Heading south to continue the history tour, the travelers head to the famed home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia...beautiful Monticello.
By the way he didn't follow these rules very well...he was deeply in debt when he died.
Then a great drive down the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, part of the Appalachian mountains... A gorgeous scenic highway. Of course, Robin doesn't consider 4000' a mountain but people in the east sure do!
An old farmstead along the parkway.
Lovely scenery along the trail. We then headed to Nashville and bought tickets for the Grand Ole Opry...what a hoot! Saw a great show including The Charley Daniels Band. 
The history tour then resumed at the Hermitage just outside Nashville. This is the awesome home of Andrew
Jackson.
Then onward to the famous Natchez Trace National Parkway. Another historical space...the first government sponsored road in the western frontier. And by the by, Meriweather Lewis of the famed Lewis and Clark met his demise mysteriously on this trail.
Then onward to the home of Elvis in Memphis.
Then we crossed the Mississippi into Arkansas through Little Rock and followed along the Trail of Tears...of great interest to Robin who has a tiny bit of Cherokee blood flowing through her veins.
Through Arkansas and then through Oklahoma with a brief stop in Oklahoma City for Robin to visit her mother's gravesite.
We are homeward bound and anxious to get back to the west coast...they are west coast people after all! And I am a west coast camper!
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