Headed out of Ashville and picked up the Blue Ridge Parkway for the final section. We gradually descended. The scenery gently changing from high country to leafy glades. Quite punishing for the car brakes! As soon as you leave the parkway, you enter the Great Smokey Mountains NP. We stopped off at a very busy Visitor Center. I think we […]
20m from the hotel lobby… chain food, but not bad. Calorific comfort food.. So, I set the aircon to max and we went out. Figured we’d chill the room down so we wouldn’t need to run the aircon and suffer the noise later. We shared a molten cheese, meat, onion thing with tortilla chips. Moorish and salty – so large […]
Just a stop over so I booked a chain hotel with restaurant options nearby and close to the parkway. It’s an IHG Holiday Inn Express Suites. Room is nice, spacious , inexpensive and turns out to have VERY noisy air con. Have already complained but hotel is full so cannot move room. At least I can console myself with the […]
The parkway is a scenic drive from Virginia to Tennessee – we picked it up around the half way point. Every few miles there is an overlook (large lay-by) with varied, but amazing views. The road winds through the mountains, hundreds of miles. Some sections tunnel through the rock, others are concrete bridges tethered to the side of the mountains. […]
Morning coffee from local independent coffee shop “Bald Guy Coffee” – they were neither bald nor a guy. Coffee was decent Loaded up car and headed to The Blowing Rock. It’s amazing the sort of advice you have provide the general public with nowadays Like all good tourist attractions this one forced you to leave via a shop and we […]
Coffee, but no bagels. Pack luggage. Check out. Try and look casual and calm when signing off the bill! Uber’d to the airport. Uber works so well in the USA and our driver was great. Dropped us by the elevator to the rental car desks and we headed straight to the garage… I’m not sure when, but the car categories […]
Weather delayed, but it did go ahead. We caught the tail end of Josh Turner – one of those people whose voice doesn’t match them… Then a surprise act – Alabama. A country supergroup whose careers span seven decades! I’m not that familiar with them, but you could sense the love, awe and appreciation these 70+ year old guys received […]
Is the weather targeting me personally? As a precaution, Jus has moved to the far end of the sofa…
All outdoor stages shut and now being partially disassembled. People instructed to leave area and seek cover. The several hundred bars seem to be popular refuges! We ambled back to the hotel and put the weather channel on. Severe thunderstorm warning… 1.5 inch hail stones? That ****ing hurt. Especially when they are propelled by a 60mph wind. Just had a […]