{"id":11052,"date":"2026-03-15T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=11052"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:22:35","slug":"blue-ridge-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=11052","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ridge Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Friday after we finished up our tour with Mallory, Boo, Meg &amp; I headed to Lake Junaluska, where we met Andy, Amy, and Sherri for a siblings weekend.  We sure missed Zollie a lot.  Saturday morning they were having a trash pickup around the lake, and those who were bodily healthy enough participated in that.  Sherri with her broken back and me with my sick knees stayed at the Air BnB &amp; had fun catching up.  That afternoon after lunch we all went on a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway, from where we got on near there to where it ended in Cherokee.  It was so, so pretty.  We stopped at several overlooks, and every time we kept saying that the pictures would never do the view justice, and we were right.  Here are a couple, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5172-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5182-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday after we finished up our tour with Mallory, Boo, Meg &amp; I headed to Lake Junaluska, where we met Andy, Amy, and Sherri for a siblings weekend. We sure missed Zollie a lot. Saturday morning they were having a trash pickup around the lake, and those who were bodily healthy enough participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11053,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions\/11053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}