In case you want to impregnate your cousin but your hometown won't allow it.

>>2810122
Only niggers make incest jokes about comfy southern towns

I prefer the adjacent plateau to the ridge and valley!

>>2810097
looks comfy but I find mountains that don't rise above the treeline to be wholly unimpressive

>>2810122
Shalom!

>>2810122
Incest is not any more degenerate than homosexuality

Went to Gatlinburg for a wedding in 2006 and the shops were still selling KKK pins and baseball caps

>>2810137
If you find a rock that has no trees blocking it - the treeline doesn't matter and the surrounding trees give you a prettier view

>>2810158
it's ok to be gay

>>2810163
you kinda have to ignore the background noise (unless that's your thing)
you are there for the hills

>>2810336
Ah I sense a fellow traveler. When does the narwhal bacon, my good gentlesir?

>>2810368
>When does the narwhal bacon, my good gentlesir?
what?

>>2810158
what about homosexual incest?

>>2810621
what does this have to do with enjoying nature?

The whole world out there waiting to be explored, and you go to Gatlinburg. That makes me very sad for you.

>>2810097
The soul of what? Fat families wandering the sidewalks looking for something more to eat after they already stuffed their face? Tourists love shitting in the woods and tossing their T.P. in the shrubbery.

West Virginia is much more soulful. Hell, Mountain City is more soulful than Gatlinburg.

>>2810122
>>2810743
>>2810745
>>2810746
>crabs in a bucket

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>>2810746
There's this really awesome gift shop in Webster Springs that sells lathed wood bowls for good prices that I want to visit - last time I was there I was there on a Sunday when they were closed. There's also a farm-fresh meats store if it hasn't closed either - Spillman Meats just nearby.
It's too bad most of the nearby land is still owned by paper/mine/timber companies and not the people. And the land owned by the people is mostly neglected.

>>2810745
>The soul of what? Fat families wandering the sidewalks looking for something more to eat after they already stuffed their face? Tourists love shitting in the woods and tossing their T.P. in the shrubbery

I wonder what the shitlib who typed this spew looks like

>>2810915
post your own ugly grille then

>>2810126
Gatlinburg is a tourist trap shithole for people too obese to hike the national park, far from a comfy southern town

>>2811053
It's also like the ONLY place to get dinner driving to the highway after seeing the National Park.
>too obese to hike
it is a bit annoying you still have to climb a 300 ft paved ramp to get the best views at Kuwohi.
They don't put any more effort than they need to to make the trails accessible for avg fat Americans.

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>>2811053
>tourist trap

We still pretending that tourist trap slop isn't comfy as shit? Enjoy your 11 week backpacking trip in India, Preston.

>>2811069
Pigeon forge is 5 minutes past it and is comparatively a real town. Every time I drove back into the park the traffic through Gatlinburg was nightmarish and the sidewalks were full of fat people with turkey legs. It's like a cartoon portrayal of Americans. I shoulda rode the alpine coaster there but didn't cause I'm retarded

>>2811260
>Every time I drove back into the park the traffic through Gatlinburg was nightmarish
t. too stupid to use a bypass

>>2811260
they both are traps

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Gatlingburg is a tourist trap but Appalachia is one of the most beautiful places on earth bar none, especially during autumn. I went to college there. If heaven is real it probably resembles Appalachia.

What I wouldn't give to be 21 again, drunk and making out with cute girls at Halloween parties, cruising down those winding country roads and blasting Have a Nice Life.

>>2811633
yeah, that sounds nice

>>2810097
That is correct OP, even if the town is a little tacky.

I've been all throughout the US, and the tiny area between Gatlinburg, TN & Asheville NC is the most soulful area of these here United States. The Smoky Mountains, the rolling hills, the hospitality. Ain't nothing better.

>>2812794
actually the part north and west of that up and over on the other side of the cumberland front is much prettier

I think it's a shit hole desu. Been to maybe a dozen national parks and it was by far the least memorable or interesting. Pigeon Hole and Gatlinburg are the biggest tourist traps I've ever crossed in my travels, massive tacky shit holes filled with overpriced horrible food and worthless junk.

Also the South sucks in general with the heat and bugs not sure how anyone can stand living south of West Virginia.

>>2810137
Mount Le Conte rises 5300 vertical feet above the town of Gatlinburg. That's pretty fucking impressive for the East Coast.

>>2810915
>everyone who doesn't like muh tourist trap town is a heckin liberal!
Let me guess, you also love Myrtle Beach.
>>2811246
LMAO, you do
Northern states >>> southern states
They're whiter, cleaner, prettier, and comfier in summer.

>>2812948
they should build a road to the top

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>>2810126
>gatlinBURG is......le good!

>>2814335
It's not so much that Gatlinburg itself is great, it's just sort of a destination of least resistance if you are traveling to the high mountains from the I-81/40 corridor - but that said, within an hour or two's drive - there's a lot to see.

>>2811246
I unironically love kitschy tourist trap slop like Pigeon Forge, Myrtle Beach, the Jersey Shore, Orlando, Vegas, Branson, etc. I do enjoy natural beauty as its own separate thing but there is something about the kinetic energy and LED lights of tourist traps that subconsciously wills me to consoom. Margaritaville hotel, giant fiberglass animals and objects, huge Ferris wheel with LED lights, Paula Deen, Guy Fieri and Gordon Ramsay restaurants, massive gift shops, obstacle courses and go karts, gem mining, water park hotels, etc. Yes please. You others can go vacation in third world shitholes and get parasites from the local cuisine. Or maybe they prefer to hike several miles and sleep in a little uncomfortable cuck tent surrounded by bugs and animals. I’m the guy who will pull up next to them in a camper and keep them up all night with my generator

>>2811246
>>2814414
Absolutely based

>>2814414
you know, I think the mountains of the eastern US could have WAY better touristic infrastructure without it having to be kitschy and cheesy and overly commercialized. You just have to fix up the roads and the trails, clear the views from the overlooks, and add better signage.
>I’m the guy who will pull up next to them in a camper and keep them up all night with my generator
I can imagine the sound in my head

>>2814452
And people will still want to stay there in luxury cabins with LED hot tubs and pools and arcades. Many people like the kitschy tourist trap shit. If they didn’t, it wouldn’t be there. It’s like the difference between tent campers and RV campers. Tent campers complain about RVs and generators and camp sites decked out in fairy lights but those people are still camping. They’re just doing it in style with the comforts of home. Where is the fun of being miserably uncomfortable in a shitty tent? No thanks. I want to piss on your tents, especially when these pretentious assholes show up in touristy RV parks like a KOA or Jellystone. I would be surprised if their tents didn’t get pissed on

>>2811246
I went to Gatlinburg twice as a kid. It's fine when you're 11. But as an adult, it's a sad place to visit. And I understand the nostalgia for Myrtle Beach. I went as a kid too. But having grown up and seen more of the world, I really can't go back. I take adult vacations now. Once you've stayed at the Grand Wailea in Maui, it's hard to go back to the Motel 6 in Myrtle.

