Victorian Inn
Travel Blogs from Damascus
Nashville and the Smokies
We arrived on a wet evening in Nashville, lodging at a motel just outside of town in the rain. Undeterred, we set off into town to get some barbeque and watch the election results come in. Tennessee went early to Romney, but at least we got some blues and some nice beers to see in Obama.
Next day we explored the town some more, spending time in the Country Music Hall of Fame. I ...
Day 25, Sunday with the Ellingsons
... to compare, as we move further southwest! Mmmmmm...
Matt and Carol had the pleasure of watching the Seahawks beat Carolina, which made for a fun afternoon, and the younger kids loved playing in the leaves outside.
Tomorrow we'll need an early start, because it's over 400 miles to a ...
Day 24, Unwinding in Boone
... way up at 4,500 feet looking South towards Boone and the surrounding hills. When we woke up, clouds were rolling in, but we all got a great view of the fall colors all across the valleys. I should have taken pictures, because then a foggy mist rolled in around lunch, and it's been pretty much like that since. Matt says 30 ...
Day 23; Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina
... more lines, tour guides, etc.
I've been very amazed that no matter what big city we've visited, if you drive an hour away, it gets rural very quickly. Virginia is beautiful country, and in no time at all, the landscape was gentle rolling hills, turning into steeper rolling hills, with nothing but farms and trees.
A stop for dinner and groceries in southwest Virginia proved that we're moving towards "southern accent" country ...
The Blue Ridge - Fancy Gap, VA to Boone, NC
... all day.
Martin and Caroline Brinegar, like many others in the late 1800s, built a log cabin on the Blue Ridge where they eked out a living farming, and raised their family. The view from their cabin must have been amazing, but now all you can see are trees. The US has a policy of 'back to nature' and as such has relocated entire farming communities so that the land ...
Amenities
- Free parking