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.
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.
The first item I checked off my 2026 Western North Carolina (WNC) Bucket List was visiting Asheville’s Shoji Spa, a Japanese soaking spa.
More nonsense from the saunas of Asheville.
Part two of the ridiculous things you hear Ashevillians say in the various saunas of Asheville.
A very specific (very meta) type of performative masculinity was overheard at Asheville’s Sauna House recently.
You hear some wild conversations in the saunas of Asheville.
For some reason, being in a sauna really makes the men of Asheville inadvertently showcase how worried they are about their own masculinity.
Asheville has always been more than a bit of a parody of itself, but part of the reason it doesn’t … More
My least favorite type of person is the type who loves—nee, needs—to teach something during every interaction, and I, unfortunately, … More
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