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Tag Archives: Blue Ridge Parkway

Traveling Light through the Mountain Town of Weaverville

Vance was widely praised for being ahead of his time by making huge strides in infrastructure development and socio-political reforms, but he continuously used his political power to fight against civil rights and the abolition of slavery, and his family still owned slaves so I’m not buying it. 

October 4, 2020 in North Carolina.

The Scenic Route South to the Capital of the Eastern Band of Cherokee

Obviously we come here to take witchy photos and laugh like the big heathens we are before turning back around and going where we are meant to, but you could also continue along the BRP from this starting point until it ends in Waynesboro, Virginia. 

August 15, 2020 in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Ride the White Horse Through Dark City

As 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.

January 28, 2020 in North Carolina.

Newfound Gap Road through the #GSMNP

In 1940, when President Theodore Roosevelt spoke and dedicated the monument to the Rockefellers, that 5 million was the equivalent of over 90 million dollars today.

January 4, 2020 in North Carolina.

Deep Breaths at Lake Junaluska

Lake Junaluska is a census-designated territory, which occurs when a thriving community extends past the legal and/or geographical borders of an incorporated city.

September 9, 2019 in North Carolina.

Chimney Rock Village

I’ve heard stories about this place long before I visited. One friend described it as a rowdier Hooters with karaoke and camping

June 25, 2019 in North Carolina.

King of the Road; a Jaunt Along North Carolina’s Charlotte Highway

We knew, hoped even, that there had to be at least one weird thing in Bat Cave, but how were we supposed to explain THAT?

June 25, 2019 in North Carolina.

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