Ashboro, North Carolina: Good morning from the Piedmont. Welcome to the second day of our fall foliage road trip to the Piedmont region of North Carolina. After grabbing a quick grab and go breakfast from Chick-fil-a, we hit the road for our day of exploration. Today we are visiting the North Carolina Zoo as well as the Richard Petty Museum. Our day kicked off with a short drive south to Ashboro and a visit to the North Carolina Zoo. For those of you who follow the site, you know our family's love of the zoo and our mission to visit as many as we can. We learned about the North Carolina Zoo thanks to the Nat Geo show Secrets of the Zoo. From watching that show we instantly knew we had to visit the zoo and today was the day. The zoo was absolutely huge! The drive into the zoo showed just how much land the zoo owned, it was pretty much a city all to itself with a great network of roads in and out of the zoo. We got to the zoo sh...
