I agree Bobertz.........The Biltmore is one of Karen's favorite places and is well worth the time. Asheville was a vacationing spot of the super-rich and has a lot of history.

I agree also that there are so many beautiful and woderful places in the mountains that time might be better spent without side trips for more of the same. I don't mean to make it sound boring by any means and certainly not like this lady I remember encountering at Cumberland Falls..............

My college roommate Matt and I were down at Cumberland Falls and had been hiking far down the gorge below the falls. This was post-college and we were in our late 20's and enjoyed the awesome and wonderful flora and fauna and the amazing rock formations. Its a truly beautiful place in the Appalachian foothills of southern Kentucky and I used to spend many a fine day in and around there.

We were approaching "civilization" again only a few hundred yards below the falls and came upon a middle aged couple. The wife looked exasperated and I guess she was as she asked, "Is there anything else to see down that way beside the rocks and the woods and the river?"

Matt and I just kinda' stared at her and then at each other and Matt replied in that wonderful Kentucky drawl of his, "No Ma'am......Ahm real sorry but I reckon that's about all there is."


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