Outlet Shopping

We decided to explore some outlet malls. I remembered from a much earlier visit to this area that Pigeon Forge boasted that it had the largest outlet malls in the world. That was then, and this is now. The outlet mall in Pigeon Forge stands half empty, but a very large and thriving outlet mall has sprung up in Sevierville.

So we visited the Tanger Outlets. Actually, we only visited part of them. The place is so large that we were tired of shopping and hungry before we ran out of stores. We did find a few good deals, including a nice cheese plane, but mainly we looked. One thing we noted was a growing tendency for manufacturers to put prominent logos on all their clothing. Everything in the Eddie Bauer store was like that. We prefer not to walk around like advertising billboards.

For lunch we went to Subway, where we actually had an Internet connection, although not a very good one. We researched where to stay next and decided on another Corps of Engineers place, Defeated Creek Campground, near Carthage, TN. We’re hoping to have a decent cell and Internet connection there.



We’ve been out of touch for a long time now. Our TIVO is frantically warning us that it is almost out of program information. It hasn’t been able to reach the server. The last few times it has terminated with an SO3 error. I’m waiting until we have a good connection before trying to deal with that. We’ve gotten it before, and I’m hoping that the reset procedure that has worked in the past will work again. We have lifetime TIVO service—for the lifetime of the unit—and it’s probable that the TIVO box won’t last forever.