The Travels of Eric and Lorna

Sorry for the long delay in putting these up. Since only two people read this, I don't have a great sense of urgency. Today was the actual day of our 25th wedding anniversary, so congratulations to us I guess.  Day 3 was mostly involved with traveling from Nashville, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina, for a stay at The Inn on Biltmore . After a tiring rainy drive, we arrived at the hotel and checked in. This is a swanky hotel located (obviously) on the Biltmore estate. This is not the Biltmore house itself, it's actually a couple miles away (It's a large property. You know, an estate. As in an estate by a Vanderbilt, not a 5 acre property called an estate). It is extremely nice, as you would expect given the location and price. This is the more expensive of the two hotels on the estate. In addition to staying there for three nights, we also had our anniversary dinner at The Dining Room, the nice restaurant there at the hotel. It was a fantastic meal, and ...

So Lorna and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last week with a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, and Townsend, Tennessee. This was a road trip for us, and we took L's car, since it is newer than my outback, and has a lot less miles on it. It did great. Poverty Point is a large Archaic period mound site in northeastern Louisiana.   https://www.nps.gov/popo/index.htm     The largest mound.  After Poverty Point, it was on to Natchez to start the Natchez Trace. In Natchez, Mississippi, we had lunch at King's Tavern , as one does before setting off on the Natchez Trace. I guess to really be authentic we should have gotten a  room for the night, but we still had to make Jackson before we stopped. In all seriousness, King's Tavern is awesome and you should make sure to go here if in Natchez. After lunch, we started the Natchez Trace. Read up on this road a little if you don't know an...

For a short weekend trip in celebration of our 15 th wedding anniversary, L and I decided to make a short weekend trip to Lincoln . Yes, Nebraska . We both too Friday off, and headed out that morning, taking our time, since it is only a little over three hours away by car. We arrived around lunchtime, and dined at a place called Buzzard Billy's , a Cajun place. My shrimp po -boy was very good, as was the locally brewed brown ale. We drove up early so we could go to the National Museum of Roller Skating , which is not open on the weekends. This museum was pretty small, and was kind of funny. There was some interesting stuff there, but I don't think I could recommend going to Lincoln just to see it. Some of the really old skates were fun to see, and some of the costumes from the 70s were a riot. The funniest thing was that the building had a bunch of people working in cubicles for the National Roller Skating Association. I saw at least 12 people working there. Is this o...