the road to Burks Garden (1 of 1)
Sometimes we make snap decisions that aren't at all the wise ones to make! After Anita's daredevil climb up the tower we turned up this gravel road following a sign that said Burke's Garden. Little did we know! Looks like an innocent country gravel single track road right? With Beautiful flowers lining it and lush farm fields around. It turned into a mountain climbing, winding, twisting and nearly unnavigable road with rocks protruding out of it that could pop tires and washouts that could only be navigated at a crawl! Choices were made between driving into a two foot deep wash out and clinging to the edge of a hundreds foot long drop off! Finally we reached the top and began the descent. We noticed on one side of the road dozens of jugs and a few large water coolers and surmised it was either someone's moonshine still nearby (lots of jokes on that!) or there was a natural spring where people could get fresh mountain water. We found out later it was for people walking the Appalachian trail and the community of Burke's Garden would keep the jugs full of fresh water for the hikers! More on Burke's Garden tomorrow. It really was a very special place!
the road to Burks Garden (1 of 1)
Sometimes we make snap decisions that aren't at all the wise ones to make! After Anita's daredevil climb up the tower we turned up this gravel road following a sign that said Burke's Garden. Little did we know! Looks like an innocent country gravel single track road right? With Beautiful flowers lining it and lush farm fields around. It turned into a mountain climbing, winding, twisting and nearly unnavigable road with rocks protruding out of it that could pop tires and washouts that could only be navigated at a crawl! Choices were made between driving into a two foot deep wash out and clinging to the edge of a hundreds foot long drop off! Finally we reached the top and began the descent. We noticed on one side of the road dozens of jugs and a few large water coolers and surmised it was either someone's moonshine still nearby (lots of jokes on that!) or there was a natural spring where people could get fresh mountain water. We found out later it was for people walking the Appalachian trail and the community of Burke's Garden would keep the jugs full of fresh water for the hikers! More on Burke's Garden tomorrow. It really was a very special place!