Since I haven't really vacationed this summer (you have all come to me), I've decided to share some pictures from our trip of May 2007. I had received my new digital camera but did not yet have a blog in 2007 so that I might share pictures with all of you. We flew from Phoenix to Nashville where we made sure to visit Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, before driving on to Atlanta and business appointments. Glen is standing on the path that leads to the slave quarters and it is the back of the house that you see in the background. Even in May, Nashville felt hot and muggy.
After a night and most the day in Roswell, north of Atlanta, we drove to
Asheville, NC, and stayed in this B and B. It was a beautiful town in the hilly part of NC. Amazingly, we tried out a Mexican restaurant here that turned out pretty good food for being so far from the source.
The next day we visited this grandiose home, the
Biltmore, which is the largest private dwelling in the United States. Built by George Vanderbilt in the late 1800's, it contains 4 acres of floor space. Our favorite part, of course, was the green house and the garden.
We had planned to drive the Smokey Mountain Parkway all the way to Virginia. It started out as a very good idea, but quickly left us in a fog. A literal fog which slowed us down to about 15 miles per hour and blocked our view of anything but the road straight ahead. We finally found our way down the mountain at Boone, a town named for 'the' Daniel Boone. This led us onto an interstate which led us all the way to Charlotte, VA. Western Virginia was beautiful and green. After a very late night arrival due to our slow ride on the parkway, we got up the next morning and made our way up the mountain to Monticello, the home designed and built by Thomas Jefferson. It seemed smaller than I expected (perhaps because I had been to the
Biltmore the day before:) It was very enlightening and entertaining to see all the inventions and extras which Jefferson had added to his special place.
Once again, I was fascinated by the garden area. The side of the mountain had been leveled to make way for a beautiful large vegetable garden and fruit orchard. It was indeed a wonderful mountaintop home. After our visit here, we drove to our
accommodations nearer Washington, D.C. I'll leave you wanting more. Soon to come will be "The vacation before the blog, Part II."
Since I haven't really vacationed this summer (you have all come to me), I've decided to share some pictures from our trip of May 2007. I had received my new digital camera but did not yet have a blog in 2007 so that I might share pictures with all of you. We flew from Phoenix to Nashville where we made sure to visit Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, before driving on to Atlanta and business appointments. Glen is standing on the path that leads to the slave quarters and it is the back of the house that you see in the background. Even in May, Nashville felt hot and muggy.
After a night and most the day in Roswell, north of Atlanta, we drove to Asheville, NC, and stayed in this B and B. It was a beautiful town in the hilly part of NC. Amazingly, we tried out a Mexican restaurant here that turned out pretty good food for being so far from the source.
The next day we visited this grandiose home, the Biltmore, which is the largest private dwelling in the United States. Built by George Vanderbilt in the late 1800's, it contains 4 acres of floor space. Our favorite part, of course, was the green house and the garden.
We had planned to drive the Smokey Mountain Parkway all the way to Virginia. It started out as a very good idea, but quickly left us in a fog. A literal fog which slowed us down to about 15 miles per hour and blocked our view of anything but the road straight ahead. We finally found our way down the mountain at Boone, a town named for 'the' Daniel Boone. This led us onto an interstate which led us all the way to Charlotte, VA. Western Virginia was beautiful and green. After a very late night arrival due to our slow ride on the parkway, we got up the next morning and made our way up the mountain to Monticello, the home designed and built by Thomas Jefferson. It seemed smaller than I expected (perhaps because I had been to the Biltmore the day before:) It was very enlightening and entertaining to see all the inventions and extras which Jefferson had added to his special place.
Once again, I was fascinated by the garden area. The side of the mountain had been leveled to make way for a beautiful large vegetable garden and fruit orchard. It was indeed a wonderful mountaintop home. After our visit here, we drove to our accommodations nearer Washington, D.C. I'll leave you wanting more. Soon to come will be "The vacation before the blog, Part II."
How beautiful. . . Andrew loves to talk about the Biltmore. We even looked at jobs in Ashville. I'm glad you had such a good trip last year- and. . . who is the one with the great memory?!?!? I'd be hard-pressed to remember all that you do about travel, history, and books.
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