ASHEVILLE

  We traveled over the Smokey Mountains on Hwy 441 and drove just a very short distance on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Enjoyed a day touring The Biltmore. Very pricey but we (well I) wanted to see it. There’s the house, the gardens and the village. It all takes most of the day.

They don’t allow any pictures inside the house. The next day we climbed Chimney Rock. It was 982 steps to Exclamation Point which is about 400 steps higher than the rock in the picture. The good news is you can take an elevator to the top, its about the same as 26 stories. When it was built in 1947 it was the highest elevator in NC.