>>2814597
hawaii seems like the worst sort of "you are trapped in an overpriced brown people zone where they exist to be the servants of wealthy white families"

>>2810097
Why

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>>2814600
That's the best kind of vacation. :) I want to be served by poor brown people in every way possible.

Wailea is really just mega-resorts. It's the perfect idyllic Hawaii you see on TV. "Overpriced" is relative. When I went, we found a massive 2 bedroom condo across from the beach for $230/night. We rented a car and drove all over the Island. We had a kitchen, so we cooked a few meals at home and then splurged on a few expensive dinners. We also stayed 3 nights at the grand Wailea just to mix it up. But the prices have doubled since we were there 7 years ago. I haven't been back.

>>2814597
I’ve never stayed in a motel 6 in my life. Those aren’t for vacations they’re for cheap stops to sleep in a bed while on a long road trip. What do you consider an adult vacation aside from your Hawaii example? Traveling to brownville or gookville and getting a blowjob from a little man dressed as a woman? I’ll take Gatlinburg and Myrtle Beach any day, thank you. You fucking weirdos with your exotic brown destinations for sex are just degenerate fetishist perverts. Because let’s be serious that’s likely what you really mean by “adult” vacation

>>2815013
I know a lot of autists frequent this board, and I understand that they like predictable, familiar vacations. But I get genuinely sad when I hear of adults going on vacation to Disney. Why not go to the actual place where the magic castle and fake buildings in Disney were designed to look like? Go see the actual Matterhorn, Neuschwanstein castle, Colmar France, Bryce Canyon, etc.

It's obvious that you haven't traveled much if you think Gatlinburg is the pinnacle of travel. Your retarded worldview is based on very limited experience. If you like kitchy towns, you should get out of your comfort zone and go explore some new places. I'm heading to Amsterdam, Ghent, Bruges and Paris next month.

>>2815094
>btw I have money to visit Europe
America is cheaper to travel to :^)

there's better nature and there's better consumerism in countless other shitty US destinations. you can't even say it's cheap because you're gonna get nickel and dimed everywhere because cheap places have no scruples. but hey, at least it's not Branson I guess.

>>2815112
The nature, again, is not right *in* Gatlinburg, but if you go 1-2 hours outside - there's lots of less cheesy things to see.

>>2815113
I'm not retarded, I live in the states. I know how municipalities work. I stand by what I said. Additionally: kill yourself.

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>>2815108
America isn't always cheaper. If you're going coast to coast in the US, you're paying $350+. A roundtrip flight to Europe from NYC, Chicago, or LAX is $500. When you get to Europe, the food is cheaper, there are decent cheap hotels and you don't need a car. A 1 week Disney Vacation is way more expensive than 2 weeks in any country in Europe.

My flight roundtrip this time was $480 from LAX to Amsterdam. I went to Madrid last year for $460 roundtrip.

>>2815112
I used to do a lot of National Parks in the US when I was in my 20's. You can do them really cheaply if you camp. A yearly pass that includes the entrance fee to every US national park is $80. Most national parks have campgrounds for less that $50 a night. In Utah, you can camp for free on pretty much any BLM land. The whole state is practically BLM land. You could go to Utah and do Zion, Bryce, Arches, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands and spend weeks camping for free right outside the parks. But you want to go to Gatlinburg....

>>2815112
Take the stick out of your ass

>>2810097
City is a dump the trails rock though

>>2815094
I never said Gatlinburg was the pinnacle of travel. And look at you not even going anywhere good just a bunch of tourist cities full of brown rapeugees. Paris is a fucking shithole. You have no right to criticize somebody liking tourist destinations and kitsch in the US when you list off a bunch of major cities in Belgium or fucking Paris. That’s not really any different than somebody going to Pigeon Forge except they don’t natively speak English and you’ll get robbed by Turks or gypsies. Now if you said you’re going to rural Italy near Umbria that would be a bit different but you’re just doing the European equivalent of “thing” vs “thing + Japan” and being a tourist in Europe instead of being a tourist in the US. So here’s your (You) and say hi to Muhammad for us

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>>2815244

Comparing Paris to Pigeon Forge is one of the more ludicrous things I've ever read on this board. You're completely out of touch with reality. :) You need to get out more.

I've actually put off doing Paris for a long time. I've been to France twice and I never did Paris. I did a road trip a few years ago and hit a lot of smaller places in the south. We drove all over Provence. We did Aix, Gourdes, Cassis, Nimes, Arles, Orange, the Pont du Gard, La Ciotat, Roussillon and Avignon. French bakeries, wine from country side vineyards, the massive cathedrals, Roman ruins, the little seaside towns on the Riviera, the chateaus, the ruined castles, the abbeys....These are things you can't experience in Pigeon Forge my brother.

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>>2815132
I don't fly they added too many humiliation rules.
>disney
that's not a fair comparison Disney is premium priced
you can string together a cheap road trip with motels or airbnb in the US for not a lot of money especially if you rent places with kitchens and cook your meals.

>These are things you can't experience in Pigeon Forge my brother.

they have ruined castles though

>>2815278
Good for you, faggot. Point still stands that Paris is now a third world shithole with more browns than whites and you’re still a fucking city tourist. The romantic idealized Paris doesn’t exist, it’s a shithole. But I’m glad you enjoyed getting fucked in the ass by a big black Nigerian baguette. You think anybody actually cares what non-American cities and places you’ve been to? Selfies with Roman ruins? A traveloor map with all the places you’ve been? That that somehow makes you better than an American watching a dinner show in a fiberglass arena that looks like a caricature of Roman ruins? Who is having more fun? Them or you who can’t help but interrupt the conversation and tell them why their vacation is shit compared your traveloos? You know there are some beautiful stuff over here too. Different scenic wine areas you never heard because the locals weren’t brown and didn’t speak Arabic and French. West Virginia and Kentucky have areas that look like god’s country… but you don’t care because you can’t socially brag about going there the same way. You can keep your “adult vacations” again we know what that actually means (especially on this board)

>>2815324
There are a lot beautiful places in the US far outside of cities. I don’t just mean national parks either though Pigeon Forge is next to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and there is a lot of natural beauty there and trails and different varieties of cabins (both the rustic type and the luxury type). Even in Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg proper there are a lot of nice scenic views and newer cideries and wineries (used to be a dry area) and I don’t just mean just the ones in the touristy districts. There is nothing wrong with the kitschy tourist slop either. It’s Americana and can be charming in its own right especially the vintage stuff. But you’re right you can take a long road trip and stay at cheap hotels and see all kinds of beautiful places. Unless you’re a pretentious snob who doesn’t consider that traveling because you’re staying inside of your own country despite the fact that it’s massive and there is no way that snob has even seen a fraction of it

>>2815364
I have family in Kentucky. I've explored every corner of the state and Indiana too. My brothers are really into hiking and caving. I've done dozens of wild caves. I've kayaked on the rivers. I've hiked the gorges. They're fun. I love it there. But the French Alps shred Kentucky in every conceivable way. It's not even debatable.

