As a teen, Sandburg rode the rails in boxcars, like a hobo, to see the country, from Illinois to Colorado. ”I’m an Idealist.” He once wrote. ”I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” Carl was fascinated by Abe Lincoln and won a Pulitzer for one of his Lincoln biographies.

The prize winning poet & author enjoyed solitude in nature, and he bragged that his home up in the foothills here included “millions of acres of sky”. It’s a beautiful and peaceful spot with a fish pond and goats.

It is necessary now and again
for a man to go away and experience loneliness;
to sit on a rock in the forest and as himself,
”Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”

— Carl Sandburg

Here’s the link to my visits to all parks in North Carolina.