Blue Road Adventures: Treasures of the two lanes.

When we first relocated here to North Carolina, we spent every weekend traveling the state. In fact, when I moved here, Mary was still in Michigan. I would go out on the weekends and she was home in Michigan as we talked on the phone. She was my GPS as I told her where I was and she went to google maps and followed along. She was instrumental in helping me find my way home more than once.
After Mary moved here, we continued our country side tours. But now we had a dash mounted GPS. We would head out Saturday morning around 6:00 A.M. All we had was a county for a destination and our two hounds. We were always excited to come across a brown and white sign--a sure clue there was a point of interest we had to see. While touring the central part of North Carolina around Asheboro, we found this sign---

Pisgaha Covered Bridge
Naturally we had to see the bridge. We started following the signs and the directional arrows. Now had we a paper map, it was probably a little easier to get to than the signs had us go. But 20 some miles later we were driving right past the bridge. It is located off the two-lane. below road level and if you didn't know it was there--well you'd drive right on by.

You have to enter on a road that might be wide enough for 1 full size car and a smart car. You drive down along the roadway to where there is a cul-de-sac and there is the bridge and a pathway that takes you around the woods and across the semi-dry creek to the other side of the bridge. Of course you can just walk though the bridge and arrive in the same place.
Here in the middle of Blue Road Country, a late 1800s covered bridge stands in its original spot. It has been rebuilt and supported by the state through donations. When you walk in under the bridge, the beams are massive. Once your eyes adjust, you see the real reconstruction--

People actually carry the stuff with them to vandalize structures? When do they have the opportunity to do this? They must come back at night?

When we returned home, we found out there are just a few covered bridges in North Carolina in their original placements. There one named Bunker Hill Covered Bridge just the other side of Salisbury. Both are off the mainroad and were once the thoroughfare for the area. Both have also been rebuilt and names state historical landmarks.