>>2815441
bait

>>2815441
>I have family in Kentucky.
t. jd vance
>and Indiana too
What's there to see in Indiana? I'm unfamiliar.
>I've hiked the gorges.
have you done star gap to cruise liner rock?
>But the French Alps shred Kentucky in every conceivable way
dry and boring

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>>2815491
I have done the red River gorge, several times actually. The best thing about the gorge is Miguel's Pizza afterwards.

Indiana has a lot of wild cave systems. A lot of them were closed off or restricted for years because of the white nose syndrome that the bats get. They're in a caving group, so they know all the spots. Clifty Falls in Madison is a cool spot. Cool little town too.

But comparing the dinky Red River Gorge to Chamonix??!!! That's almost as dumb as Paris and Pigeon Forge. You go to France and take the gondola up to the Aiguille du Midi and then come back and tell me you think the red river gorge is better.

>>2815498
>I have done the red River gorge
that's not what I asked
have you done star gap to cruise liner rock?

>>2815498
Go move to Europe and get the fuck out of my country. You’re a pretentious traveloor snob. Again you’re that fucking basedjak meme where river America = cringe while same river Europe = giant onions mouth and excitement. Throw some rocks around it and say it’s a Roman wall and you’ll blow your entire load. Don’t forget to mark it off your social media map for everybody to see where you’ve been travelooing to. If Pigeon Forge was in Europe you would be singing its praises and bragging about travelooing there.

I love the touristy slop like I said earlier. Unironically. But I’ve been on a winery tour in the Finger Lakes area of NY and also in a winery tour of Northwestern Michigan. Rolling hills. Water. Nature. Beautiful. Beautiful bays and shores up there in Michigan along the Great Lakes. On the way we stayed at some inland lake that was shallow and calm and had beautiful clear green tinted water. And aside from a few rainbow flags up in Northwestern Michigan and a few obvious fags, everybody was normal and white. No brownoids. It was beautiful. The whole country is full of these kinds of places. Hidden and not so hidden gems. Western Florida has beaches consistently ranked among the best in the world even over Hawaii. Glacier National Park is incredible. Along the way to all of our natural beauty and tourist destinations you can stay in a wigwam hotel or the worldest largest potato. You can visit a museum in Philly with the world’s largest diseased colon. I love the kitsch. I love theming. Doesn’t mean I still don’t love nature, I’ve been on trails not far from Gatlinburg that take you to springs with waterfalls on top of rock shelves. And a lot of this is free and costs nothing. Go move to your precious Europe and marry a brown nippled Muslim woman or a negress. Or a big black Nigerian dude if you’re into that. There are plenty of them over there especially in France

>>2815592
>But I’ve been on a winery tour in the Finger Lakes area of NY
finger lakes seems nice if you have money
BUT all the prettiest views of the lakes from above are totally inaccessible unless you own a mansion there - they make no effort to give tourists good views of the lakes from above

>>2815592
I had to stand up and give a crisp salute to this post because its the fucking President of the United States from a time before the 21st century.

>>2815702
I guess this was supposed to be funny

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>>2815592
You act like I haven't seen anything in the US. I've been to western Florida many times. My parents owned a condo in Miramar beach. It's a very pretty beach and the food is very good. I've also done about half the National Parks out west, but not Glacier because it's too out of the way. Yosemite is one of the best places I've ever been. But we weren't talking about Yosemite or Glacier. You're talking about a puny creek dripping off a rock shelter in Tennessee and then an afternoon of fun in Pigeon Forge and comparing that to the Alps and Paris. I can tell that your autism is pretty severe, so I doubt you'll ever see much of the world. It makes me sad for you.

>>2815504
If I did cruise liner rock, I don't remember it by name. We did most of the major hikes in the gorge. I've been 3 times. I'm looking at photos of that hike and it looks like every other hike in the gorge.

>>2815720
There you go again with MUH PARIS, a shtihole city full of North and Sub Saharan Africans, Turks, and Poojeets. Paris is also full of a significant number of muslims who have contributed to crimes and terrorist attacks. Imagine a European coming to the US and bragging about visiting NYC or San Fagcisco. I don’t give a fuck about the Alps or travelooing, I would rather see the Disneyland Matterhorn than the actual thing because again I love the touristy slop. YOU are the one with severe autism because of your travelooing fetish. That’s an autism spectrum trait especially earlier in the thread naming off everything like you did.

>>2815694
This was true for some of the wineries but there were some with nice views of the hills and vineyards and water. The wineries in northwest Michigan (lower peninsula near traverse city) had amazing views of the water, even the ones not on the water had amazing views

>>2815720
Also I just want to point out how much of a fucking pretentious asshole you are to make fun of a ”puny creek” waterfall. Why does it matter? There was a small lake at the bottom we swam in and the rocks and waterfall were beautiful. There was nobody else there most of the time. You would have to hate life and nature to not enjoy it. “Sigh… it’s not as nice as what life seen on my traveloos to Paris”. I guess it needs more hijab for your liking.

>>2810122
oy vey, what a joke!

>>2816004
there's a whole bunch of 100 + ft waterfalls in the southern appalachians - but many of them are quite difficult to access

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>thread about appalachia
>resident cheese-eating surrender monkey completely derails the entire thread to be about france

>>2816144
I mean the internet in general never shuts up about how Europe/Western America mogs Appalachia and if you try to talk about it they do that - it's just not just /trv/

>>2816147
Yeah /out/ is famous for completely derailing threads about the east coast

>>2816144
We're trying to get these autists to stop going to sad old Gatlinburg. This is a travel forum. You should expand your horizons. There is more to see and experience in the world than pirate themed mini-golf, Carl's Jr, and a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum.

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>>2816142
Nashville actually has some great waterfalls outside the city. You can drive less than an hour and hit Burgess Falls, Cummins Falls and Great falls. There's a lot of great cabin rentals up in that area. We did a group trip up there one winter a few years ago.

>>2816151
How packed is it though? That's always my fear with shit around TN/SC is it's tourist hell

>>2816149
They don't have Carl's Jr. in that region of the country

>>2816153
>>2816149
Looks like someone just outed themselves as a westie

>>2816142
They’re not large and over stimulating enough for Mr. Paris. Not enough tourists taking pictures.

>>2816152
I went in the winter. We had the entire place to ourselves at Burgess and Cummins.

>>2816153
They have Hardees which is a 10X worse version of an already terrible fast food restaurant.

>>2816162
>They have Hardees
I accept your concession.

>>2816149
The Smokies are beautiful and are the original tourist attraction in the area and still the main draw. The touristy stuff is there to give tourists something to do. Especially if you have kids (which for the majority of this board I realize is an alien concept). Kids get bored easily and can’t go on long hikes. Things like Anakeesta and the haunted house and Dollywood and all the stuff at Pigeon Forge are perfect for traveling families. It’s pretty easy to get to for anybody east of the Mississippi where the majority of our population lives. It can also be very affordable since there are so many hotels. The ones in Sevierville are cheaper. Or you can travel with multiple families and share a fancy cabin. It’s also worth going to regardless of season although summer is their peak season.

