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Travel Blogs from Asheville
The Beautiful Biltmore Estate/alight for Christmas
... a "chateau" of this caliber, one normally must cross oceans - t see it here, in the U.S. Southeast, is mind-blowing. To think that it was built in the late 1890's, with electricity (including electric lights in the bottom of HUGE indoor swimming pool!), and when George Vanderbilt was a bachelor, is really unbelievable!
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Finding more Falls - more Fall Colors!
... surprised to start seeing more colorful trees again.
The information I had gathered indicated that there was a Lower Whitewater Falls in northern South Caroina, and and Upper Whitewater Falls in southern North Carolina, so that was what we had gone out to find. The ...
Goodbye TN, hello North Carolina & Virg
Hello again! This will be a short blog entry, we have just been wasting time camping here and there while everything from Hurricane Sandy and the snow blows over in NJ and NY. Right now we plan to get up there either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.....meaning we will have been on the road just about a month. Yowza! After leaving Nashville we camped a couple nights in Gatlinburg, TN which is right outside the Great Smoky Mountain ...
Day 23 - Asheville - North Carolina
... in 1803. At Newfound Gap you can, if you choose, join the Appalachian trial, a 2174 mile (3498 km) long walking track that covers the whole of the Appalachian mountains. I did not choose, seeing the summit was just fine for me :) Once over the mountains and in North Carolina it was off to Asheville to visit Biltmore House. This is the most visited house in the USA. It was built in 1895 by rail tycoon George W Biltmore, and it is ...
Asheville, NC
... the same and the perfect ending to our 7 month travels from home.
Heading Sunday to Grayton Beach campground until we take the RV in for maintenance in Defuniak Dixie RV the following Friday. We will be in Destin until after the Thanksgiving holiday then heading to who knows where in southern Florida.
Enjoy November and I'll catch up with you afterwards!
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking