Better Late Than Never - the End of Our Adventure

From Leland, NC, we headed west across North Carolina, eventually ending up in the mountains of Western Virginia at The Homestead, an older style resort that they say was originally built in 1766 and had visitors such as G. Washington staying there. It was a magnificent place, one of those bucket list type places that I like to visit and get a chance to stay at for a few days. Very posh, similar to the Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, W. Va. They, for some reason, upgraded our room to a beautiful suite with an outside balcony overlooking the back grounds of the resort where there was an ice skating rink, one of their restaurants (the Casino), and you could see one of their golf courses in the background. Their outside swimming pool was being totally redone to simulate a one acre water park with a lazy river, that kind of stuff. We had a treat Saturday night, for some reason they had a fireworks display and our balcony was great for viewing that show. The restaurants were pretty nice (coats needed in the main dining rooms for the guys), and, of course, they had their famous spas, indoor pool, bowling, a movie theater showing two shows nightly, avenue of shops, a high adventure shop for off-roading, falconry, etc., just an overall very interesting place to visit and stay for a few days. We left for Happy Valley on Sunday morning arriving home around 2PM, all in all a great tropical adventure which we'd like to do part of again, perhaps next Winter. Hopefully attached are a few shots from The Homestead, thanks for following our blog and being a part of our trip. Jim and Sheila