>>2816162
Is there really a difference anymore? Everything comes from the same supplier. They have less menu items because some of the stuff they cross introduced flopped but it’s all the same ingredients.

>>2816164
summer in the smokies sucks - its too damn hot

>>2815112
>but hey, at least it's not Branson I guess.
Branson is overhated. A friend let us use their timeshare a few years ago and I was dreading going there but wound up really liking it. The biggest critics of Branson, like that travel writer who called it the worst city to travel to, are all jewish. You gotta remember they’re essentially vampires who get triggered by any Christian symbolism which is why they secularist Christmas. The Christian stuff wasn’t bad at all. The Ozarks were nice, they have a theme park called Silver Dollar City which has the same owners as Dollywood and I liked it better. Table Rock Lake was nice. The tourist slop was like Pigeon Forge, I liked it. They had a shopping plaza and mountain coasters. It’s obviously fallen on hard times with some things closed and the shows are all expensive. Some of the locals have that Arkansas attitude where they come off as rude but they’re not actually rude. I had a great time. Not easy to get to though, we drove 12 hours

>>2816167
All I know is that the last time I ate a burger from Carl's Jr, I had wet green diarrhea.

>>2816185
any views?

>>2816190
Yeah there are nice views. Maybe not so much on the Branson strip but off of it for sure. The terrain is very hilly, large hills that are part of the Ozark range. They look like the smaller parts of the Appalachians (and are thought to be geologically related to them, cut off by the Mississippi River basin is one theory).

If jews didn’t have a monopoly on Hollywood and journalism and the press, there wouldn’t be so much hate spewed toward Branson.

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>>2816004
Enjoy your pirate golf. LOL.

>>2816220
None of that shit on the left interests me and Pirate’s Cove Mini Golf is based. Smuggler’s Cove in Florida even has live alligators.Try again, faggot. I’ve also got kids. Which Eiffel Tower do you think they want to see? The one in Paris surrounded by muslims and trash or the one at Kings Dominion surrounded by amusement park rides?

>>2816220
AI slop. Gaanurang? Mirbob Maze?
>show mirbobs

Ok faggots I'll help you out and be the tie breaker. Gattlingburg and Paris are two of the biggest shit holes in the entire developed world.

Just go to Utah or Idaho or an interesting country that isn't in Europe.

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>>2816282
I've been to every corner of Utah. I love it. Arches is one of my favorite parks. I went snowboarding and hiking in Utah this year in February. I had a great time. But it can't hold a candle to the Alps. The runs in Chamonix are 5 times longer. The food is 10 times better. The nightlife is 100 times better. The towns in France have history and culture. There's just no comparison.

The dude in the thread who's having a mental breakdown is mad that we're doing Amsterdam, Utrecht, Ghent and Paris instead of Pigeon Forge. Have you ever been to Ghent or Bruges?

Stop taking the bait dumbass

>>2816213
>Yeah there are nice views
Can you tell me where they are?
darn those tricky jews!

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>>2810097
So I just read through all the posts ITT because I also love places like Gatlinburg, Branson, Wisconsin Dells, St. Augustine, FL, the beaches of southern Maine, the Jersey Shore and all manner of kitsch, vintage tourism and roadside attraction related stuff. I actually happen to be somewhat of an intellectual authority of sorts on the subject. I'm writing a book, working on a google maps project documenting over 15,000 locations in the US with cultural or historical relevance and I am also a content creator with a lifelong passion for all this stuff.
This kind of stuff is so culturally underappreciated that it's sickening. I've been to many other countries and there is nothing out there that is quite like what we have in the US, and definitely not on the quantity or scale of what's out there. We are very blessed to have all the thousands of vintage drive-ins, amusement parks, quirky museums, muffler men and large fiberglass objects along the highways, tourist traps and destinations full of all the above and more. Not only does it make the US more fun to live in and travel to, especially if you only consider that stuff a side extra to all the national parks, mountain ranges and coastlines etc. it also makes traveling in the US a deeply cultural experience that is misunderstood thanks to unwarranted pretentiousness like the joker ITT who thinks Paris and all the obvious places that people compare the US to Europe to are objectively better for having good travel experiences. The problem is most people are doing it all wrong. Try setting a destination for yourself in the US for something interesting and unique like my picrel (House on the Rock in WI) and look for other cool stuff to check out along the route to get there and you will discover the real American travel experience from our previous generations that you can still have today.

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>>2816339
And its something you can't experience anywhere else in the world. Some of this stuff might as well be a masterpiece of architecture like you idealize in your European countries. House on the Rock for example is like walking through a cultural renaissance surrealist fever dream and beats the hell out of standing in line to take a selfie with the mona lisa at the louvre. Even on the flipside, the tackiness of a vintage mini golf like Goofy Golf in Panama City or Par-King in Illinois mogs any of the touristy stuff in Europe especially on fun factor let alone celebrating white heritage and culture. Kitsch is our culture in the US and it should be way more appreciated and celebrated by seasoned travelers than it is, but the pretentiousness of hating on that stuff like you're some sort of Anthony Bourdain wannabe with a need to have his opinion validated has blinded you to the fact that the US has the most fun things to go out and do than any other nation on earth. Of course if you are a miserable person you will not have fun doing that, but i promise you won't have fun at tourist spots around the world either, because most of them are devoid of fun, and the beauty is ruined by 1,000 non-white tourists and immigrant locals everywhere you go. At least all the stuff to do in the US is in such abundance and so spread out that you can enjoy things in peace and serenity especially if you are roadtripping to the parks with fun stuff in between. Nothing, absolutely nothing beats a road trip in the US filled with quirky vintage fun and roadside motels with all your meals at diners and drive-ins. Going to sights in Europe is the real soulless shit and once you've done that and the Americana travel experience you will finally swallow the kitschpill.

>>2816341
I hate kitsch. You could have genuine elegant art or like cool shit to do like they could turn the mountains into automated electric trains or slides or other fun shit instead of just terrible fiberglass sculptures. America can be fun and elegant instead of just blindly worshipping what's already there. America has so much beauty and potential - it's really underutilized.

>>2816339
>>2816341
Fair points but use paragraphs

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>>2816343
The mountains have enough of your wet dream style stuff as it is. We have mountain coasters, aerial trams and ski resorts everywhere.
>blindly worshipping what's already there
isn't that the whole point of travel? to see the stuff that has been appreciated by the past generations of travellers and tourists? the real beauty of America lies in it's past, because the present version of this country is actual dystopia by comparison. So being able to recapture the nostalgia of the past through countless sights and attractions, whether natural or man-made is what makes this country unique and special. There just isn't as big of an assortment of things to easily enjoy in most of the rest of the world. We have everything conveniently located along our highways and byways with plenty of hotels, motels and good airbnbs in between. And we have a mix of old and new, with something for everyone almost everywhere you go. We've got the parks, we've got the museums and we've got the tourist stuff, and we've got by far the largest selection of dining options in every city and town compared to anywhere else in the world. To act like the US isnt one of the best countries in the world to travel is disingenuous. It's just an angle Americans like to take to convince themselves that the grass is greener elsewhere when it's really not. The big cities in Europe in 2025 are just as dangerous as they are here, and the cost of traveling to the "beautiful" hike-able places in Europe compared to the US is a major difference with the US winning in value by a massive margin. The cost of gas and lodging alone makes road tripping in other parts of the world essentially undoable. Road trips are the ultimate form of travel and tourism in the US was built on it so that's why we worship what's already here because it's fucking awesome. If it wasn't such a great travel experience people wouldnt be coming from all over the world to do a Route 66 road trip or drive cross-country between coasts.

