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USA RV Trip 2022
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- May 30, 2022, 10:51am
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 694 m
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.541046, -82.54977435°32’28” N 82°32’59” W
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Biltmore Estate, Ashville NC
May 30, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The country cottage estate of the Vanderbilts. Can’t imagine the size of this until you physically see it for real and experience it. It’s actually bigger than their Rhode Island home which is also humungous. Built in the late 1800’s by the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, George.
The grandchildren of Cornelius all built massive mansions, in New York, Rhode Island. In fact they built 10 along 5th Ave Manhattan, but now all succumbed to the high rises.Read more
Traveler Find any relatives
6/1/22Reply
Traveler Unfortunately not. Very impressive house, if you can call it that. I could just picture all the ladies in their beautiful dresses.
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USA RV Trip 2022
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- May 30, 2022, 2:23pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 686 m
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.540967, -82.5527835°32’27” N 82°33’10” W
Day 34
Biltmore Mansion
May 30, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Snaps from inside the mansion. Still furnished as it was lived in at the time of George Washington Vanderbilt. 1895-1914.
His grandfather Cornelius built the empire, his father William doubled the empire, and George and his siblings spent the empire. So typical.Read more
Traveler Just think we were still living with dirt floors in aus at this time
6/1/22Reply
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Traveler Tail of the Dragon
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- May 14, 2016, 10:45am
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 2,251 ft
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.54061, -82.5523235°32’26” N 82°33’8” W
Day 15
Biltmore Estate
May 14, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The camera in this phone takes good quality pictures but something about the zoom or field of view or something is too small. I could hardly get any good shots of anything in the house.

Biltmore is "America's Largest House" (trademark.) The house is 120 (?) acres (house only), 250 rooms, 70 bathrooms, indoor bowling alley, indoor pool, Otis elevators (house had cutting edge amenities from day 1, including central heat and its own phone system.) Vanderbilt (grandson of the train baron) eventually bought 100,000 (?) acres of the surrounding land - land denuded of all trees in his time. Frederick Law Olmsted, his landscaper, was one of the first Americans to realize land needed conservation. Vanderbilt's efforts led to the creation of the US Forestry Service. The drive to the house is 3 miles through magnificent (man-made) landscape. By buggy this was 45 minutes. You were supposed to leave your cares behind. The driveway enters the grounds parallel to the house - so you can't see it till you turn the corner. The grounds are similarly laid out with genius. The compound is so big they have fly fishing lessons, Range Rover offroading lessons, etc. The house is full of Renoirs, Singer Sargents, a Ming vase or 3, Albrecht Durer engravings, etc.

1 cantilevered giant spiral staircase
2 where to start? roof is 5 stories up and still is monogramed. House has 50 fireplaces and 16 chimneys, hmm. House has gargoyles but high tech invention downspouts
3 main dining hall, 3 fireplaces
4 giant organ opposite fireplaces
5 two stories floor to ceiling of books, spiral staircase, giant fireplace, door hidden behind 2nd story of fireplace so guests in bedrooms could get a book. Vanderbilt picked every book himself.Read more
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- May 14, 2016, 12:53pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 2,251 ft
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.54061, -82.5523235°32’26” N 82°33’8” W
Day 15
Biltmore
May 14, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
1 individual changing rooms for ladies to get into their bathing suits
2 pool. Not pictured: old-timey gym, steam bath box thing, etc
3 one of several storerooms. House had a walk-in refrigerated room.
4 turns out this wasn't the laundry room. The real one had industrial sized equipment
5 this is Joan of Arc. There ain't a lot of female saints to go opposite your males. some of the grotesques were griffins, notable persons, a bear with a honeypotRead more
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Traveler New Mexico, Utah, Colorado
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- Jul 10, 2023, 9:07am
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 619 m
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Bent Creek Austin Branch 35.513333, -82.58535°30’48” N 82°35’6” W
Day 17
Day 17- Home Sweet Home
July 10, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Stopped at a rest area right across the Tennessee state line this morning about 1:45am. Slept for a bit and back on the road 6:45am. The fog is really thick this morning. Arrived home at noon.... We traveled 4788 miles on our journey. What a Fabulous vacation!Read more
Traveler Yay happy you guys made it home safely 💕
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Ryan Herbert USA Trip
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- May 30, 2016, 11:49pm
- 🌧 18 °C
- Altitude: 667 m
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County West Haven Long Shoals 35.48122, -82.5484735°28’52” N 82°32’54” W
Day 4
Asheville, North Carolina
May 30, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Staying with Alex in Asheville/Arden! Drove in this morning after being blessed by the Spirit Dog of Lake Hickory, and the mountain views were gorgeous. Some great Target deals this week, so we're working on those and on optimizing the car storage! Leaving Wednesday morning for Knoxville, then Nashville.Read more
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Traveler A Magical Spring Break 2022
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- Mar 14, 2022, 9:00am
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 646 m
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County West Haven Ducker Creek 35.485217, -82.5530735°29’7” N 82°33’11” W
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Another Broken Day
March 14, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
We left home and drove to Another Broken Egg Cafe at Biltmore Park near Asheville. I ordered the Bourbon Street Pancakes. The service was terrible. The food was cold. I received bacon instead of sausage. ABEC was a HUGE disappointment. It’s typically a great place to eat.

