Wednesday ...we decided to head back to TUMBLEWEED by taking that scenic route...Blue Ridge Parkway....speed tops at about 45...that morning we encountered very few cars, motorcycles...and NO semis (trucks are prohibited from traveling this road)...as noon time approached, we encountered those dreaded orange cones...road work ahead!!!! single lane....yikes, we waited briefly then drove right through...but then we saw ALL the cars waiting to come our direction...hundreds...backed up for miles! Suddenly it dawned on us that had we come this way as we had originally planned we'd have never made the Biltmore on Monday to tour the house before those private tours began on Tuesday. We thanked our lucky stars that we had done this the way we did!!!