Holed Up in the Mountains

This morning, we left 96, SC and headed to Asheville, NC. We have driven through Asheville several times on our way to 96, but never stopped. We wanted to see The Biltmore Estate, built by George Vanderbilt, the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

By the time that we arrived, secured a campsite, and had lunch, it was too late to tour the mansion. So, we toured downtown Asheville. It was a sunny, relatively comfortable day-sweatshirt weather. When we returned to the RV, there was a notice to disconnect our water for the night because the temperature was going down to 28 degrees. Then, we watched the Weather Channel to find out that we had driven ourselves into a mountain snowstorm beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. tomorrow. So, we are battened down for the snow, we have plenty of bottled water, enough food and hope that when we wake, none of the bad weather happened so we can continue our way to Chicago.

If the weather isn't too bad, we hope to tour the estate when it opens, then get on the road to Knoxville, but the weather doesn't look too great there, either. Where is Spring?! We just want to get home safely. It is a good thing that we have no deadlines to meet. This drive could be ugly.

The photo is from our campgrounds, you will notice that we are pretty high up and there are the Blue Ridge mountains in the distance.