One month after a devastating hurricane destroyed so much of our happy place, we rode up to Waynesville / Maggie Valley, NC, to see what was left. We passed through mudslide areas, sections of roads that had washed down the mountain, and miles of landscape that is forever altered. It was heartbreaking to see so many people still trying to clean up and rebuild almost 5 weeks later.
But our happy place is still there. I don't know of anything that can take away the beauty of sunset over those mountains. I was lucky to make it to this lookout just inside the Cherokee Qualla boundary in time to snap this photo.