The end of our tour

While in Savannah we had a riverboat tour.  When we were taking off the Nina and the Pinta pulled into port. 

All tied up to the pier.

We had a trolley tour of the city.  We had the whole trolley to ourselves.

The houses are huge and from before the Civil War.

This is The Angel Oak just outside of Charleston.  It's at least 450 years old.

We visited the only tea plantation in North America.  We bought tea. Surprise

This is the machine that harvests the tea.

We tried to get to Patriots Point last Saturday.  The point was all closed off because of a fun run.  We wandered around waiting for the roads to open and were only one hour late.  It was a hoot.  This is an old diesel sub.

That is the Yorktown.  We also saw a destroyer.

Later on in the day we got on a ferry and went to Ft. Sumter where the first shot was fired in the Civil War.

The entrance to the fort.

That is a shell still in the wall from when the Union got the fort back in 1863.

We went to Asheville, NC last Sunday.  This is the last stop of the tour.  We had a free day so we drove on part of the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Nothing was green yet.  As a matter of fact part of the parkway was closed that day for a while because of snow.

Tuesday we went to Biltmore to visit the House.  It's huge and has 250 rooms.  We couldn't take pictures in the house, so I bought a book.  We climbed a lot of stairs from the third story to the basement.  I was pooped.

 

After we left NC we drove to Stone Mountain in Georgia to rest up for two days.  We camped in Stone Mountain Park.  It is really pretty.  We went to see the mountain carving and this is as close as we could get.  It really is huge and pretty.  The mountain is a large stone.  We drove around the four mile road that encircles the rock.  It's really weird; there is very little growing on the mountain itself.   Just one huge rock.

 

 

We are in Breman about 10 miles from Sally's right now.  We go to her house tomorrow.  We leave Georgia Monday morning to go to Alabama.  We're going to get a few things worked on at the RV factory in Red Bay.  That's all for this time

 

Love, Mom and Dad