Blue Ridge Parkway & Tennessee

We headed out of Asheville via the Blue Ridge Parkway headed north to Tennessee.

 As you can see the first part of our trip was very rainy

 This is a picture of us driving through a rain cloud

 The accommodations and the rig....looks pretty small next to this rock

 Morning glory

The following pictures are a mountain cabin that was moved to this area to recreate the life of a mountain farmer.  We thought this could be a perfect home for us.

The storm finally lifted and afforded us this beautiful view!

After we left the Blue Ridge we headed to Rutledge, Tennessee to see my Mom.  We had a nice few days with her and Dennis. It was particularly entertaining watching Dennis & Trey install cabinets in my Mom's kitchen.  Went to Lowe's to help my Mom pick out a more appropriate light fixture for her kitchen and on the way home we stopped to take a picture of one of the many Quilt squares on a barn.  As we drove further up the drive to turn around we met up with the farmer and he invited us in to see his amazing Tennessee walking horses.  I called him Farmer Jones, before I found out his real name was Farmer Pace.  

He actually moved here from Kentucky to raise these beautiful horses.

Afterwards we headed into Knoxville to enjoy a few beers and a wonderful pizza! Knoxville is another downtown that has remained semi-quaint but very trendy, enjoyed walking around looking at the old buildings.

Here are a few of the quilt squares on the sides of barns in the area that we could find, supposedly they mark parts of the Appalachian Trail, but we thought it was fun to look for them. The third one is on Farmer Pace's barn and you can see him standing in the doorway.


The next day we spent the day touring the area around my Mom's that is very rich in Civil War History.  We stopped at Lincoln Memorial University and walked through a very interesting exhibit on Abraham Lincoln. After we finished there we headed to a lookout point that allows you to stand in and view Tennessee, Kentucky & Virginia.  Unfortunately we left our camera in the camper so we don't have any pictures. :-(