Ann's Great American Road Trip Adventure: Arab, AL to Asheville, NC & Home: The Rest of the Story

From phone call to great road trip adventure!

I started blogging a few years ago when I made the cross country trip from Los Angeles, California to Wake Forest, North Carolina. Blogging turned out to be a fun experience, so now I continue to blog about all of my travels. I try to make it interesting for everyone and hope that people can travel with me through my blogging. To learn why I started blogging in the first place, just continue reading and the next paragraph will explain how it all got started. So sit back, read the post, view the pictures and travel with me via my blog.

One of my dreams ever since I can remember was to take a cross country road trip to see America. Never in a million years did I think I would realize this dream. My dream was set in motion when I answered the telephone and my son Chris (who lived in Los Angeles at the time) called to tell me he had accepted a job in New York City. He went on to say he would not be taking his car with him to New York but would be driving his car from California back to North Carolina. Light bulbs went off in my brain at that point, so I told him I would fly to Los Angeles and ride with him back to North Carolina. Thus my great road trip adventure came to be. But this is only the beginning as it hasn't started yet. We are in the planning stages of where we are going to stop along the way and what we want to see. We only have 10 days to go from west to east and so the planning begins. I hope you will follow me as I blog my way across America. I'm new at blogging so please be patient. I hope to blog daily and post pictures along the way. Thanks to Chris for making it happen and to Julie for telling me to "go for it" and to seize this "once in a lifetime opportunity". I'm glad I did!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Arab, AL to Asheville, NC & Home: The Rest of the Story

Alabama storm shelter

David and his children

Yes we made it to the Unclaimed Baggage Store

It seems like nowadays when you take a vacation, it takes you another week to recoup from your vacation. I have been home a week and I still have not quite gotten over the vacation yet! That being said I decided to write one last blog to tell what I left out and post additional pictures I took along the way.

About 5 miles before you get to the coon dog cemetery there is the Rattlesnake Saloon. The lady working in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame gift shop told us about the saloon. She told us it had been opened for about 2 years, was reasonably priced, good food, and was the "talk of the town". We decided we would stop there for lunch on our way to the cemetery. What the lady failed to tell us was that it is only opened on weekends and we was there on a Monday. You can't see the saloon from the parking lot because it is down a mountain trail that is only accessible by 4 wheel drive vehicles. When they are open, 4 wheel drive trucks run every 20 minutes between the parking lot and the saloon. The saloon itself is inside a mountain and has an old-fashioned saloon feel with swinging doors and hitching post. I didn't take any pictures since you are not allowed to walk down the trail. If you want to find out more information about the Rattlesnake Saloon go to www.sevenspringslodge.net. The Rattlesnake Saloon is definitely on my list of places to visit my next trip to see David and Lorene in Alabama.

We spent two nights in Asheville on our way back home. We spent most of Saturday in downtown Asheville browsing through the unique shops. We ate dinner in the side alley of a Mexican restaurant. Throughout the day there was lots of entertainment by local musicians, clowns, and mimes. I love riding in the North Carolina mountains, I like calling North Carolina home, and I am so glad to be back home!