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Asheville Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Asheville, United States
Reminded of Beginnings
This is a top pick! The flight was long, but fine. In Atlanta, I got on a Greyhound to Greenville where Annie picked me up. We went straight to eat some sushi. Americans and their highways are shocking, even after South Africa. Shedrock was so happy to see me. I brushed ...
Before leaving
This is a top pick! ... , I'm writing this from the west coast of Namibia. Forget about that for a moment and get into the trip: My stay in Asheville was excellent... just what i needed. Annie didn't give me too much trouble for being on the computer most of the time getting ...
Reflections and Returns
This is a top pick! Well, all missions accomplished. I found what I was looking for and much more. Ask and you will be granted. Everything is nice in western NC. These mountains seem like Eden until you compare them to what they were in 1800, or until you drive by the ...
The End
This is a top pick! The end has come..the last 13 months have been awesome. The words that come to mind are freedom, adventure, peace, fun... It was a journey to far away places, new ones and known ones but mostly into ourselves. It sounds esoteric, but it's true. Being ...
Day 37 & 38: Temperatures hit record low, sub 90
Leaving South Carolina and the Lowcountry marked the end of a long flat journey through the southern states. Coming into Asheville, NC, we viewed our first hills since descending out of Taos (32 days ago) and the sight of something high and green brought ...
Wedding Day/Going Away Party
... ; WOW was that tricky or what. All in all it was a very good time. We are getting ready to head back into Asheville and hook up with Janna and Steve for a bicycle ride along the river. Of course there will be more pictures to add to the ...
Day 1 – Friday, March 29
... of the trip was easier. We checked into the Bear Creek Campground w hich is off I-40 south and west of downtown Asheville. Interestingly, it is about 3 miles from the neighborhood I grew up in. We lived in Malvern Hills in ...
The Beautiful Biltmore Estate/alight for Christmas
What can you say about a home of such grandeur? A home with 4 acres of floor space, 250 rooms, 34 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces (all of which were lit for this Christmas candlelight tour), and 67 beautifully decorated Christmas trees of ...
Getting ready for San Ramon
Why do it? Why sell your car and many of your posessions, say goodbye to your friends, quit your job, grab your suitcases and guitar and hit the open road to follow a lady from India who goes around the world hugging people? For me there are ...
Hitchhiking North Carolina
... . Woke up and started asking for rides. It took about an hour, and i was about to finally give up, when i got my ride to Asheville. The driver was a nice guy in his 50s who was driving home from a vacation to see the family by the beach. He talked alot, ...
Update and Tidbits
... to Asheville to stay with our favortie cousin and cousin-in-law. It rained on us almost all the way from Savannah to Asheville.. What a mess !!!! We have tidbits of the trip- Do you know who makes the BEST pizza in Asheville and probably in ...
Hardtimes in the Appalachian Mtns.
... Hardtimes loop at Lake Powhatan Campground in the Pisgah Nat. Forest, just a mile off the Blue Ridge Parkway and close to Asheville, North Carolina. Apart from cleaning the park’s six bathrooms twice a week, hard times these are ...
Mountain Folk
... mirror. Rest of the drive was really nice. The air was a lot cooler even with the sun out. Arrived in the mountain town of Asheville safe and sound, but was in DESPERATE need of booze...and lot's of it. Unfortunately, my room wasn't ready at the hotel, ...
Beer City
We rode into Asheville in the afternoon after an easy 25 mile ride. There we were greeted by our couch surfing host, Mike. He was a very friendly guy who quickly made us feel comfortable and told us to make ourselves at home. It ...
Asheville experience
Today was a great day. I now know what a hostel is all about. This one is a big Victorian style house with dorm rooms, single rooms, kitchen, etc. But we are camping out back :) Bryce insisted on putting up the circus tent.. but it turned out ...
Stanger with a door key
May 2006 Home Again- Stranger with a door key Culture shock. They tell you about it but its not until you experience it for yourself that you really can understand it. I traveled the world over and didn't really experience culture shock, but when I ...
Mountains are great!
Wow! The sweetest view coming up to Asheville. Got in yesterday, and just so happen to bump into a couch surfer's meeting at the brew pub here! What a neat group of people. I am staying at a home where my friends Deanne and David often take in travelers, ...
Day 1
2010 U.S. Road Trip – Day 1 - 6/19/2010 – Destination Asheville, NC It was 2003 when we decided that we would take a 6 week vacation to tour the U.S. by car during the summer of 2010. After planning for 7 years we are finally on the ...
N. Carolina is a long state and so is this entry
... getting late, we knew we better start looking for a place to camp. We realized that finding a place to sleep outdoors in downtown Asheville would be difficult so we went online to find some parks on the outskirts. We found a nice one with a pool, ...
The Innocents Abroad
I leave for my trip in 10 days! I can't believe it really, I mean I have always known that is was approaching but now its real its here in 10 short days. I still have a lot of things I need to get together before I leave. Packing is a big one, I know I ...
Keeping Up With The Jones's
It has been a contest since the cave man days. You dig a cave and I'll quickly make one bigger. I suppose the first two families were the Smith's and Jones's doing their thing somewhere underneath a tree and rock. The contest has ...
English lady in a French dress
... come across it at all, however it did feature in all the reams of literature and web sites we have used. Biltmore House in Asheville is as they say 'awesome'. Nancy in the visitors centre in Asheville, (who by the way has somewhat restored our faith in ...
What is this foreign land called home?
"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, LET IT. Nobody ...
Headed for the TAT
I left VA and headed to the TAT on a bald tire. I ended up stopping to camp for the night to save some money. It reminded me of being on the PCT. I will be changing the tire and oil tomorrow in ...
Day 28 from Palmetto Prideway to Billy Graham Fwy
... still a beautiful place to visit. Even if the only place we could buy bread was at the local Piggly Wiggly supermarket. Asheville is a major contrast. After getting major wraps from Stephen Fry and Stefan Linquist, and with monikers such as Paris of ...
make love & art not war
... Tief durchatmen, entspannen und mir vorstellen, ich sei wieder da, wo alle an den Weltfrieden und composting toilets glauben. Asheville ist den meisten Auslaendern wohl eher nicht bekannt, doch die Kleinstadt am Fusse der Blue Ridge Mountains scheint ein ...
A Day At The NC Arboretum
Dear Vernae, I was thinking this morning that I needed a good run. I've been wanting a day outside, so, I opened the window, threw back the sash, and off to Grandmothers house I went! The N.C. Arboretum is just down the road ...
All a board!
... the fear he may have come to meet my bus. Then through to Hickory, Morganton, bumfucknowhere, hickscounty, rapetown then to Ashville. Asheville however is worth all the horror and sleep deprivation of the ride. I didn’t think that when I was ...
Biltmore Bound!
The last weekend in April we traveled to the Biltmore Village in Asheville, North Carolina. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed our trip. Megan had never been to the Biltmore and we enjoyed touring the gardens and the estate. ...
The Small World of Asheville
... girl named Abby. This gal was a baker by trade, lived in a beautiful house right near the French Broad river in West Asheville, had a huge backyard with a vegetable garden and an area for chickens (the chickens were still growing up in a kiddie pool in ...