Tag: North Carolina

We had a most enjoyable day today. We drove up into the Great Smoky Mountains driving through Cherokee country on the way. I loved the Cherokee Museum and its fascinating display. Our proposed walking along the trails was delayed when I saw the fun to be had riding a huge inner tube down the river rapids. The woman renting the...

Today was our first day of ‘local’ exploration from which we would return to the same bed for a second night. Nevertheless we expected to drive a bit more than an hour each way to visit our targets for the day. We were awake at our usual time around 7:00 am, showered, ate the hotel breakfast – juice, coffee, scrambled...

Today saw us do a lot of driving and a little bit of shopping. I’ve picked up some nice pieces of fabric which I’ll work into the Grandma’s Garden quilt I’m working on for Romina. We arrived in Asheville NC, our home for the next 2 nights, around mid afternoon, too late to do the visit of Biltmore Estate, the...

It is still summer here and the weather has been really hot and humid. The remnants of hurricane Isaac linger as a series of storms, a couple of which we have had to drive through but really they have not caused us much worry other than that. I hope we can continue to avoid some of the bad weather that...

I slept pretty well from about 11:00 pm until a few minutes after 6:00 am when I woke naturally, checked the time, and decided to lie in a bit longer. It seems my body clock has done its usual quick adjustment though I expect I might still wake a bit more than usual through the night for the next while....