What we did on our Summer vacation
Late Spring brought us north to be with family and friends for an extended visit. Downsizing my parents home was … Continue reading What we did on our Summer vacation
Late Spring brought us north to be with family and friends for an extended visit. Downsizing my parents home was … Continue reading What we did on our Summer vacation
Answer: About 100 days. Question: How long before you come back to “the city”? Family, friends and springtime in NY … Continue reading And we are back…back in the New York groove
The Blue Ridge Parkway is 469 miles of twists and turns along the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and the … Continue reading Blue Ridges from NC to VA
Charleston, South Carolina is named after King Charles II. It has weathered both the Revolutionary and Civil wars as well … Continue reading Southern Charm in Charleston, SC
My sense of direction is notoriously opposite what it should be. Needless to say we turned south instead of north. … Continue reading Florida, again!
Leaving the Smoky Mountains and Asheville we crossed the French Broad River. This is one of a few rivers on … Continue reading Winston-Salem, No Marlboro Man here….
Asheville, North Carolina is in the north west of the state and is nestled in the Smoky Mountains. George Vanderbilt … Continue reading What do John Singer Sargent, Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted and oh yeah, George Washington Vanderbilt have in common?…Three names each and the Biltmore
Passing farms filled with purple flowers, new growth of some green plants, cattle and thoroughbred horses we zig zagged our … Continue reading Clarksville, TN to Asheville, NC
About an hour south of the famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis along the banks of the Mississippi is the … Continue reading Ste Genevieve, Missouri, the oldest town west of the Mississippi River
The Ozark Mountains straddle northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. The forested ridges and sparkling creeks roll into the horizon like … Continue reading Arkansas and the Ozark Mountains