Liz and I walked to the Barnes and Noble in the same shopping complex as ABEC. I purchased a paperback copy of Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett, two Harry Potter blind packs, and something for Liz. That I cannot recall at the moment.

We were going to drive to B&N but the car wouldn’t start. This led to a great deal of phone calls to car rental places, auto repair shops, and Geico Insurance. Turns out, the rental reimbursement we have on our policy only covers new cars. 🤬

We had the Jeep towed to Skyland Exxon. Liz and I stayed back at Biltmore Park in case we needed to Uber to the airport for a rental. We finally gave up waiting and walked to the nearby McDonalds for a drink. I had Diet Coke and a strawberry and crème pie. Liz has a Sprite.

I’m not sure how long we waited before mom called to tell us the car was fixed and to send money. The repair was $107 and some change. The wire to the starter was too short and had broken off. Mom met Liz and I at the CVS across the street from the previously mentioned McDonalds. Liz bought a couple of planting kits (lavender and strawberries) and a die cast car for David.

We left Asheville before anything else unfortunate could happen and headed to Charlotte. We made a quick stop at IKEA to pick up a Detolf cabinet for my Harry Potter stuff. After a quick stop at Chinese Palace for some General’s chicken, we finally ended out day at the Days Inn near the Charlotte airport. The hotel has seen better days but served its purpose.Read more
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- May 14, 2016, 1:07pm
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 2,238 ft
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.54087, -82.5529235°32’27” N 82°33’11” W
Day 15
Biltmore Estate
May 14, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The numbers are staggering. Pics to come.
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Winter 24
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- Apr 23, 2024, 10:19am
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 2,251 ft
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.540832, -82.55272735°32’27” N 82°33’10” W
Day 105
Biltmore Estate
April 23 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Spent the day touring the Biltmore Estate (8,000 acres), gardens and winery. The house and story was amazing. All the furnishings are original to the house, all 175,000 sq ft of it. We toured so many rooms including dining rooms, billard room, living areas, bedrooms, music room, guest areas, kitchens, laundry, servant quarters, indoor pool, bowling alley and gym. The gardens were very pretty with azaleas in full bloom. We had lunch in the Stables, had a wine tasting and then ice cream made in the creamery. I took over 250 pictures.Read more
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BTheEPIC Road Trip 2021
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- Jun 9, 2021, 12:40pm
- ⛅ 79 °F
- Altitude: 2,251 ft
- United States North Carolina Buncombe County Rosebank Park Walled Garden 35.540695, -82.55265835°32’27” N 82°33’10” W
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Biltmore Estate (House and Garden)
June 9, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
We visited the Biltmore Estate, touring the house with the audio tour and visiting the garden, including the Conservatory in which a model train runs through all the plants.
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