>>2816350
>We have mountain coasters, aerial trams and ski resorts everywhere.
no not really
my vision is FREE
everything should be done with a public-private partnership
put ads on the train cars or signs for your plastic or logging company on the entrance
and you should have a big donation box for cash as well as a clear sign to let people donate through Venmo or otherwise online

I don't mean coasters I mean rides that are
a) integrated into the landscape
and
b) serve as a physical means to get you from one point to another - from bottom to top of holler - or going along a ridge to an overlook and back - for example

there's too many obstructed overlooks, abandoned railroad paths, and crumbling fire towers - all of it could be restored and not even for that much money

>>2816339
>>2816341
Great posts. I agree. There should be no shame in enjoying it or admitting you enjoy it.

>>2816350
I disagree with you on dining and cost. The appeal of traveling abroad is the quality of food and accomodations you can get for the cost (assuming you choose the right place).

The the price i paid to get a crappy motel in Jackson Hole I could have had a White Lotus style resort in Thailand or even Japan at one of their parks. You can go to Michelin star restaurants and get dinner and multiple drinks for two for less than you would spend at a McDonald's in America.

I agree with you America is unmatched for travel and outside of some cultural stuff there's no reason to ever leave, except for the value. And quality of service is also usually vastly superior.

>>2816407
But I am very interested in your Google map post that shit.

>>2816407
>pays hundreds of dollars to travel to a foreign country just to save a few bucks at a restaurant rated by a tire company

>>2816426
One day of savings on food and lodging will cover the airfare.

>>2816430
That greatly depends on where (and when) you go. I don’t care about anything in Asia except Japan and even though you mentioned Japan all the places I would go there are not cheap. I also have zero interest in making multiple connecting flights with layovers and commuting by train for part of the trip. And I don’t travel alone

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>>2816430
>>2816442
As an American on the east coast, the cost of traveling to Asia still averages out to much more than traveling domestically due to airfare alone. The current exchange rate is the only reason Japan is cheap once you get there. China and South Korea are some of the most expensive countries all around and SE Asia has always been cheap but isn't that much better than Florida or going on a cruise to the caribbean islands.

Food is not as expensive in the US compared to other countries as people claim. Yes inflation has caused prices to rise for some things but there are still plenty of good value options especially if you dont mind eating drive-in slop. Even some fast food chains like Cook Out in the south offer a crazy amount of food for $7 or $8. You can pick a main entree item, two sides and a large drink or milkshake and if you pick the right sides you can even feed two people with that much. Obviously you are going to pay a lot to eat at a restaurant with inflated menu prices and expected gratuity added. You basically get what you pay for here and if you want expensive quality food there are many options and if you want cheap slop there are endless options.
In Japan it's pretty much the same. You can go to Mos Burger and get a $4 sandwich or a ramen shop and have an $8 meal but if you want a steak or sushi you are paying easily as much as you would in the US, probably more at most places.
Europe is extremely overrated with food, especially in tourist areas which are the only places accessible to most tourists.
Even in Italy, Neapolitan pizza isnt even that good and the pasta dishes you get most places arent much better than a decent trattoria in US cities. Go to Germany, France and Scandinavia and eat some of the most bland BS imaginable. And food is quite pricey in those countries. SE Asia and places with street food vendors are really the only countries where the value of the food for what you're paying is a significant difference.

>>2816442
For sure you gotta do your research and this doesn't hold true everywhere, but there's a ton of amazing destinations that are dirt cheap compared to the US. I was just saying the US certainly isn't any sort of discount or even good value imo although the offerings are top notch.

Everywhere in Japan should be way cheaper than their US counterparts. I was in Tokyo for my honeymoon and had a work conference in Manhattan the week after getting back. For the price of two cocktails in Manhattan my wife and I had a massive amazing meal and about six cocktails between us in the heart of Shibuya. Just no comparison. I know Manhattan is a massive shithole and it felt like being in a third world country after Tokyo but that is a top travel destination for a lot of people especially those abroad and the costs are asinine for the quality/experience offered.

>>2816451
You could be right about the exchange rate being the cause. I have only recently started traveling abroad and Japan was the first destination. Up till then I also thought there was no point of leaving the country but it changed my stance. Thailand is also very cheap and much better quality and some areas in Mexico. I'm planning a trip to Merida currently and it's way cheaper than anything I could do in the US and the flights are cheap.

It seems the Mediterranean area is also a high quality to price destination although the flights there probably erode the savings it seems very hard to get to.

>>2816452
Tokyo is still expensive AF. Maybe not compared to NYC but who wants to go to NYC? If you’re chasing the tire company restaurants, most US states don’t have a Michelin chapter so there is a lot of NYC and LA but those cities should be avoided; they’re shitholes with a high cost of living so everything is expensive.

>>2816451
I recently went to mammoth cave and ate at a barbecue restaurant with pork shoulder steaks (local speciality) and it was amazing and cheap. As cheap as fast food. There are lots of cool kitschy tourist stuff in that area although one of the classic attractions (guntown mountain) is sadly closed, possibly for good. One of the three remaining wigwam villages is nearby. Only did one cave tour, frozen Niagara. Pretty neat

>>2816453
its cheap cuz its dangerous and brown

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>>2816539
Nooooooooo! You can’t enjoy a man-made mountaintop and treetop park, mountain coasters, a walkable eating and shopping district, an amusement park themed to Dolly Parton with cinnamon bread, or kitschy tourist corridors with restaurants and pirates golf and gem mining. You can’t enjoy indoor and outdoor waterparks! You can’t stay in luxury cabins in the mountains! You must go to Paris and get robbed and stabbed by the New Parisians or travel to gookland and eat at tire company approved restaurants with noodle, meat and egg soup

>>2816534
Second safest city in North America after Quebec.

>>2816543
those things are fine - but it could be so much more it could be nice and creative and not just cheesy slop for little kids

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>>2816561
Are you really trying to tell me a ride where you're in a subway during an earthquake and gorillas in crates break loose and rubber rats fall on you from the ceiling isn't creative?

>>2816566
Good lord. That's the saddest thing I've read all day.

I'm almost hesitant to jump in here because I think the one guy who's shilling Pigeon Forge might legitimately kill himself if I say anything negative about his favorite holiday vacation. But I do think it's a dull and uninspired place to take a trip. Especially if you only get one vacation a year. Surely there are better options on a the same budget? If the idea was to have a mindless holiday with your kids, wouldn't you just go to Disney? or some theme park? The beach?

