TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

Pretty  Picturesque Prosperous Unlike poor West Virginia, on which more later. Watch this space.

 Along the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, with patches of mist rising and a darkening sky. The morning had been cold and rainy. ...

Driving on through Georgia we passed endless pecan orchards. The nut trees taller than you'd imagine a nut treeever  ought to be, all i...

The azaleas at the biker village were just glorious. That's one of the nice things about a spring road trip north from Florida; you d...

  Now you can have an image of  a place before you see it. Somehow I imagined Warm Springs in Georgia to be  a sweet little spa town - some...

 To devotees of "Gone With the Wind", that will be a familiar line. And it is indeed red. Lanes like these stretch for mile...

And a lovely little town called Thomasville. Another of those American places with rather English-looking buildings. Courtyar...