On our second journey to Orlando, we drove from Naperville, Illinois. The yr earlier than we flew on United Airlines and this 12 months we flew on Southwest. This web page depicts our driving journey, some things we noticed alongside the way, somes tools we used to get from Naperville to Orlando, and my regular ramblings alongside the way.
The next day, we’re off to the Elijah Mountain Gem Mine near Asheville, North Carolina. If you’ve never been Gem Mining, here is the concept, you get a bucket of grime and using water, you wash all of the grime off and what is left ought to be, rocks and gems and things. You by no means know what your going to get and typically you get nothing. So, in the event you don’t need to get nothing, then you definitely go to Elijah’s, the place they have premade buckets with gems already in them. They also have buckets with Indian Artifacts and Fossils. Probably not prospecting here, however the children have a variety of enjoyable because the sand sifts away and they see multi-colored gem stones. This stop was a couple of miles off of the expressway into Asheville. Different … Read More