Enroute to Shawboro, NC approaching Edenton, NC located on Abermarle Sound....

We passed thru Elizabeth City several times during our boating trips South/North....exiting the Dismal Swamp Canal you travel down the river to Elizabeth City, then, ut\\out into Abmermarle Sound....

Headed East from Asheville, NC to Shawboro, NC located near the Dismal Swamp.....Visit Dismal Swamp Canal....Outer Banks...Kitty Hawk, etc

Tunnel in route to Shawboro, NC

Linda & Janet in front of Biltmore Mansion located in Asheville, NC...Tour of mansion took over 1.5 hours...very interesting....enjoyed lunch in what was the horse stables....walked thru a portion of the exstensive flower gardens adjacent to the mansion...property continues to be owned & operated by the Vanderbilt family...

 On to Townsend, TN and Pigeon Forge...Gatlinburg....to attend Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Show...drove, by auto,  to Clingman's Dome, the highest point in mountains...Don was only one of group able to walk the last 1/2 mile to the observation tower at the very top....

Don & Janet Leech, sailing friends who recently sold their sailboat and purchased a new Class A RV arrived in Medina and accompanied us on a trip to Cave City, Ky to see Mamouth Cave....

 Stalagtites in cave....                                                           Deer plentiful all around park grounds

Visit from sailing friends Norm & Linda Passmore, currently wintering in Guatamala aboard their Island Packet Sailboat and summers at their new farm located near Corning, NY.

Traveled back to Morgantown, WV.....WalMart overnite....On to Pier - Lon Campground located ner Medina, OH.....Here for the month of September....RV maintenance....etc.....