Missed my Sunday posting.....busy and sometimes wifi connection is NOT what the parks promise!!!
Left Nashville and it's rain and flooding the Sunday of my last posting and drove to the Smokey Mountains. Driving through Knoxville, TN and then entered what one of my brothers described as the "tackiest place on earth!" Pigeon Fork and Gatlinburg, TN would be a great place to take your kids to......Dollywood, street after street of gift shops and things for kids (anyone before high school age) to do endlessly!!!
We camped in the Smokey Mountain, NP and did go back into Gatlinburg as their was an Arts and Crafts loop that we drove around and stopped at about 10 of the 100+ shops that very few had some worthwhile handmade things to see...there also was the Arrowmont Arts and Crafts school that had no students at the time but we viewed a gallery of some of the instructors work painting, photography, pottery etc
In another building Art saw the woodturning workshop and some of their work..the school had a catalog of classes that were weekend to week long classes over the year.
We did meet a couple of interesting people that we will have stories to tell you about!!
Asheville, NC and a tour of the Biltmore Estate on Wednesday....made the Hearst Castle that we've been so impressed with for years look like a cottage!! Amazing what people do with their money??? Then the next day we took a trolley tour of Ashville.
Saw a lot of beautiful neighborhoods...saw the house which Zelda Fitzgerald had died in with 5 other women due to a fire...she was there because it was a psychiatric sanitarium at the time! The city had a lot of small health institutions in the neighborhoods as people came for the air quality for consumpiton (tuberculosis) at the time,,,,,
On Friday we arrived at probably the nicest RV park we will ever encounter!! It was on Hilton Head, SC....check out the site We had a site backed up right on the water/marina and loved just watching the boat activity and nature. Spent the weekend touring Savannah and Hilton Head Island with my brother Mike and his wife Sandie .... they will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in June and at each meal we celebrated that or his and my birthdays in June!!! Had some great food and talked and talked. They drove up from Vero Beach, FL (about 6 hrs) and stayed at a hotel only 2 miles away from us!!! They had visited these areas quite a few times so were are tour guides as well as we took a trolly tour together of Savannah...lots of movies have been made there and the book/movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" was completely about Savannah....am going to have to read it again now that I've been there!!
We are in Charleston, SC now...arrived here by noon yesterday and took a Grayline tour and saw such beautiful old houses and an huge open market area that we are getting ready to go back today and take pix and tour on our own..
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Stay well to all, Pat and Art
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Pat, make sure you guys get over to Ft. Sumtner. If you like oysters, great place to have some downtown along with some beer.
ReplyDeleteAs you drive up the some of the back roads you will see some of the African-American ladies selling their home made baskets. It is done in the tradition they have carried through their families from Africa.
Sounds like you are having fun. I'll check out that RV site you mentioned for Hilton Head.