This is what it’s actually like to move to the tiny tourist town of Gatlinburg, TN – the gateway to the Smoky Mountains. I fell in love with the Smoky Mountains and wanted to move when we arrived on vacation in 2011. But we didn’t get serious about it until about five years later. I felt much relief and excitement when it finally happened last summer. The planning and research were painstaking until moving day. But that didn’t mean there weren’t still a few surprises in store for me.