Spring break of my senior year of college, my friend and I took a road trip in his sister's car from North Carolina through the Smokies and Tennessee ending in New Orleans, before driving through Nashville back to Chicago.
One of the absolute highlights of the trip, and my life for that matter, was trekking in the Smoky Mountains. Specifically, the day we tried (and failed) to tackle Thunderhead Mountain.
I'll save that story for another day, but it ultimately inspired my pilot (currently posted under TV samples). My friend got around to developing some of the photos we took during that trip, and during that day specifically. They're absolutely beautiful and I'll post them here. I hope you can enjoy them, if not for using them as an imagination-backdrop when reading Smoky Mountain Killer, then simply as a portal into the surreal, natural world of the Blue Ridges.
That's me. Spring, 2013.
