Blue Ridge Mtns & the Smoky Mtns

<><>

<>

<><>

RV & VR & Annamarie Mille High in the Smokys

RV & VR entering the Blue Ridge Pkwy

While in  Lenoir we took a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  How many times can one say beautiful.? ?  I suppose I could look in the Thesaurus!
 After leaving Lenoir, S.C., we travelled to the Great Smoky Mtns.  The Big Green Turtle took the mountains well!  We stayed with the National Park Service.  There are no hook ups, which means we become self-sufficient.  Our  tanks hold water, grey water & black water.  We have solar panels on the Big Green Turtle which provides our electric.
 I have advocated solar for many years.  We installed a solar hot water heater, in our stick home, and it heats our 20' x 20' family room with the most even heat you could want!
Just down the road from the Nationa Park Campground is an old Grist Mill.

Old Grist Mill grinding stones

There is an old 'grist mill' down the road.  It was very interesting to see the sloth and the size of the stones used to grind the grain  I had read about them. Seeing it is another.

<><>

<>

<><>

RV & VR behind the grist mill
 The Gist Mill