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May Archived Entries

Archived on: June 11, 2004

Georgia

May 6-9

We spent 2 days exploring in Northeast Georgia. We visited a Civil war fort (Fort Pulaski) and the historic district of Savannah. It has been 90+ and we are a little wilted and a bit browner than when we left home. Georgia

Tennessee & Kentucky

May 10-11

We visited the Chickamauga / Chattanooga National Military Park, it is the site (battlefield) of a large and critical US Civil War encounter between the Confederate and Union Armies. The park contains various monuments, placards in remembrance of this battle and those who lost their lives here. The museum is very nice and details the conditions the let up to the Civil War and how it played out. We then visited the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, nice tour but no samples.

May 12-16

What screams Kentucky more than a visit to Churchill Downs to see the location of the Kentucky Derby (well actually Colonel Saunders gravesite but we skipped that). Also had a tour through the GM Corvette assembly plant and Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, and took a 4 hour hike through Mammoth caves. We have enjoyed Bar-B-Que, buttermilk pie, fried corn-on-the-cob, red beans & rice, mint juleps and sweet tea…. Our waistlines continue to expand.

Here are some pictures from Tennessee & Kentucky

North Carolina

May 17-25

Spent a day visiting the Biltmore – it was built by George Vanderbilt in 1895 and is the biggest house in North America with 250+ rooms and 80,000+ acres of parkland. Then spent 3 days driving and hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains National Park --- this helped to wear off a bit of the good food from Kentucky, but we did develop a taste for Virginia smoked cured ham. Spent a fun weekend visiting with Shauna’s cousin Brian and his family in Hickory, N.C., weather conditions are SH (“stinking hot” as Aldo likes to call it). North Carolina (updated May 25)

South Carolina

May 26-31

Aldo’s Mom and Sister from Calgary spent a week visiting with us in Charleston, S.C. We toured the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, did a walking tour of the historic district, and spent time on the local beaches. The weather was ~37 C each day, so we didn’t move too fast. South Carolina