I write this as Storm Nelson batters the south of England. It seems to have been raining for months and months. Will it ever stop? ☔️
As it’s such an awful day, I decided it was time to start writing about our holiday this year commencing on 25th April.
We are very excited about our holiday as this will be our first visit to the East Coast in seven years and we will be visiting new places as well as catching up with dear friends who we have not seen since 2017.
We are visiting the States a little earlier than usual as our first port of call will be to visit the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The estate consists of a historic house museum and beautiful gardens. It was built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States. We are told the best time to visit the wonderful gardens is in April. Hence, the reason our holiday is starting a little earlier than usual.
We will be flying into Atlanta, overnighting there and then driving to Asheville and it’s there that we will meet up with the first of our dear friends, Denise and Desiree.
Followers of our blog may remember that they are the sisters we first met up with in London in 2012. Denise was the winner of the Sony Worldwide Landscape Photographic Competition in 2012 and she and Desiree had travelled to London to collect her prize. Simon knew Denise from his days on Flickr the photographic site. We’ve remained friends ever since.
We will then travel to Babcock State Park in West Virginia, staying overnight, before driving to Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania to visit Rickett’s Glen State Park to see the numerous waterfalls. There is also the possibility of us doing a little gambling too as there is a casino in Wilkes-Barre! 😱
Fingers crossed, we may be able to replicate our large win at the end of our 2023 holiday in Las Vegas last year!🤞
From there, we will travel to Upstate New York to meet up with our other dear friends, Dot and Nat. Again, followers of the blog will know that we first met them both in the good old Twilight Saga film days, that was 15 years ago😱and our friendship is still going strong!
Our final destination will be to Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, New York State. The winter Olympics have been held there twice, in 1932 and 1980.
From there we will drive to Boston to fly home.
We look forward to you joining us on our new adventure.
See you soon! 😀
