I've been though that area, and it is absolutely beautiful hilly country. Very nice folks too.
I forget how beautiful it is myself until I go back there.
I'm glad you were made to feel welcome
@catfish1957. But it's not too many years past that an unfamiliar face in the wrong holler could have been memorialized in our state song :
"Once two strangers climbed Old Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still,
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will."