The trip in short
From Atlanta into the mountains: three nights at Gatlinburg for Great Smoky Mountains, the most visited national park in the US, its ridges blue in the haze. At Asheville the Blue Ridge Parkway begins, and the Biltmore Estate is the largest house in America. Then down to the coast, to Charleston's Rainbow Row and plantations, and the squares and Forsyth Park of Savannah. Mountains and the old South in the Southeast, among the national parks trips and, in October, the autumn trips.