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Continue reading →: BAD to the Bone: Dallas’ Bishop Arts Districtquite an adventure here in this land of bbq, brisket, boutiques, bars, bookshops, and surprise Balkan Brass…
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Continue reading →: East Tennessee’s Cove Lake State Park & Cumberland TrailCove Lake State Park is one of Tennessee’s 12 State Parks and it is located in Caryville, less than 30 miles north of Knoxville. The land may be ancient but the man-made Cove Lake is the result of the New Deal Caryville Dam Project that began back in the 1930s.…
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Continue reading →: Tybee Island: Salt, Sand Dollars, & Open SkyThe US Military accidentally dropped an atom bomb on Tybee in 1958. They never found it. It was never detonated.
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Continue reading →: Black Mountain, NC: Ride the White Horse Through Dark CityAs scandalous as the title of this blog might seem, it actually has nothing to do with cocaine or meth. Black Mountain, aka Dark City, took its name for its location in the Black Mountain range of the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Continue reading →: Cumberland Gap: America’s First Great Gateway to the WestCUMBERLAND GAP Cumberland Gap is known as “America’s first great gateway to the West” and is situated in the Cumberland Mountain ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. This region was inhabited by many Native American tribes long before Daniel Boone, Thomas Walker, and the like “discovered” it in the 1750s. Cumberland…
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Continue reading →: Devouring Savannah“Hand me my swish” is a real sentence that actually came out of my mouth the other night. I, just a little tipsy, was referring to the ever-evolving boozy concoction I had been sipping throughout the evening, enjoying that fleeting sense of rebellious freedom one finds in drinking alcohol in…
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Continue reading →: Waynesville, Frog Level, & Lake JunaluskaIt is said that the last shot of the Civil War east of the Mississippi River was fired in Waynesville, North Carolina in May of 1865. You can visit the memorial on Sulphur Springs Road.
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Continue reading →: Chimney Rock State Park & The Hickory Nut GorgeI’ve heard stories about this place long before I visited. One friend described it as a rowdier Hooters with karaoke and camping
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Continue reading →: A Jaunt Along North Carolina’s Charlotte HighwayWe knew, hoped even, that there had to be at least one weird thing in Bat Cave, but how were we supposed to explain THAT?
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Continue reading →: Red Right Hand: The Makings of Russian BorschEastern Europe, diverse as it is, has a hundred variations for every dish it offers. Borsch, for example. During my time in Russia, I did not find a single menu that failed to tempt me with my favourite stew Борщ, the notorious stew most non-Slavs do not quite understand. Борщ-…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Lake Lure’s Flowering BridgeIt took over two years from the birth of Miller’s idea to the start of its construction, but with a pooled $20,000 and seven months of hard voluntary labour the Friends finally had their garden.
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Continue reading →: Lake Lure (Come Here, Loverboy)We took a mini-vacation to Lake Lure, an enchanting small town about 40 minutes southeast of Asheville, North Carolina. You might say that I…had…the time of my life…
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