2 May Going home

Our adventure is over for this time. Its time to say goodbye...
Looking forward to my next trip. See you...

2 May Chimney Rock Park

The top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. At a soaring elevation of 2,280 feet with 7 mile views.

Hickory Nut Falls, one of the highest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. On our way back my friend almost step on a snake... God I really hate those snakes...

1 May

Biltmore Estate in Ashville. The Estate is huge we do a lot of walking as well as driving around the 8000-acre backyard.

Biltmore Estate George and Edith Vanderbilt's home with 250-room. Can you imagine who would like to live like this. As always is very tacky and so american both the interior and the architecture of the house.We are not allowed to take any photos inside the house so I can't show you what it looks like.

A stroll by the azaleas. At Biltmore we do some more winetasting and this time the wine is ok, not bad at all, not bad...

30 April

Today we visit Salem NC. Salem was founded in 1766 by the Moravians a Protestant faith that began in what is now known as the Czech Republic. The Moravians were missionaries who established an earlier settlement in Bethlehem. The architecture and landscape of Salem are still quite accurate, as many of the Historic Town buildings are original structures.



At Winkler Bakery my friend and I get a cookie big enough to share, but we get one each from this bakery.The dome bake oven at Winkler is typical of bake ovens used in Salem. The Bakery's oven is still heated with wood as it was nearly 200 years ago. Pretty damn good chocolate chip cookie.


Winkler Bakery

After Salem we make a stop at Westbend Vineyard for some winetasting. But the Wine is to sweet for me not really my taste. After that we're up for Mexican dinner and tonight I'm going to have a dessert. At least thats my plan...


Don't think so...

29 April

We start the day hitting the mall, shop til you drop. Later on we eat at Cracker Barell old country store. Half restaurant and half store. Talk about kill two birds with one stone. While we wait for the food we play peg games. Give it a try it's kind of hard. I really badly wants one of the rockers. Check out the webpage were the Cracker Barell get there rockers from Hinkle chairs. I don't think they can ship a plantation double rocker or....a plantation slat bench or...

28 April Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen Gardens a visit to the park takes all day. We see a lot of snakes not so nice at all. Everytime when it rustle in the bushes my heart jumps. I really hate snakes...


Brookgreen Gardens, the first public sculpture garden in America, has in its collection more than 1,200 works by 350 sculptors. It´s reallly a joy to stroll along.

My friend takes a photo of the snakes but I stick to the gators instead.


They can run faster than a horse...something I learn on our trip. Wonder how fast a snake can crawl...

I think I stick to the marvelous live oaks instead.

27 April Boone hall plantation

We contiune our journey with a trip to Boone hall plantation


The only slave street left in the States.
Boone Hall is today one of America's oldest working, living plantations.
This plantation was the settings for North and South- my favourite Tv series, The notebook- movie, Days of our lives - tv series...I recognize the settings from North and South with Patrick Swayze and James Reed.


Live oak trees with spanish moss

Spanish moss - airplants - member of the pineapple family. You can only see it here in the South. The plant is not parasitic, it can sometimes damage the host tree by over-shading the leaves, thus reducing photosynthesis, or by weighing down and breaking the branches. Other than that it´s harmless for the tree. I think it gives the tree a romantic ghostly aura.