Two Weeks
15 days · ~1800 miles · from Washington, DC
Mountains down, coast back: the Civil War quadrilateral, the Valley Pike, Virginia's music road, the Parkway's whole southern half, Georgia's 441 spine — returning up the Lowcountry's oyster route.
This trip chains: Bull Run to the Bloody Angle · The Valley Pike · The Crooked Road · Blue Ridge Parkway & the Smokies · Sherman to the Swamp · Kings Highway & the Lowcountry
Manassas and Mosby's US 50 — into cavalry country.
Brandy Station, Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg's stone wall.
Spotsylvania and Guinea Station, then US 17/50 west to Winchester: Patsy Cline's town.
Cedar Creek, New Market's cadets, Luray's stone organ — Staunton for Shakespeare by candlelight.
Lee, Jackson and Little Sorrel; Natural Bridge and the dinosaur war; Texas Tavern nightcap.
Parkway plateau to the Friday Night Jamboree — planned that way, obviously.
Galax, Grayson ponies, Damascus — Carter Fold Saturday night.
Sessions museum, then the high Parkway: Doughton, frescoes, the Rock.
Oz ruins, Linn Cove, Mount Mitchell's roof — Asheville evening.
MP 469, the Museum of the Cherokee People, then US 441 south past goats-on-roof to the gorge.
R.E.M.'s steeple, the self-owning tree, Madison's columns, O'Connor's peacocks.
King's first speech in Dublin, Little Liberty, blackwater sunset boat at Stephen Foster.
Train-watching breakfast at the Funnel, Golden Isles northbound: Jekyll's driftwood, Midway church — Savannah squares by evening.
US 17 north: Penn Center & Beaufort spur, Old Sheldon ruins, Bowens Island oysters at five.
Sweetgrass stands, Georgetown's rice tower, Pawleys hammock — and north with the windows down (South of the Border for the true believers).