Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Crossing The Eastern Divide

Yesterday morning, nosotros left Knoxville, driving eastward through the foggy Tennessee Valley.  After crossing the Holston in addition to French Broad Rivers (which bring together to degree the Tennessee), nosotros climbed into the Blue Ridge Mountains, next the course of written report of the Pigeon River.  Leveling out W of Asheville, nosotros crossed the dissever betwixt the Pigeon in addition to the French Broad Rivers, encountering the largest concentration of tent caterpillars that I convey e'er seen.

At Asheville, nosotros angled southward on Interstate 26 in addition to crossed the Eastern Divide but southward of Hendersonville; this Divide, which snakes due north to southward through Eastern Canada in addition to the Eastern U.S., separates the watersheds of rivers flowing to the Gulf of United Mexican States from those flowing toward the Atlantic Ocean.  South of the Divide, nosotros shortly arrived at the border of the Blue Ridge Mountains in addition to were treated to a spectacular persuasion of the Southeastern Piedmont.

After undulating across the Piedmont, hemmed inwards past times a pine-broadleaf forest, nosotros crossed the Fall Line at Columbia, leaving the Precambrian bedrock of the Blue Ridge in addition to Piedmont in addition to traveling across the flat, sandy reason of the Coastal Plain.  We'll pass a few days along the South Carolina coast earlier heading southward to Florida.

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