Fall colors are further along as we head south, go figure!  It seems to be a combination of altitude and rainfall.  Anyway, it is beautiful.

Roads are curlier and more mountainous.  We crossed the Linville viaduct.  It is about a half mile section that passes through a deep gorge on the flank of the Blue Ridge.  It wasn’t finished until 1987, some 25 years after the rest of the road.  It is pretty amazing construction in unbelievable terrain.