I tell you what.

Allison and I left Pennsylvania after work on Friday to begin our road trip to Tennessee. We stopped in Roanoke to sleep and have brunch with an old friend from Greenkill, then continued on to our campsite at Frozen Head State Park outside of Knoxville.

The first few days we were pretty cold and rainy.

While Allison trains and instructs park rangers in high-angle rescue, I have been venturing out to find (reasonable) adventures.On Sunday I visited Oak Ridge, which is a town built as part of the Manhattan project and is considered to be the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Not much of the original town seems to have been preserved, except at the American Museum of Science and Energy.

They blinded me with science! (And atomic energy)

Apparently the work was so secretive, they didn't tell employees what they were doing, just stuff like,"if one lever moves to the left, turn this lever to the right." I would probably be fired within a week for snooping around.

 There were numerous displays at the museum, but I really liked the old timey-signs.

And of  course, no science museum is complete without random cool interactive stuff.

SCIENCE!

I'm not sure why they thought it was necessary to have a WTC made out of rusty metal in front of a science museum... But there it is.

There are still secret military compounds in the town that are mysterious and gated, with lots of security. I tried to drive by, but it's difficult to focus on the road and be nosy at the same time.

On my way back to camp, I had an unintentional adventure via my GPS. All of a sudden, I was doing zig-zags up the side of a mountain.

It was actually a beautiful drive with stunning views, but I was happy when I got back on track and ended up back at the tent.

Next post: Rugby, Tennessee.