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

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Sometimes Nature Isn’t Great, aka My Thoughts on Why Bugs Suck, Featuring a Hike to Pisgah Forest’s Twin Falls and Whaleback Swimming Hole (Both of Which are Great)

On a hike to Pisgah Forest’s Twin Falls, I bitch about how nature isn’t always relaxing.

Brevard, Davidson River, hike, hikes, hiking, Joan Didion, nature, Thoreau, transcendentalism, Twin Falls, Twin Falls Hike

Where to Find the Best Sunsets in Asheville, Even Though No One Cares Anymore

This is a post detailing what I believe to be the best places to watch a sunset in Asheville and Western North Carolina.

Asheville, Bearwallow Mountain, Berrington Village, Black Balsam Knob, Craggy Pinnacle, Grove Park Inn, hike, People Are Awful, People are the Worst, River Arts District, Roan Mountain, sunset

Is Hot Springs the Coolest Small Town on the East Coast? A Short Investigation

On June 20th of this year, Travel and Leisure named Hot Springs, NC, one of the “10 best small towns…

Big Pillow Brewing, Cool Small Towns, daytrip, Hot Springs NC, Madison County, Mountain Towns

The Most Infuriating Thing I’ve Seen in Some Time aka The Time I Was Triggered By Hipster Bullshit, and You Readers Get to Work Through Some Insecurities With Me (if you choose to read, obviously)

A couple of weeks back, my cousin Casey was visiting, and we decided to do a late Friday brunch at…

Asheville, Deep Thoughts, Influencer Things, Liberty House Cafe, People Are Awful, rants

Do Women Work in the Afternoon in Madison County, a Short Investigation

A couple of weeks ago, “a crowd of more than 100 people gathered on the Madison County courthouse lawn in…

Big Pillow Brewing, Christian nonsense, investigations, Madison County, Marshall

Private Conversations

I find it rude when people have speakerphone conversations in public places. I realize there’s technically no difference between someone…

Asheville, Deep Thoughts, wokeness

Upstate of Mind

I had a great time exploring upstate South Carolina’s Lake Jocassee.

Lake Jocassee, Lake life, South Carolina, SUP, Upcountry, Upstate, Water sports

A Short Guide on How to Make Montana’s Unprecedented Flooding About My Asheville Exploring

On May 30, I wrote a piece for the Asheville Citizen Times about the role homophobia played in Madison Cawthorn’s…

Deep Thoughts, Gorges State Park, High Falls, me me me, Narcissism, Rainbow Falls, Sapphire NC, triple falls, Turtleback Falls, waterfall, waterfalls

Time Moves Slower Down Here

Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway will inevitably cause me to have a full-fledged, road-rage-induced meltdown. Not if, when.  I told…

Blue Ridge Parkway, Deep Thoughts, Grandfather Mountain State Park, Linville, Pisgah Inn, Sam's Knob

Quitting is Good, Featuring Grandfather Mountain State Park

I was an avid Modern Family watcher when it first premiered. Like many people (at least according to the numbers),…

Deep Thoughts, Grandfather Mountain State Park, hike, hike hiking, hikes, Quitters

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