>>2816566
yeah, you could incorporate the outdoors and have mini trains running around the rim of a gorge - that's what I want

>>2816451
"Bland BS imaginable"
How would you know though? You've obviously never been to those countries because you hate them so much. You're just talking out of your ass bro.

>>2816584
I mean the best thing to do is go on an outdoor vacation and find fun hikes but that requires actual effort to plan.

>>2816584
Disney costs a LOT more

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>>2816586
enjoy your fischbrotchen, boiled cabbage dishes and everything having starch and carbs with minimal flavor.

>>2816603
the bread looks kinda crappy but there's nothing inherently wrong with a fish sandwich - the one where the fish is breaded and fried and then marinated in spiced vinegar sounds good

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>>2816730
You're probably thinking of backfisch which is basically the german version of fish and chips but not nearly as good as what you'd get in scotland or southern britain. and you can get good fish and chips all over the US.
The most disappointing things I've eaten in Germany were all the sausages I tried. When you order a bratwurst you get this tiny piece of crappy bread and the sausages all have a strange earthy taste that is reminiscent of dishwater and is off-putting and gross. Weisswurst is one of the worst tasting meat products by far. Currywurst is the dumbest fusion nonsense, its like the equivalent of people putting ketchup on spaghetti and Germans should be ashamed for serving it at every authentic eatery when the browns have taken over to the point that 80% of all the food in Germany are middle eastern shawarmas and doners. I mean i guess i dont blame the shitskins for not wanting to eat german food because it sucks. But it's oddly dystopian that the vast majority of food in Germany are cookie cutter doner shops that are literally everywhere you go. A shitty country with shitty food that I'm sure was once good but like the rest of the world has been taken over and ruined by non-whites.

>>2816801
I didn't save the picture with all the different German fish sandwiches but it was definitely on their - it was like brat something?

>the sausages all have a strange earthy taste
marjoram?
I don't care for it either.

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>>2816603
The first thing I ate in France on my trip was this Indian inspired lamb chop dish. It was one of the best meals I've ever eaten in my life. No clue what spice they put on that, or how they grilled it, but I dream about that lamb. I don't think they serve that at the Cracker Barrel in Pigeon Forge.

Remember:
Don't take the bait.

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>>2816911
>indian inspired lamb chop
>french cuisine
of course it's bait, but i'll take it anyway to point out that most people would much rather have southern bbq in pigeon forge or even the food at dollywood than eat fake ass curry rubbed shit like that. you probably got smoked on the price of that gay dish too. here in America the only indian-inspired shit we're eating is thanksgiving dinner. go on with your poo poo platter

>>2816933
I've had some pretty terrible BBQ in the south. Unless they are smoking it on site and serving it to you right after you can't trust it - too much non-smoked and/or dried out bbq.

>>2817094
I wouldn't go to any BBQ place that doesn't have a pit on site

>>2817158
It's hard to tell when you are driving around - I THOUGHT this place did - but I was deliriously tired from road tripping and the pulled pork kinda tasted smokey but the brisket (mistake!) clearly was not.
I found a place today with wood stacked up outside the store and the exhaust vent smelled right

>>2816933
You can get BBQ anywhere though. And that looks reheated. It was definitely not cooked that day. They put old brisket on a grill and warmed it up for you. You haven't experienced enough good food to know you're eating re-heated food.

You're stuck in a rut. You need to branch out and experience some new things. Your worldview can't be so small that you view fucking Pigeon Forge as the quintessential vacation. I travel a lot. And If I were creating a list of all the places I've ever been, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg would both be really close to the bottom. Off the top of my head, I don't even know what I would put lower. Maybe St Louis?

>>2817198
you know they have mountains NEAR pigeon forge and gatlinburg - in multiple directions - that have HUNDREDS of trails you can hike to waterfalls and views - the towns are there because of the trails - not the other way around

this bbq is real - it tastes like smoke not sure if it's apple or cherry wood though doesn't taste like hickory
I got a bbq burrito with burnt ends, mac and cheese, and baked beans.

>>2817198
I know this is just bait but in a lot of ways a trip to the smokies really is a quintessential American vacation. Southern charm and hospitality, mountains, Dolly Parton, bears, BBQ, large kitschy structures, miningolf and go karts, Cherokees, moonshine, Jesus, endless shopping and dining and hotel options, etc. That kinda shit is the soul of this country. Not NYC which pretends to be “America’s city” while having nothing in common with the rest of the country.

>>2817198
>>2817212
bot

>>2817212
I was filling up at a gas station in Appalachia yesterday and a man on a motorcycle pulled up to the adjacent pump. He was quite rotund, and wore a red sleeveless shirt with the text "love tits and shine" on it

>>2817213
You’re a bot
>>2817226
At least it wasn’t some homeless black trying to wash the windshield of your rental car in LA. Or a carjacker. Or some
obnoxious black talking on speaker phone and walking real slow inside to go buy lotto tickets. Although, I’m sure Appalachia has the lotto ticket problem with poor whites too

>>2817234
OH and this 14 year old dark skinned Mexican boy was going past me a couple times in a scooter cuz I was sitting outside cuz I had to do laundry and my cabin has no machines and the laundromat was stuffy inside and the AC unit machine was set to off cuz they are cheap and this teen kid is on a scooter and - in his most polite voice - asks me if I have a lighter

I did have a lighter but I said no cuz he was non white
also a woman in a cheap wig argued with the vending machine next to me for a solid few minutes before putting her quarters in
and most of the drifters here are white - but in bigger towns they are mostly black (though its both)
and you know you are in appalachia when random people are just walking down the highway
say a group of 4 blocking nearly a whole lane of a 55 speed limit road - 2 of them shirtless - all looking rough
>Although, I’m sure Appalachia has the lotto ticket problem with poor whites too
they shouldn't sell that shit
>some homeless black trying to wash the windshield of your rental car in LA
a guy in baltimore got killed by the forced squeegee people when he got in a fight with them a few years ago
I've never actually seen that in America - never going to the west coast tho - I have seen stuff like that in Mexico though

>>2817242
>I've never actually seen that in America
If you ever fly to LAX, rent a car from any of the nearby car rental places and gas it up on near the airport when returning it, you will see them. Now I just pay the overpriced gas fill up fee.

>>2811246
this looks like crap dude

>>2811246
also does that say Gay Dolphin Gift Cove? lol

>>2817788
I'm pretty sure I have tokens from the arcade lying around somewhere

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>>2817788
>Gay Dolphin
It's been there since the 1940s before the word was subverted. The MCM building facade facing the strand is exquisite and still looks the same 70 years later.
You used to be able to climb to the top of the tower which served as an overlook of the highway on one side and the ocean/beach on the other. It also used to have an amusement pier next to it and two blocks down was the legendary Pavilion amusement park. I was lucky enough to experience Myrtle at the end of it's golden era before the pavilion closed, and today most of the downtown/boardwalk area is unrecognizable compared to then, except for the Gay Dolphin Gift Cove thankfully.
The lack of appreciation this kind of stuff gets nowadays is sad to say the least. It's no wonder its all been disappearing throughout the US in the past 20 year when even a basket weaving travel board doesnt care, let alone the GP..

