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Continue reading →: Grandfather Mountain Highland GamesPerhaps the most amusing musical performances are when bagpipers position themselves outside of porta-potties and play a funny tune as unsuspecting, red-faced toilet patrons make their exits.
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Continue reading →: Rabun County: Home to The Foxfire Village Museum, Black Rock State Park, & ClaytonRABUN COUNTYRabun County, Georgia is located in the smallest northeastern corner of North Georgia, wedged into where the North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina state borders meet. You can find it about halfway between Blue Ridge, GA and Greenville, SC, and an hour or so from Helen, GA. A collection…
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Continue reading →: Bernheim Forest: A Magickal Picnic with GiantsIn 1928, a German Jewish immigrant named Isaac W. Bernheim purchased 12,000 acres of worn out, overly mined land that had been stripped of its trees.
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Continue reading →: Bones, Stones, & Mineral Springs: A Short Stop in Hot SpringsHOT SPRINGSHot Springs is in the southernmost region of the South Dakota Black Hills. It sits about halfway between Custer State Park and the South Dakota-Nebraska state line, and slightly east of the Wyoming-South Dakota state line. Hot Springs is also in Fall River County, the neighbouring county to Oglala…
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Continue reading →: South Dakota’s Custer State Park & the Crown Jewel of the Black HillsEach curve of the scenic byway felt like were we leaving a forest for a stunning landscape of granite castles; from a serene lake to a mysterious cave; from a bright and sunny greenspace to a roller coaster of a mountain road. It just kept changing.
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Continue reading →: Wall Drug: The Quirky, Wild Western “Rock City” of South DakotaYou all know I hate shopping, and I would never have thought I would be writing an entire blog about a store, but Wall Drug is so much more than that. It is a lighthouse in its own ocean, just out in the Midwestern plains. WALL, SOUTH DAKOTAThe small town…
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Continue reading →: Slow Drive Through South Dakota’s Spearfish Canyon & Scenic BywayFrank Lloyd Wright visited Spearfish Canyon in 1935 and wrote “How is it that I’ve heard so little of this miracle and we, toward the Atlantic, have heard so much of the Grand Canyon when this is even more miraculous. All the better eventually… my hat is off to South…
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Continue reading →: Badlands National Park, Prairie Dogs, & The Pine Ridge Reservation“No words of mine can describe these Bad Lands. One set of buttes, with cones and minarets, gives place in the next mile to natural freaks of different variety never dreamed of by mortal man. The painter’s whole palette is in one bluff.” -Frederick Remington
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Continue reading →: Wind Cave National Park, Battle for the Black Hills, & The Lakota Emergence Story“The wind coming out of Wind Cave is pure spirit…sacred vibration, life is a sacred vibration, the world vibrates with breath.” – Basil Brave Heart, Oglala Lakota
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Continue reading →: Black Hills National Forest Spotlights: Mount Rushmore, 1880 Train, & Crazy Horse MemorialBLACK HILLS NATIONAL FORESTThe Black Hills National Forest is located in southwestern South Dakota. It spans from Spearfish, Deadwood, Lead, and Sturgis at its northern border down to Rapid City, Hill City, Keystone, Custer, and eventually Hot Springs at its southern border. You can read my separate blogs about those…
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Continue reading →: Franklin, TN’s Great American Main StreetFranklin is definitely no East Nashville with its Y’allternative punk, metalgrass, and rockabilly bands playing in bowling alleys, vegan cafes, oddity boutiques, and pop-up vintage shops, but it grew on me.
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Continue reading →: Cherokee, NC: The Capital of the Eastern Band of CherokeeCherokee is the historical and traditional homeland of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, one of only three officially recognized Cherokee tribes. EBCI is the only one in North Carolina, whereas the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah are both in Oklahoma. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are descendants…
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