North Carolina

I must confess that North Carolina is quickly becoming a favorite for me. Part of it is all the wonderful sites to visit, but mostly it's the great people  that I know who live there...people I get to visit the wonderful places with. Fun Facts: The Wright brothers completed the first successful flight of a mechanically propelled airplane over the sands of Kitty Hawk,  North Carolina on December 17, 1903.

The University of North Carolina was the first public university  in the United States to open its doors.

Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on  March 7, 1914.

The first English child born in America, Virginia Dare, was born  in Roanoke, North Carolina, in 1587.

Mount Mitchell is the tallest mountain in the eastern United States.

Jockey's Ridge is the tallest natural sand dune system in the Eastern  United States. Depending on the weather, its height can range  from 80 to 100 feet!

Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County, one of over 200 waterfalls  in North Carolina, is the highest waterfall on the East Coast.

The Biltmore Estate in Asheville is the largest private house in the  world, with 250 rooms.