>>2817212
That sounds like a trip for someone with autism with the mental age of an 11 year old. Mini-golf? Go Karts? Have your balls not dropped?

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>>2817891
Nta but I like hiking, dining and sightseeing which are all great fulfilling activities, but I wouldnt call them "fun" per se. If you don't enjoy occasionally riding go-karts or roller coasters or playing golf or miniature golf then there's a good chance it's because you don't have friends. I mean getting food with people isnt a non-fulfilling social activity but I wouldnt call it fun. Everything else is better alone of with a partner, which you probably don't have either because all the tacky activities are more fun with them as well. Just admit that you are a curmudgeoned loner with no friends or happiness. Actually, you basically already did by admitting you hate doing fun things that require peers & friends or family. Enjoy being alone and miserable!

>>2817891
>>2817901
That kind of sentiment reminds me of the people who spend all day every day posting about how they hate specific vloggers like adam the woo on subreddits and the like. They are so pathetic and unhappy that they get salty about seeing someone enjoying life and obsess about it.

At that point you might as well consider jumping off a bridge because if it actually upsets you that you're incapable of finding happiness in life while others are doing it to the point that you have to pathetically attempt to bring others down to your level of perception about what people should and shouldnt enjoy doing, you might not even be worthy of co-existing in the world with the rest of us who live a happy life doing things we enjoy.

I see your kind, staying in hostels and trail shelters by yourself, creeping out all the girls and people with friends and acting awkward around anyone you encounter. Your presence as a tourist makes the rest of us uncomfortable, so if you are unhappy and want to attempt to make other people as unhappy as you then the next time you're at an overlook please by all means do us all a favor and get as close to the ledge as possible.

>>2817832
>I was lucky enough to experience Myrtle at the end of it's golden era before the pavilion closed
I got to do it once and I'm glad I did. It was when you could just walk in and enjoy the Pavilion and you paid by the ride. It's really a shame it's gone now and the land has yet to be redeveloped.

>>2816730
>where the fish is breaded and fried
obviously not the picrel

>>2817916
no

>>2817891
I don’t think about you at all

Pidgin forget and Gatlinburg are notoriously low class chincy tourist locations. Its been that way for decades. The only reason they exist is because of the 10/10 national parks like the Great smokies & Shanendoah.
I'm not knocking people who like the carny tacky tourist trap shit, but I would argue places like coney island Mytle Beach and the Jersey shore are better for that anyway. Call me a weeb idgaf but I think alot of the Showa era tourist traps in the same vein are better than PF and Gatlinburg.

Also to top it off pidgin forge and Gatlinburg are expensive as fuck.

>>2817967
shenandoah kinda sucks its stacked with jeets and chinks and is often full and you have to pay $30 to visit
the hiking is rocky and the views are decent at some of them but it pales in comparison to deeper in the mountains

>>2817967
>Pidgin forget and Gatlinburg are notoriously low class chincy tourist locations
>Also to top it off pidgin forge and Gatlinburg are expensive as fuck.
lol you ESL retards need to proofread and get your argument straight before posting

>>2817967
>showa era
Mysterious Mansion
Hillbilly Golf
Gatlinburg Space Needle
Ripley's
Glenstone Lodge
Gatlinburg Inn
>coney island and myrtle are better
Maybe if you don't mind homeless crackheads and blacks everywhere begging you for money and breaking into your car.
If you like touristy and tacky stuff, the top US tourist meccas and destination towns for whites:
York Beach, ME
White Mountains, NH
Pocono Mountains, PA
Lancaster, PA
Gettysburg, PA
Ocean City/Wildwood/Cape May, NJ
Rehoboth Beach/Lewes, DE
Harpers Ferry, WV
Natural Bridge, VA
Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
Blowing Rock/Cherokee/Maggie Valley, NC
Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN
Chattanooga, TN
Helen, GA
Savannah, GA
Gulf Shores, AL
Panama City Beach, FL
St. Augustine, FL
Tarpon Springs, FL
Sarasota, FL
Eureka Springs, AR
Branson, MO
Cave City, KY
Put-In-Bay, OH
Frankenmuth/Holland, MI
Mackinac Island, MI
Santa Claus, IN
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Brainerd, MN
Pella, IA
Dodge City, KS
Glenwood Springs, CO
Manitou Springs, CO
Tombstone, AZ
Temecula, CA
Santa Cruz Beach, CA
Salem, OR
Leavenworth, WA

Most of these places are near national or state parks and have hiking and dining. The tourist stuff is always just a side bonus, and you're dumb for hating on a place just because it's got that stuff.

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Oh wow, you went to Gatlinburg? Some people travel to Europe and stand in front of the Colosseum, wander through medieval cities, or sip wine in a vineyard that’s been around since the Romans. Meanwhile, you stood in line for an hour to buy a funnel cake and a T-shirt with a cartoon bear on it. Europe gives you centuries of history, art, and cultures that shaped the entire modern world. Gatlinburg gives you a miniature golf course shaped like a volcano. But hey, not everyone needs the Sistine Chapel. Some people are perfectly content with a wax museum and an all you can eat pancake buffet. Live your truth brother.

Don't reply to the bot

>>2817967
>The only reason they exist is because of the 10/10 national parks like the Great smokies
Of course that’s why they exist you fucking moron. And Pigeon Forge exists as it is because Gatlinburg was full and owned mostly by a small handful of families so Pigeon Forge was built up also for people visiting the Smokies. Orlando only exists because of Disney World and Vegas only exists because of legalized gambling and organized criminal casino owners back in the day. Who the fuck cares?

>>2818074
>bot
I went to Europe once. Big mistake. Three days in Paris and I learned two things: Europeans hate Americans, and the bread can double as a lethal weapon. Every museum felt like a test I didn’t study for, and every waiter looked at me like I took a shit on the Mona Lisa’s face. Europe is pretentious. Europe is exhausting.

Then I hit Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Ohhh, Gatlinburg doesn’t apologize. I rode a fake earthquake and lived. Played Hillbilly Mini Golf against a couple of cousin fuckers. Ate pancakes bigger than my head. Anakeesta had me floating through treetops like a squirrel on Adderall. Gatlinburg is chaos served with southern hospitality.

Europe wants respect. Gatlinburg wants joy. One makes you feel small, the other makes you feel alive, sticky, and slightly worried about your life choices. Europe gives you forced culture. Gatlinburg gives you adrenaline, fried Oreos, and the sweet, unpretentious thrill of knowing—yes, I am having the best day of my pathetic little life, and I'm okay with that

>>2818405
just seems cheesy

>>2818535
Gatlinburg is a pitiful waste of a vacation. No one above the age of 12 or with an IQ above 70 is going to enjoy it.

