May 30, 2021 Day 42: Yuma, TN -- Greeneville, TN

中国餐馆 A Chinese restaurant

RV site 营地

In the morning, we stopped by a local cemetery. The owner of the campsite said that there was a Civil War battleground nearby and the cemetery was for veterans. Around the campsite, there was a catch-and-release pond, surrounded by some mean, orange-beaked geese. They honked and hissed if we got too close, and walked towards us instead of away. One of them had a black beak. It seemed more similar in looks and disposition to the canadian geese where we live. They are much calmer. I also found some cicada shells on the beech trees. Our last driving day also took the longest: we drove until late at night and arrived in the darkness.

We stopped at two locations. The first was Belmont Mansion. This enormous house was built by a lady who had been widowed several times, was born into money, and married into money. The mansion was later bought for cheap by a few women to start a women’s college that eventually became Belmont College. Each room was filled with paintings, priceless sculptures, marble and gilded frames. We met a museum docent who was a recent grad of the college. He had originally planned to go to law school, but pivoted to cyber security for a more financially viable career. His parents were in Korea on a military base and he wasn’t planning on visiting soon because of quarantine restrictions.

We also went to a hot pot place, designed in a very fancy-chinese-restaurant style. Painted gazebos stood inside the restaurant and hot pot stove-tops were built into tables.