Driving through the Upland South, US

United States

29 Nov

Written By Mark Eaglesfield

Over a fortnight, my mother and I drove in a great arc from Kansas City, through the Ozark Plateau and Appalachia, to Boston.

Osage Plains and Ozark Plateau, Missouri

Truman Reservoir, Osage Plains, Missouri

Ozarks reflected on the hood, US Route 65

White River, Branson, Missouri

Lowland interlude: Memphis, Mississippi, Alabama

Mississippi River from Mud Island, Memphis

Courthouse Square, Oxford, Mississippi

William Faulkner's Rowanoak, Oxford

Tennessee River, Decatur, Alabama

Appalachia

Tennessee

Chattanooga from Lookout Mtn

Gatlinburg Trail

Canada geese

View from Kuwohi (Clingsmans Dome), Great Smoky Mtns

Blue Ridge Mountains, Southwestern Virginia

Roanoke from Mill Mtn.

Detour on the backest of back roads.

Secluded 'holler' with traditional farmstead?

Peaks of Otter

POV: Your rental car defeats a leaf eddy.

Piedmont and Great Valley hills, western Virginia

Natural Bridge

Washington and Lee University

On the highway approaching Staunton.

Approaching Staunton.

Staunton

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

1st of 5 deer we saw walking in these woods.

Hiking to Stony Man Summit.

Stony Man Summit, looking west.

Shenandoah Valley

Dickey Ridge.

Shenandoah Valley Overlook.

West Virginia and Maryland

Potomac & Shenandoah Rivers, Harper's Ferry, WV

Civil War's Antietam battlefield

My great-great-great-grandfather died on this battlefield.

Mark Eaglesfield

The Apprentice via Lewis Tops, Lewis Pass, NZ