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A super original Asheville, NC travel blog. Consider yourselves motivated, inspired, and influenced.

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Winter Hiking in The Roan Highlands

This post is all about the photos of my winter hike from Carver’s Gap to Grassy Ridge Bald.

hike, hike hiking, Roan Highlands, The Only Ten I See, Winter

A Run-In With a Twin Leaf Monster on the Big Butt Trail

I refer to South Slope’s Twin Leaf Brewery as the forgotten brewery. That’s no real shade towards this establishment, which…

Big Butt Trail, Burial Beer, Catawba Brewing, Deli Llama, hiking, People Are Awful, Twin Leaf Brewery

Down Home in Johnson City, Tennessee

I wasn’t sure what to expect at The Downhome in Johnson City when I visited last weekend, but I certainly…

Johnson City, music, roadtrip, Southern Dispatches, The Only Ten I See

Cocaine Bear at The Grail Moviehouse

Most people came for the coked out bear…I came for The Americans reunion.

movies, River Arts District, The Americans, The Grail Moviehouse

Dispatches from the South: Savannah

Per one of my last postings, I finally made it to check out Savannah, Georgia, and it was a success.…

roadtrip, Savannah, Southern Dispatches, Southern Roadtrip, Weekend Trip

I Just Learned I Hate Dogs

I’ve always considered myself a dog person, until a very needy dog owner let me know otherwise.

Animals, Day Moon Coffee Bar, Daymoon Coffee Bar, People Are Awful, People are the Worst, rants

Can You Manufacture a Dive Bar?

A Citizen-Times headline back in December stuck with me: Shiloh & Gaines, elevated dive bar, coffee shop, opens in Ashville.…

Deep Thoughts, dive bar

Deep Reflections While Cruising the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Middle of the Night, on a Weekday 

Three years ago, during the height of Covid, I spent my New Year’s Eve sitting at home and going to…

Blue Ridge Parkway, Deep Thoughts, Influencer Things

Southern Book Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I bet you were dying to hear my new take on a book published in 1994.

books, Savannah, Southern Book Review

Overheard on Haywood Road: Part 1

One of the first places I visited the first time I visited Asheville was Battlecat Coffee on Haywood Road in…

Archetype Brewing, Haywood Road, hipster nonsense, Overheard on Haywood Road, Pizza Mind, West Asheville

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