As residents of SC, I'm sure you have been to Table Rock SP
http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/pa...-park/350.aspx (we used to live in West Union/Seneca/Westminster, SC). I take it you have been to Helen GA
http://www.helenga.org/ and of course did the leaf peeping thing in Franklin/Cherokee NC. I'm told peeping by train is pretty cool
http://www.gsmr.com/ and if you are into trains and history/architecture.... Stop in at Cordele's Ga Vets State Park
http://www.gastateparks.org/GeorgiaVet (our fav in the GA SP system) and do the train tour to Plains GA (Jimmy Carter's home town and home farm... looked like my grandparents house)
http://samshortline.com/. As for PCB... we spent a few months there during the "off" season. As a seventh generation FL Native (born in Ft Pierce), it breaks my heart to see what FL is like now. I literally cried when we first drove down the beach road... all those condos/hotels built on the dunes and sea oats. when we left FL back in the early 1980's, they were trying to get the dunes and sea oats protected from development... guess the all mighty dollar won out with the greedy SOB politicians. the only way we go back is if I win the lottery, become a multi-millionaire and
IF that happens, I have promised my daughter a family trip to Dizzy World with a weeklong stay in the Victorian hotel... we would fly in... It's a long way from NM by bus (1600 miles from Franklin NC to Socorro, NM)