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Really............I have reservations!
Pulled in here today -(the top of a mountain) and there was a mix up with reservations................no open spot for us. It was suggested that we go to Wal-Mart for the night. I was almost in tears after we climbed this mountain pulling the fifth wheel. The manager lady and I had almost had words...Finally she switched things around and a smaller …
The Beautiful Biltmore Estate/alight for Christmas
... and did a little shopping, too.
We also saw Mrs. Biltmore's beautiful Stevenson-Duryea Touring Car, which was parked behind the winery in a temperature-controlled room.
Our tour time was 5:45 pm, and although all the advance materials I had read said to be sure to get the audio tour headphones @$10, ...
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
... Mountains National Park, it was beautiful views the whole way. This is Cherokee area, who called the mountains "shaconage" which means "blue, like smoke". During the 1790s white settlement began in the lowlands (North Carolina) but as farmland became scarce they pulled themselves and their wagons up and over the 5200 feet summit (1585 metres), Newfound Gap, to settle on lowlands of the other side (Tennessee). The first settlers crossed ...
Asheville, NC
... br>
We left a little late on Friday afternoon because we still had not decided where to go. In the end we headed for Athen's, GA Wal-Mart for a delightful night of boon docking along with a very tasty mexican dinner. Very cool college town!
The following morning after stocking up at Wal-Mart, we headed to good ole Chehaw in Albany, GA. The first campground ...