Great Smoky Mountains 🍁🐻

After 5+ years in DMV, I never won the Shenandoah lottery — so I never bothered to go. Moved to ATL this year, and finally made it with friends. Turns out, it wasn’t the place — it was just me being lazy 😂 📍 Cades Cove Loop Rd Traffic was as bad as I-495 / I-85 🚗💨 Crawling at 5 mph… But thank goodness for the sweet silver-haired grandma in front of us 🙏 She kept stopping and pointing — every time right at a 🐻 spotting! We even saw a bear casually strolling behind the cars. At first I thought, “Why isn’t it scared of people?” Then I remembered the sign: “Don’t feed the animals” — maybe they meant, don’t feed yourself… to them. 💀 📍 Ben Morton Overlook Not big on hiking 🥾 so we stuck to roadside overlooks. Drove around, stopped whenever we saw fellow Chinese travelers 🇨🇳 ’Cause you know — Chinese don’t lie to Chinese 😉 📍 Gatlinburg SkyPark SkyBridge was cool 🌉 but the line was loooong. Views? Just okay 👀 Lastly — just a heads up — my photos are totally edited 📸 The mountains are still pretty green right now 🍃 Chinese don’t lie to Chinese 😌 You can always trust the light… in Lightroom. Oh, and one more thing — My first time in the Smoky Mountains, and I didn’t see any smoke 🌫️ Guess I’ll have to come back next time! #SmokyMountains #FallColors #Atlanta #Photography #GreatSmokies #Bears #AutumnVibes #TravelGram #NatureEdited #ChineseDontLieToChinese