Cissy and I enjoyed an overnight trip to Highlands NC this week. We left home about 11 a.m. on Monday morning. Along the way we stopped in Ellijay at the Ponderosa for fried apple pies and later in Clayton for a hamburger. We arrived in Highlands mid-afternoon. We drove around town and saw so several new magnificent developments with great homes in spectacular settings.
We chose to stay at the Higlands Inn which is located on Main Street. As their website (http://www.highlandsinn-nc.com/) states, “This historic 31-room inn offers guests the gracious Southern mountain hospitality of yesteryear amidst the everyday convenience of the modern traveler. As you step into the warm, welcoming lobby you step back into history of times long ago. Each season the horse-drawn carriages of wealthy southerners, mostly from the coastal lowlands, journeyed the 4180' elevation through the Blue Ridge Mountains to Highlands to escape the heat of summer. The Inn has maintained its exterior and interior personality through the past 127 years. Guests appreciate our antique furnishings, colonial paints, wall coverings and stenciling by master artists.”
I took a brief afternoon nap while Cissy visited the many shops along Main Street. Then we took the ten minute drive out to Dry Falls to see one of my favorite waterfalls.
Across from the Inn we stopped at a little sandwich shop to get food to take for our supper on Sunset Rock located five minutes away from downtown. After a restful evening sleep we ate an awesome breakfast at the Inn. The meal lasted us until we got home early evening.
We set out for Whiteside Mountain, just a ten minute drive from downtown. The main reason for this whole trip at this time was to see the trillium in bloom on top of the mountain. We were not disappointed after our leisurely twenty minute hike to the summit. Trillium and other blooms swayed in the swift breeze on a beautiful sunny day. The wonder of God’s creation is so awesome!
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