Our 2020 Biscuit Tour through the South was sadly cut short by that pesky Covid virus. We’re ready to get back on the road so 2023 brings us to Biscuit Take 2! This time we’ll be enjoying the Smoky Mountains, doing some quilting together with the Gees Bend Quilters, getting our Space fix at the Kennedy Space Center, hunting hard …

We’re back on the road again! Minivan was loaded up and we got underway Labor Day morning After an overnight in Maryland we arrived at Harpers Ferry, our home base for the next 3 days. Harpers Ferry is right at the corner of 3 states: Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia and I do believe we managed to roast in all …

We got to the Brunswick C&O towpath access lot at about 8:30 this morning. The towpath is the dirt and stone path that runs 184.5 miles along the C&O Canal, where visitors can walk, run, or bike the distance between Georgetown and Cumberland, MD. It was originally built for the canal mules to walk beside the canal as they “towed” …

Another hot one today with thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon so we opted to have a slow touristy day. We are in the heart of Virginia Wine Country after all! We started the day with a coffee at Beans in the Belfry and a stop at the “most photographed train station in the country”. Decent coffee and great decor at …

Skyline Drive is a 105 mile National Parkway that runs the length of Shenandoah National Park. It generally runs along the ridge of the Blue Ridge mountains so it climbs and descends and twists and turns. The road is impeccably maintained and there are many lookouts along the way. We started at the northern entrance in Front Royal, Virginia and …

We were quickly back on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the morning heading for Fries, VA. The Blue Ridge is a National Parkway maintained by the Park Service but clearly with a different approach than the Skyline Drive. The scenery is gorgeous as you’ll see below but the outlooks are frequently so overgrown that the view is blocked and many …

The weather forecast seems to change every couple of hours here. I think they just wait to see what happens and then update the forecast in the moment! We grabbed what looked like a break in the rain to drive to the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Parkway. The museum there is small but very interactive and informative! The …

The New River Rail Trail is a 57 mile linear park that follows an abandoned rail bed along the New River. We started the trail right in Fries, about a mile from where we are staying. It’s all unpaved but it was fairly smooth and right next to the river for the first 5 miles to Fries Junction. We then …

We headed for Townsend, TN today, right outside of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Tom had a Zoom call this morning and I had one at 6 so we didn’t have much time to stop along the way but we did take as much of the scenic route as possible. We were on the interstate around lunch time so …

Our little grandson loves cozy things and one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind when saw the Smokies was that those are really cozy mountains; tree covered, lush and soft. We biked the Cades Cove loop today, a Wednesday vehicle free day. The Cades Cove loop road is one of the most popular drives in the park as …