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Welcome To Virginia
We made it safely to Virginia on Sunday. We plan on calling the area home for the next 3 months. With all there is to do in the area, you can expect many adventures. Continue reading
Category: Destinations
Asheville Wildlife Nature Center
The Nomads made a trip to the Asheville Wildlife Nature Center. It’s an exciting, interesting, and inexpensive trip where you can learn and enjoy facts about some woodland wildlife such as, otters, black bears, and my favorite, wolves. As we made our way along the dirt path and looked at… Continue reading
DuPont State Forest
What does The Last Of The Mohicans & The Hunger Games have in common? This was a question we sent out through our various social media outlets on January 17th. The answer was location. The location? DuPont State Forest. And we, of course, had to explore it. The official name is… Continue reading
Spartanburg
Today the Nomads headed south of the border; the North Carolina border that is. Hendersonville, North Carolina is about 25 miles or so from the South Carolina border. If you continue on south another 20 miles or so, you will arrive at the City of Spartanburg, South Carolina; our destination… Continue reading
Carl Sandburg Home
A few days ago The Nomads visited the Hendersonville Antique Toy Museum. After the museum, we still had daylight. You know what that means. We had more exploring to do. Leaving the Toy Museum there were signs stating that we were not far from The Carl Sandburg Home. It took… Continue reading
The Biltmore Estate
What is over 178,000 square feet, has over 250 rooms, 33 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces, a seven story formal dining room, is the largest house in the United States and was the one destination that Mama Nomad asked for as a Christmas present? That would be the awe-inspiring Biltmore… Continue reading
Hendersonville Antique Toy Museum
Nestled on a side road, not far from downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina you will find a quaint little building with an unassuming sign out front and a small parking lot. If you blinked, you would miss it. And if you missed it, you would miss a fantastic piece of happiness… Continue reading
Mt Mitchell State Park
It is cold, rainy and windy. Let’s go hiking! Sounds like a great plan, right? Well, as true adventurers, we not only decided to go hiking, we set out to conquer the highest mountain peak East of the Mississippi. This was our journey to and up to the peak of… Continue reading
Downtown Asheville
After Christmas and before the New Year, we visited Historic Downtown Asheville, North Carolina to explore the 1.7 mile Urban Trail. This trail leads you through the downtown streets of Asheville showing you its history and its past. There are about 30 stops, complete with markers, sculptures, landmarks and more.… Continue reading
Journey Down The Blue Ridge Parkway
The Nomads took advantage of the sunshine last weekend and embarked on a journey down the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. We started at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center… Continue reading
