A memorable holiday in a corner of the country that forgot to Internet

My wife Diana and I had just come back from a lovely summer holiday which, for the first time I can remember, took me beyond the long reach of the Internet during the fourth weekend of July. Before fully escape the clutches of the web, we began the journey (June 30) last Wednesday in Asheville, North Carolina, a popular destination in the mountains to the scenic western border of the State of grace. We went to Asheville because we had always wanted to see the famous Biltmore Mansion, the largest private residence ever built in America.  Mansion of Biltmore in Asheville, NC
(is sitting on the edge of the source Diana in foreground) 175,000 Square foot House, with 250 rooms, including 40 baths, was built in an impressive estate 8,000 acres by George Washington Vanderbilt for a period of six years from 1889-1895. It is still owned by his descendants today, but the House and its fabulous gardens have been open to the public since 1930 and farm attracts more than a million visitors annually. The House is even more spectacular interior but photos are not allowed indoors so unfortunately that I cannot share these places with you. If you get the chance to go see it for yourself, do it - never assure that it will be not disappointed. We spent a couple of days in Asheville, then rent a car and drove to a little over two hours south to historic Abbeville, South Carolina (first meeting to consider the possibility of seceding from the Union was held there in 1860 and five years later, the Confederate President Jefferson Davis met in Abbeville his generals to decide whether or not to continue the fight in the civil war.) The decision to surrender was made and subsequently executed by the general Robert e. Lee at Appomattox). Hearthside Manor, bed and breakfasts where we stayed in the rich history of Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina and beautiful Victorian houses (we stayed in one – a charming B & B, called the Hearthside Manor) were not the reason we went to Abbeville. Our eldest daughter and her husband had purchased a House of the Secession of Lake, 15 km northwest of Abbeville, on holiday in hosted a little over a year that is done, and invited us to come to see him and spend the fourth of July weekend with them and their friends. Live statewide in Charleston and have been driving four hours to Abbeville almost every weekend because they bought the place. I don't like to drive around the block and could not understand why anyone would such a trip so often.Now I know. Above: a view of Lake secession of the Lake House.
Bottom: Departure on July 4 with our son-in-law Pat, the wheel of your pontoon boat on the Lake. Didn't have no Internet access in the Lake and mobile telephones worked only occasionally, leaving me off from the outside world for the first time since the entry into the business domain. I am busy normally every minute awakening as spending every hour of every day just to enjoy the landscape and talk to family and new friends made to feel as if it had dropped to a crawl. Although we were far less than a week, she felt as he had a break from month duration of normal routine. People with homes in the Lake have formed close friendship and spend a lot of time together.On the night of the 4th, join some 30 persons (including children, parents and grandparents), Chris Brown neighbor to a large barbecue House.Brown owns a popular local grocery store (Corley market in Greenwood, SC) and he knows how to make a right of parrillada.Al falling darkness, all create chairs along the coast of the House for the annual fireworks show the stages of the city on the Lake. Above: show our chairs moving down to the coast to see the 4th of July Fireworks.
Below: A rocket explodes on Lake of secession.

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