Govereaux Travel: What should the title be?

You'll understand why coming up with a title was a little difficult for this post. The last few days we have seen so many things and have driven quite a few beautiful miles. Christopher wrote our last post about our travels through the Great Smoky Mountains and ending in Asheville. Our day lounging around the KOA was really needed and very relaxing. Solomon took some naps, we made some meals and laid around outside because the weather was amazing with no humidity or bugs!

The Biltmore was definitely worth the money. If may seem like a pretty penny just to tour a home but your not just touring a home. The Biltmore is a modest, amazing 75,000 square foot MANSION that has its own swimming pool and bowling alley indoors and had it's own village, blacksmiths, diary farm, and the list goes on and on and on back in the day. You first enter the estate and purchase your tickets and then you take the short 3 mile drive ... yes 3 miles to the parking lots where shuttles pick you up to take you the house. I loved how the lady at the ticket counter said "it's just a 3 mile drive to the other parking by the house" as if it was not big deal to drive 3 miles through the forrest to get to this mansion. It was pretty funny to me! The home is amazing and it would take a lot of words to explain all the beauty we saw. We had lunch in the horse stalls... I know more surprises, beautiful horse stalls :) We had a great tour and just stared at it for a bit before we got back on the bus, got in our car and drove another 5 miles to the village. There are a few different places that you can stay at the Biltmore which would be quite romantic.

After the Biltmore, and all if had to offer, we headed out to meet a friend for dinner. This is the friend that Christopher and I met through so it was really fun getting to meet her little peoples and man. Our visit came to an end and we drove an hour north to stay by Mount Airy, NC. With more amazing weather our night that night actually got a little cold. That's not a bad problem to have! To find out what's in Mount Airy take a look at the statues below :)

After Mount Airy we got on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Fancy Gap. We drove all the way up to the very north end. We stopped a few times to take pictures, look around and enjoyed the amazing scenery all around us. Some leaves were even changing, very few but there were some. It sure is a beautiful drive. You're not really going up and down mountains you are driving the top ridge of the mountain the whole way. maybe that's why they call it the Blueridge parkway :)

We ended yesterday at the Waynesboro North 340 Campground. It was lovely with a lot of trees and it's not in the middle of town so we didn't hear any traffic. Read Tomorrow's post about our drive through Shenandoah National Park that we did today.