In the middle of Virginia's Crooked Road

Have you heard of the Crooked Road, Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail? I was excited to stumble upon mention of it in December while researching our southern sojourn. One major piece of my agenda was to listen to as much live music as possible and take in some of this country’s fantastic music history.

Answers to burning or not so burning questions

• What's it like to live without plumbing/water in an RV? Ummmm, it's like, ummmmmmm, it's mildly irritating. (LL interprets: it sucks). You have to find alternative ways to wash your hands and you have to stock up with the park ground water to pour down the RV toilet. (LL interprets: it's icky) And sometimes when I go to the park bathroom

The Vanderbilts' Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC

We just spent 5 hours walking through the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, built by George Vanderbilt in 1895 on 8,000 acres.

You can't take photographs of the inside, unfortunately. The rooms and fabrics, walls, ceilings, fireplaces,

New Age Mecca

Asheville, NC, pops up on national rankings for a variety of things:

• The "New Age Mecca"
• The "New Freak Capital of the U.S."
• One of "The 50 Most Alive Places To Be" (Rolling Stone)
• One of the "Best Places to Reinvent Your Life" (AARP Magazine)
• "Beer Capitol, USA"

It's all about the music

Well Marley had her say about Memphis, so I suppose I ought to add a few more notes on that fun city of 670,000+ residents. Yes, I did enjoy fried chicken for the first time in my life. I had to go back for a full lunch the day after I shared my take-out snack with Marley.