Blue Ridge Parkway-June 6, 2011

We went to the office to check in this morning. Bill seems like a nice man, but his dog is odd. It crawled under a blanket to bark at us. Jerry said to Bill, "Your blanket is barking" and Bill just nodded his head. You know along life's way you meet lots of odd people, but so few odd dogs. Well, we met one today. We then decided to check out the Blue Ridge Parkway. We went all the way to the Cherokee Indian Reservation "on the other end" in Cherokee, NC.  What a pretty and breathtaking drive. At the peak we were over 6000 feet in elevation. Since our Loveland house was at 5115 feet, we felt right at home. The interesting part of this drive was not just the vistas, but the fact that there were such pretty flowers blooming at that altitude. We have no idea what they were, but they were such bright vivid colors of orange, fuschia, pink, yellow and white. What a treat. There were views from the top of nothing but one valley after another full of trees. Looked like gigantic bowls of trees, or even gigantic broccoli. We passed close to 200 motorcycles today, going in the opposite direction. We wondered why so many people were not working? We even talked to one couple on a Harley at one of the lookout points. They were very, very nice and we enjoyed talking to them. Their Harley was the same color as our CRV, so that was a big topic of conversation. We came back home on a different road. I should say we flew home. People drive very fast here. We covered a lot of miles today so tomorrow we will stay closer and go to the Biltmore House.