text: On September 20, five of us headed south in Deb’s Chevrolet Locomotive to visit Nicki and enjoy the mountains. Joining Deb and I were Mom, Doug, and Al. The locomotive analogy isn’t far off, since the Suburban towed an 18 foot motorcycle trailer/dance hall. We packed half of our earthly belongings into the trailer and spent the week at a nice rental home on Norris Lake.
  I’ll let the pictures summarize the 9 days, and since I couldn’t exactly post all 300 pictures taken during the trip, this is just the tip of the iceberg. It was wonderful, as always, to visit with Nicki and Nate and catch up with them.