Opps! Yesterday I dated March 29 as the 30th. If you look at the photos you'll find the correct date.
Anyway forward -----------
March 30
Drove in the rain from Concord to Asheville, 135 miles. Arrived at expensive campground, closest to Biltmore House, good wifi, cable does not work so was able to get the satellite to work in spite of lots of trees. Got set up and made our way to Nine Mile, a restaurant recommended on Trip Advisor. We found it using the GPS got seated and read the menu. Iris had squash, zucchini, red peppers, shrimp in siraccchi sauce over linguine topped with scollops. Bob had scollops and mussels with squash, zucchini, sun dried tomatoes over pasta. It was very good with a glass of French white wine.
From Nine Mile we drove to the Basilica of Saint Lawrence, built 1905-06, very impressive, built in Spanish Renaissance style with domed roof. The architect was Rafael Guastavino from Barcelona, emigrated to USA in the mid-1880’s to work on Biltmore House. No wood or steel beams were used in the entire structure. All the stained glass windows from Munich are beautiful. Not being Catholic we learned that the basilica designation is bestowed by the pope to certain churches because of their antiquity, dignity, historical importance or significance as a place of worship. Presently there are only 56 basilica in the USA.
From the church we drove to Grove Park Inn, an Omni Hotel, built early 1900's, rest stop for many famous people including the "vagabonds", Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Firestone. Huge fireplaces using 6' logs, shops, originally 130 rooms now over 500, interesting architecture.
Back to the motorhome for happy hour, dinner of left-over BBQ, some HGTV that Bob slept through then to bed but disturbed much of the night by the rain.
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