Mr. H and I have recently returned from our 25th anniversary trip. It had to be postponed for a couple of months due to our eldest's graduation from high school and all the events that surrounded that. (I don't remember having that many banquets and ceremonies to attend when I graduated, but that was several decades ago!)
Our trip took us through Chattanouga, TN, then on to Asheville, NC. We toured the Biltmore Estate http://www.biltmore.com/; rode the Great Smokey Mountain Railway http://www.gsmr.com/ up the Nantahala River Gorge from Bryson City; and (Mr. H's favorite) rode the Dragon's Tail at Deal's Gap http://www.dealsgap.com/. (I'm not sure where the picture was taken that's on Deal's Gap's homepage, but those mountains definitely look more Rocky than Smokey!) 
This picture was supposed to be of the trestle bridge where the train stopped for a photo opportunity, (you can barely see it where the train disappears), but we were in the last car of a long train.
Can you imagine this view from your back porch? Actually, the Biltmore's back porch is a loggia, which I suspect is just a fancy name for porch.
This was our first long motorcycle trip. We had a blast! We bought a comm system so that we could talk to each other. I can't imagine riding for a whole day (the trip home Friday was 600 miles: from 7:30 a.m. eastern time til 8:15 p.m. central time) and only being able to talk when we stopped. A friend of Mr. H's asked if it got old, with nothing to do but talk for that long. My beloved gave his friend a very profound answer: The charms of youth fade quickly, but love resides in the mind. He told his friend that he liked to talk to me before he married me and that hadn't changed. What a wise man the Lord gave me!
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