We had about an hour drive to Clingmans Dome this morning and stopped at a couple of overlooks to get all warmed for the upcoming view from the top! At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. …

We headed for Piedmont Alabama today to stay in the Roberts Home and Museum and ride the Chief Ladiga Rail Trail. We started on the scenic route heading for an overlook on the Foothills Parkway. We just needed to see those mountains one more time. Our next destination was the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum about 30 minutes away. Cell connections are …

Saturday, September 16: It rained on and off today and we don’t like biking in the rain so we went for a walk through Piedmont during a dry spell. We saw many of the historical homes, including a Sears & Roebuck house. Sadly, most are in very poor shape. Piedmont itself is struggling; empty storefronts, run down buildings. One big …

It’s hard to describe a Gees Bend Quilt Retreat but I have decided that its all I need to keep my head on straight for the next year. We are all signed up for next September – annual head maintenance. I (Jeannie) grabbed a couple of fun fabrics and went to play this year. That resulted in Ode to Frida, …

We’ve been watching the weather closely to find dry spells for the couple of rides that we hoped to do in the Gainesville area. On Tuesday we were pleased to see a dry patch in the morning so we headed out right from the house to ride the Gainesville to Hawthorne trail. The humidity is really, really high and the …

We spent an afternoon and the following morning at Kennedy Space Center on our way to GA. It was not at all crowded and the exhibits are really well done. First stop was the bus tour which brings you to the Apollo/Saturn V center. The Saturn V Rocket dominates the building and there was a really good docent giving tours. …

We headed to the Okefenokee Swamp, a little over an hour from Brunswick. There is a National Wildlife Refuge there and some parks where you can take a boat ride through some of the swamp – or rent kayaks or canoes and paddle on your own. We’re definitely in the “take a boat ride” camp. The Okefenokee Swamp Park had …

We headed off to ride on St. Simons Island this morning. Our stop at the visitor center to pick up a bike trail map was quite a bit different than our Visitor Center stop on Jekyll Island. St. Simons is much fancier. We both perceived a bit of shock from the receptionist at our cycling attire. She cautioned us that …

Technically the LowCountry is “a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina’s coast, including the Sea Islands.” However, for the purposes of our blog we are including Savannah, Georgia in this post – since we were only there for a day and because it is literally on the South Carolina border – the border between the two states being the …

We’re making our way up the NC coast to spend a couple of days in Beaufort and then head out to Ocracoke Island. We stopped for the night in Pawley’s Island, a SC barrier island that is an older style summer resort with a much slower pace than what lies north in towns like Myrtle Beach. We spent a few …