This week on Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Ryan hops in the jalopy and heads to Knoxville, Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains. Plus, Kiernan realizes that somehow they’ve recorded eighty four episodes without ever talking about Ryan’s proclivity for doll furniture.

Things we talked about in today’s podcast:

Knoxville Urban Wilderness

https://www.visitknoxville.com/urban-wilderness/

SoKno Taco Cantina

https://soknota.co/

Market Square in Knoxville

https://www.visitknoxville.com/blog/post/10-things-to-know-about-market-square/

The Sunsphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsphere 

Knoxville Museum of Art’s Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door

https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-through-the-unusual-door/?fbclid=IwAR0-LC-ypve4glLMCt8KO0snbhITplQMdBB0CWj1VxuvwZFmAB0vGYC6Ls4 

Knoxville Museum of Art’s Thorne Miniatures Rooms

https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/thorne-rooms/ 

Downtown Wine+Spirits

https://www.dtwine.com

Rainbow Falls, Great Smoky Mountains

https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/rainbow-falls-pyv.htm 

Tuckaleechee Caverns

https://tuckaleecheecaverns.com/development-of-caverns/

Avoiding Bear Attacks

https://www.news.meredithlmg.com/general/what-not-to-do-in-a-bear-attack-push-your-slower-friends-down-in-attempts/article_531801ea-f4be-5571-be0f-e121786c1caa.html

Toxic Cyanobacteria in Zion National Park

https://www.nps.gov/zion/planyourvisit/toxic-cyanobacteria-bloom-in-the-virgin-river-and-the-streams-of-zion-national-park.htm