>>2818405
You learned all that in 3 days? Who goes to Europe for 3 days from the US? That makes no sense. sounds like a big old lie to me.

>>2818676
I mean, it's fine if you are just using it as a place to stay and there's lots of non-cheesy stuff in a day's drive - and also - if it RAINS - yeah, that's perfect, cheesy indoor attractions become magical on a rainy day - there's nothing else much fun to do on a rainy day in Appalachia.

>>2818677
>>2818702
You don't have to reply to bots you know

>>2818705
It's just weird that people can't grasp stuff exists outside the tourist towns themselves. I will say, rainy-day activities in most of Appalachia are decidedly lacking, and a lot of the stuff is very time limited (eg open specific days of the week at restricted hours like 1-4pm thu-sat)

>>2818677
They didn't go to Europe for 3 days. They went to Paris for 3 days.

>>2818768
No they didn't. Anyone shilling for Gatlinburg Tennessee has never been to Europe.

>>2818943
Shilling is how they paid for their European trip.

>>2818705
why don't you report the bot? it's also shitting up the southern cone thread

>>2818951
No chance. The dude who's posting in this thread shilling for Gatlinburg is borderline retarded. No one is paying for his opinion.

>>2818405
AI wrote this. You can always tell with the weird hyphens. No one writes like this " thrill of knowing—yes,"

Europe just isn’t a good place to travel to anymore. Almost all the countries in Europe have allowed infinity muslims in which has permanently altered their demographics and culture. Pork, alcohol, dairy, topless sunbathing, and homosexual faggots are all part of traditional European culture (among many other things) but incompatible with Muslims who will never assimilate. Entire cities like London and Paris are now brown and have an Arab culture and also Europe imported a lot of black African negroids that are mixing with their women and creating all sorts of hideous monstrosity mutts.

The best place to travel to in Europe is an airport that takes you to the US so you can connect to Knoxville and visit Gatlinburg.

>>2819020
That’s definitely not true anymore because a lot of European countries are homosexual paradises full of rainbows and AIDS. Also there is a long tradition of faggotry dating back to ancient times. Greeks used to infamously be boy lovers and keep boys for sex for example. Gay stuff is depicted in ancient art. The Spartans were “prison gay”. Etc.

>>2819001
Most marketing people are retarded. Doesn't stop them from getting paid.

>>2819026
Look, if you’re trying to argue that Europe isn’t a homosexual gay paradise, you’re going to lose. Gays are accepted, tolerated, worshipped, and universally loved and accepted in European countries more than anywhere else on the planet aside from a few random cities like San Fagcisco and Tel Aviv

>>2819016
>permanently altered their demographics and culture
White British still make up 74% of the population of the U.K. If you add in other European Whites then it would be in the 81%.
Meanwhile the White American population is 57%

>>2811246
Myrtle beach is tiny as fuck lmao wtf people are romanticizing it here

>>2819078
What’s the white percentage of London? What’s the white percentage of Paris? The US is almost the size of Europe and has less than half the population. European states like France, the UK, Sweden, and Germany will be Islamic republics in about 50 years. The muslims are outbreeding the whites. Meanwhile native Europeans aren’t doing shit except passing laws to punish anybody who notices or criticizes it. Their population is a weak feminized collective of cucks. What’s the most popular boys name in the UK? Mohamed. What’s the most popular food? Donar Kebab. There shouldn’t be ANY non-whites in these countries. They’re not the US. Why are there black Africans in fucking Sweden? Who let them in?

>>2819189
Gatlinburg is even smaller than Myrtle Beach. What’s your point?

>>2819023
Have we gotten to the point in this thread where you stop pretending that you've been to Europe?

>>2819243
I've been to Europe and I prefer Appalachia!

>>2819234
Theodor Blank didn't want the Turks in Germany but the United States literally forced Germany to let them in because of muh NATO.

>>2819243
Where did I pretend I’ve been to Europe? I technically have been to Europe for work, over a decade ago I went to Slovakia and had a layover in Ireland but I never went anywhere or did anything while I was there. And if I do ever take a vacation to Europe it will be to rural Italy nowhere near a fucking city full of muslims and brown “people” and I would absolutely never go anywhere near Paris which is a third world shithole that’s objectively worse than St. Louis or Detroit.

>>2819270
Germany is a banana republic who along with Japan continues to pay an annual ransom fee just to be a member of the UN because they both “lost” WW2. They also continue to pay holocaust reparations to Israel even though the holocaust never happened. The place is a joke and all the good Germans fled or were killed in and after WW2

>>2819273
There must be something nice in St Louis. The part of Detroit near Wayne State University seemed not so bad and there were some hipster cafes.

>>2819234
>Who let them in?
It was probably the Chinese

>>2819257
>t. went to canada and thought it was europe

>>2819354
quebec city and montreal really do feel like europe, that aside I went on a pan-european trip as a teen and my favorite countries were austria and slovenia for the nature - but it's too far away and I wouldn't go back

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For anyone reading this thread, all you need to do is drop a pin anywhere in Gatlinburg in Google maps and look at it on street view. It'll tell you all you need to know. No description needed.

>>2819424
Now do the same for Paris and chances are it will look uglier, have loitering darkies, and graffiti. Unless you cherry pick something nice (which you can do anywhere except for complete shit holes like India where you’ll have a hard time finding anything nice). What exactly is the point you are trying to make anyways? That Gatlingburg is shit compared to the touristy parts of Europe that are also overcrowded with other non-native tourists? I vehemently disagree with you. I’ve got tourist kino in my backyard. I don’t care if you think staying in a wigwam hotel in the US is inferior to being robbed by gypsy children at some over-photographed and overly visited tourist area in Europe. I can walk right out of that wigwam and heil Hitler too and not get arrested. We do have kebab restaurants here too since I know you love that authentic European food.

>>2819424
we could make it better

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>>2819543
Europe is a blacked & browned shithole.
The government and authorities allow immigrants to do what they want with no repercussions because they are under control of jewish commies who they are pleased to see their golems destroy white civilization in all parts of the world.
One place where it does still thrive however, are the mountain towns of the US. I think there's something about the elevation that keeps the subhuman races away, even jews. Maybe being in higher altitudes makes you closer to god or the heavens or something like that. There is definitely something to it, because go anywhere in the US where there's mountains and its nothing but decent whites. Go to mountains in Peru, Nepal, Tibet or any mountain regions in the rest of the world and find the most peaceful decent examples of spiritual non-whites in the world. The mountains are definitely God's country and are seemingly untouchable. Even when you bring the tourist slop to a place like Gatlinburg, it still maintains a superior essence and humble clientele deserving of a place of peace and comfort unlike your shitty overpopulated yuropoor cities and tourist destinations which promise a standard outside the US but more often give you an even worse version of societal and economic decay ruining everything that was possibly once good, but probably even overhyped back then too.
Go have fun smelling the piss of homeless crack addicts everywhere you go and getting scammed and pickpocketed by nigerians and gypsies all you want, I'm sticking with God's country.