Asheville and Little Switzerland

Jake and I packed up and headed to Asheville, NC on Saturday morning. Asheville is about 2 hours north of Greenwood and a completely different world for sure! It is kind of like Lawrence, only with real hippies instead of Johnson County based college kids who are just posing as hippies to allow them to smoke pot and rebel against "the man" while still wearing Hollister and A&F. There were a whole bunch of unwashed people with rank dreadlocks walking around with their belongings on their back and Teva sandals. Along with a lot of loitering, and not a single minority....very strange place. Actually it was really cool. Lots of nifty shopping, neat restaurants, live music, museums and really friendly people...probably due to all of the pot. Definitely a place that would be fun to go back to overnight or bring some friends along and do some going out. We could be totally off of the handle and go completely unnoticed in that crazy place.

We then drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Little Switzerland. Someday you all need to see the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is like driving down Highway 1 on the west coast, that scenic and way more windy. The only problem was that we did not find a gas station on the way out of Asheville and there was not a town/gas station/hole in the wall anything for the first 50 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway...I am going to write Dodge a letter and thank them for allowing for stupidity and having the gas light go off with 51 miles worth of gas left in the tank! We were sweating it for sure as there are no shoulders on this dangerously narrow/windy road. The scenery would have been way more enjoyable with a full tank unfortunately. Once we got gas we went to Little Switzerland. Picture Lindsborg with no people, no culture, and 3 building...all connected. Yeah, a little disappointing for sure. Luckily the joint had beer and was able to redeem itself with a nice deck with a decent view of the post office...