Today was check-out of the Wyndham Smoky Mountain resort day so we packed up our clothes and the remaining food and checked out at 10:00 am and stayed in the lobby of the resort for an hour or so reading until it was time to leave for a tour of the Wheatlands Plantation which is about 12 miles northwest on Boyd's Creek Highway and was built in 1825. The original house built in 1812 burned down when 3 of the daughters took a slave girl up to the attic to teach her to read and lit a lantern which turned over and started a fire. The plantation was built by the Chandler family and has a very interesting history. Our tour guide, Richard, and his partner, John, bought the place about 10 years ago and set about restoring it. They have a journal written by a family member from the 1870's until 1945 so they know a lot about the workings and history of the plantation. The tour was recommended on TripAdvisor and we're glad we did it.
Then we headed off to our next timeshare resort at Wyndham Fairfield Glade near Crossville, a few miles off of Interstate 40. This is a very large resort that is in the midst of a residential area with a few golf courses and a few lakes with marinas and boat rentals. We have a 1 BR deluxe unit and again it is very large. There's a separate room with a very large whirlpool tub besides the regular size bathroom with tub/shower.
We had dinner at one of the golf course restaurants, Legends, that was having an Italian night buffet for $12.95. The food was OK, worth the price, but nothing special.
Everyone we have run into on this trip has been so friendly, and not just those who deal with tourists that you would expect to be friendly as part of their job. We did the "owner update" here and our salesperson told us that they see a lot of people who move to Florida from the north to get away from the winters, but then get tired of the "same old, same old" weather so they move a little bit north to get some seasons, but not too much of the winter. The locals call them "half backs" because they've moved halfway back home.
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