We spent Thanksgiving in Nashville. Stayed at the Union Station Hotel, below, which, as the name suggests, used to be the Nashville train station. First stop was the Country Music Hall of Fame. It was well done. Lots of artifacts from the development of the music from its earliest folk music roots, to its [...]
It's day 4 of our road trip. Today's itinerary: explore the town of Asheville, then drive towards Nashville. We spent the night at the Haywood hotel, a building converted from its orignal use as department store. For authenticity, the elevators still announced "Fourth floor, children's wear" ever time we returned to our room. Pretty cheesy, [...]
Heidi says, this is turning into an architectural roadtrip. Next stop, the Biltmore Estate: the largest private residence in America, and an inspiration to hedge fund managers everywhere. Being noobs, we had no idea what to expect. We plotted the route on the iPad and set out from the Black Walnut for the 10 km [...]
We drove from Fallingwater to Asheville, but arrived long after the visitor's centre had closed. Hotel Tonight, the app that had guided us so well in Pittsburgh was showing squat in Asheville. We drove around in the dark, wondering what to do. Then we passed a sign for The Lion & The Rose, a [...]
After Pittsburgh, we drove to Fallingwater, the home designed for Edgar Kaufman, owner of Kaufman's department stores in Pittsburgh. You know this place, even if you don't think so, you do. The picture above, is probably duplicated in hundreds of thousands of vacation photo albums. See here, or here, or here. It's a stunning building to [...]
