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  • Welcome to North Carolina

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    Posted on July 4th, 2009sherryPhotography

    From the deck at the welcome center

    vista with power cables

    Two views from the North Carolina welcome center on I-40. Driving I-40 was an experience, especially on the Fourth weekend when everybody in the southeast seemed to be headed to the Smokies — or maybe to Dollywood.

    Here at Wildacres there are no power cables to mar the view (they’re there in the bottom photo running between the trees but resolution may not be good enough for them to show). We are right on top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge. Right now I’m off to walk the trail around the mountain top.

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2 Responses to “Welcome to North Carolina”

  1. Jason Riedy July 4th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Cool! I normally drive through on I-26. There aren’t obviously handy trails. I might try I-40 next weekend.

  2. sherry July 5th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    I thought about coming east and then south, but I’d also have had to go north and so it would have added about 2 h to my trip. I wanted scenic but I-40 offered about all I could handle driving alone.

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