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Being from California, my first impression of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a vast forest as far as the eye can see. I drove into the park from the east, via the Blue Ridge Parkway to Cherokee, NC, although I did not drop down from the blue ridge to visit Cherokee. One of the…
Biltmore Estate is the 8,000-acre private estate of the George W. Vanderbilt family in Asheville, North Carolina with its centerpiece 250-room Biltmore House described as America’s largest private residence. The mansion and estate grounds were built between 1889 and 1895. The house opened to the public in 1963. The entry fee into Biltmore Estate is…
Biltmore Estate offers more than a mansion of the Gilded Age for visitors who fork out $60 to visit the 8,000 acre privately owned estate. The value buy here is booking a two-day ticket for $70, if you plan your trip to allow for two days. Up front disclosure is I did not pay the…
I live by Highway 1 on the central coast of California. Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica to San Francisco is considered one of the world’s great road trips. So, when I say the vistas of the Blue Ridge Parkway impressed me as an amazing road trip, I have a high standard for comparison. Driving…
Asheville is a place with creative energy. There is a frequency that hit me in waves as I walked through the center of the city. Places like Asheville remind me of Santa Cruz, California and the kind of places where people flock for a good time. Creative happenings occur at greater frequency here than most…
My first surprise was learning the Wright Brothers National Memorial is not located in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The town of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is the place name I have associated with the Wright Brothers first motor powered flight from my early days of grade school history and biographies, but the town of Kill…
Outside of Charleston, South Carolina about 25 miles northeast of the city, I saw a road sign on Highway 17 for the Sewee Environmental Education Center. In a split second decision, I hit the brakes of my rental car and exited to investigate another section of the South Carolina Lowlands in my quest to find…
