Holiday Silence in the Smoky Mountains
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions. Family traditions don’t have to be clever. They just have to stick. Ours is simple. Every Christmas, we pack up the family, leave the flat gray nonsense behind, and haul ourselves into the mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Same place. Same routine. Same cold air that feels like it’s doing you a favor. We stay on top of a mountain at a resort called Westgate Resorts. Literally on top. High enough that the world below looks small […]https://ericfoltin.com/2026/01/26/holiday-silence-in-the-smoky-mountains/






