Monticello

We were trying to follow GPS over the mountain

We were on this gravel road, which turned into a dirt road

At this point GPS insisted we turn right

There was no road anyplace in sight

This is where we turned around and took another route

The better road was two-lane, no turnouts and we were behind this truck full

of wood chips  mile after mile.

Whee...we made it

Now on to Charlottesville, Virginia to Monticello

 Driving up another mountain to Monticello

The vegetables were humongous

I don't know if they were that large when Jefferson had his slaves

tending the garden

Jefferson's vision and follow through to turn the top of a mountain

into a home, vegetable and flower gardens...essentially Eden

probably could not have been accomplished without slave labor

So while I admire the outcome (love it, actually)

it does leave one with a heavy heart

http://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens

 under the house

are storage rooms

wine cellar

Thomas Jefferson 

and other members of the Jefferson family are buried here