
The "GPS lady"...love it. Deep Creek is a fun place to rent a tube for $5 and river float all day, cheap fun.
How do I find that place?
Deep Creek near Bryson City is a great place to go tubing.
BEAUTIFUL FALL COLORS BORN AND RAISED IN BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON GOD'S GREEN 💚 EARTH 💚💚♥️🇺🇸
As always, great video. To see great Fall colors, you need to go to New England. It starts at the beginning of October in way Northern New England to Mid-October in Central and Southern New England.
The plan is to leave to New England soon. I've heard this year fall colors are going to be great.
You need a T-shirt that says “Maybe Next Time” 😀
Maybe next time :-)
What a beautiful the "New found Cam" view
Yes, it was breathtaking
The Appalachians are beautiful
Hi Robert,
Just a little more info about the “Tail of the Dragon” for your viewers. 318 curves in 11 miles. Sport car owners and motorcyclists the world over come to the “Dragon” to test their skills. There is also a “Tree of Shame” for those who fail and wreck their ride. If they have lived and most do, (alot don’t), they are supposed to hang some part of their “ride” on the “Tree”.
NOTE: State Patrol heavily enforce speed during peak tourist season but for those who dare....The adrenaline rush is incredible.
Indeed Paul, my friend who owns a motorcycle has rode on this "TOTD" many times. Of course he is not that brave enough to push the limits on speed. He lives nearby, so that's where I got the info, and hearing Robert was going to visit the area, -- was super cool! I have yet to get to the point where he rides on the "Dragon", be interesting to hear his comments.
That area has several "curved" roads....I remember my dad driving our rental Class A near Cherokee NC with many curves and switchbacks...
Paul Howell I was there, yes, I’ve done the curves and all these beautiful roads... nice colors Robert
Very curvy road, as are many in the area. Highway 28 was pretty curvy too and I did that one towing the trailer
Man you really have a smooth delivery . your voice in the videos quite nice and no shi&% electronic music. Editing is great. I Hope you have someone special in your life to do this adventures with. KEEP PLOWING 🐊
Great job with the video ! Safe travels! Should check out the Cumberland Falls in Williamsburg Ky.
Hi Robert, I have watched many of your videos and love your work. I know you do your own music and your narrations are fun and professional. In this one loved the comment that you took Two Seven-minute hikes! My kind of hikes. Keep em coming.
Thank you!
Beautiful Fall scenery It's tough when traveling with a trailer behind you to stop at a lot of the small roadside places. We were in Smokies last y ear
Yes, that's why I want to get a small motorhome. Thank you!
I did things the opposite way. First bought motorhome and the changed to camper. I am loving my airstream but there are definitely pros and cons to both
Thank you.
You're welcome
Yah...I did the Tail of the Dragon in my F350 Crew Cab Dually with a 32' trailer in tow...seemed we took "a short cut". Well...not to bright but I get through it without wrecking anything...yes I pulled off when I could to let people pass.
Thank you so much for this video I've been trying to find out this stretch of road that we took last year to pigeon forge we had made a wrong turn and it turned out being the most beautiful wrong turn ever. Want to make the same wrong turn again this year
Great Video
Nice RV park.
Thanks for another great video Robert. You didn't miss anything when you bypassed Gatlinburg, Now don't get me wrong I love your country and have spent many enjoyable stays there however, IMO Gatlinburg is the worst of the USA. What was once a lovely mountain town has been totally ruined.
I love your videos my friend. Maybe it’s just me but your accent reminds me of Triumph the Insult Dog’s. BTW, you’re living the life!
Ha, thanks!
Roaming Gnome 😂😂😂😂. Triumph, the insult dog used to crack me up all the time!
hi Robert sir,how r u I have seen ur video.the all vedio is very glorious because I love travel.I have become ur biggest fan sir.I want to go to travel with u but it is impossible because I live another country.sir ur genius good bless u
Robert,come to pigeon forge on labor day weekend and camp with my family. Riveredge rv park. Lots to see and do up there
I was there a couple of months ago. Beautiful area.
I really like your videos. Very good quality. Can you tell me what dashcam you use? Thank you
You’re video was awesome 👏😊👍
+Diana Thank you so much. I liked it a lot. I'm glad you liked it.
North Carolina is my second favorite state (after Virginia, where I live)
The leaf color changes are late this year. Last year it was at peak the first and second weeks of October.