July 20, Sunday: It is 104 miles from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to Ashville, NC. Sounds easy, right!?! It took us 20 minutes to go 1/2 mile from our campground to the main road out of Pigeon Forge. From there to I40 east it was bumper to bumper traffic. It took us 1 hour to go 14 miles. Good thing we were not on a tight schedule. We drove alongside the Great Smokey Mtns. Very impressive! We are hoping to drive into them from the NC side. They are about 1 1/2 hours from our campground.
3 hours later we arrived at our campground just south of Ashville. This campground is very nice with a small lake which you can catch and release. You do not need a license either. Maybe Larry can do some fly-fishing. Our camping site is next to a little creek that feeds into the lake. There is a little pathway where we can walk the dogs down to the lake. Nobody can park along three sides of us. We are like in a little cul de sac. We are really lucking out on some of our sites.
The weather has been in the high 80s. Not too much humidity. People here say they are in a drought. It is hard for us to imagine because everything is still so green. Weeatherman says there is a threat of thunderstorms for the next few days. Will see.
After our longer than we thought day, we decided to just take a leisurely walk around the campgrounds and lake. Had dinner and headed for bed.
Tomorrow off to visit the Biltmore Estate!!!
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Jo,
After reading your blog, I looked up the Biltmore Estate on google. WOW - what a magnificent place!! I looked at a 10 picture slide show of the house - - I have to say the servant's quarters looked pretty nice! :-)
Christie
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