Cades Cove in the Great Smokies.

Blogging on my Treo 650 from Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Yesterday we drove thru the busiest part of America's most-visited national park: Cades Cove in Great Smokies.

It's touted as the wildlife center of the park, but after the bear sighting earlier in the morning, we were due for a letdown--we saw only a few white-tailed deer.

Traffic congestion is a big problem in Cades Cove--I've been to Yellowstone and Cades Cove has the worst traffic of the two.

Mammoth Cave National Park, which we trekked through earlier this week, doesn't suffer from this problem in October.

Later today we're driving to the eastern border of the park in North Carolina. There's a Cherokee Museum there, and I'll pass on greetings from my old pal, Ward Churchill.