A super original Asheville, NC travel blog. Consider yourselves motivated, inspired, and influenced.
Why don’t people wear deodorant? After one particularly heinous sauna session, I went looking for answers—and found myself thinking about body odor, wellness culture, MAHA, and the increasingly self-involved idea that everyone else should have to live with your choices.
Handcut Asheville fries, disrespected tarot, Nicaragua coffee expertise, and AI’s greatest adversary: ten more things I overheard on Haywood Road without nearly enough context.
Few things earn my disdain faster than someone who courts attention but won’t fully lean in and just ask for … More
A simple question—“Should I visit the Asheville Art Museum?”—sent me down a rabbit hole of workplace drama, toxic leadership allegations, and a story that feels surprisingly emblematic of Asheville itself.
The last time I took a little breather from posting on here regularly was because I got laid off for … More
Observing some bargain hunters at a downtown Asheville coffee shop. The kind that definitely hashtag “shop local” all the time.
A unplugged sunset hike at Sam’s Knob in the Blue Ridge Mountains hits an unexpected twist.
A sauna conversation at the gym reminds me that the people we’re quickest to judge often surprise us—and sometimes the real asshole in the room is us.
At the end of last year, I published a blog announcing that I was going to take part in the … More
Nothing went right for me on my recent hike to Rich Mountain Fire Tower outside Hot Springs, NC.
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