2022
Rapping up 2022 we made two trips to North Carolina this year. We spent time in Brevard and Highlands. We did a lot of great hiking so check out the pictures and videos.
Rapping up 2022 we made two trips to North Carolina this year. We spent time in Brevard and Highlands. We did a lot of great hiking so check out the pictures and videos.
We are on the train in Denver. We should make Chicago by early afternoon tomorrow. We had enough time today to visit the Alpine visitor center at Rocky Mountian Park. Wow, wow, wow…you could see Wyoming 34 miles away. The views were unreal. The pics dont really capture it. It took a few minutes to…
Today we headed south on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Wow very nice. We went to an area in the Great Smokey Mountain Park called Smokemont. We hiked the Tow String Trial. It was not a difficult day, 4.7 miles and 725 ft of elevation. However it was a horse trail and it rained a few…
We have a number of trips planned for 2023. Our first trip is to Charleston and Georgetown SC. These are two of the oldest cities in South Carolina. We will once again be making our annual trip to Brevard, NC. Our next trip will be to Washington DC, Boston, and then Bar Harbor Maine.
We have been rained out for the last two days. Yesterday we spent some time in Waynesville. It is a nice downtown with a number of restaurants and plenty of places to get something for the mantel. Today we drove all the way to the trail thinking that it would stop raining at any moment. …
We are staying at the Izzak Walton Inn. The inn was built during the great days of the railroad to cater to the rail employees. It is a train stop today with a working yard next door. Of course every thing is train themed. There are several rooms on the grounds that are converted rolling…
The views you get driving around this lake are incomparable. The one big problem is on the weekends people come from every direction. Every available spot along the road has a car parked on it. We took a short 2.4 mile hike around an alpine lake before we left for the train. right now we…