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We wanted to drive a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway while visiting Asheville. The scenic Parkway runs along the mountain ridges from Virginia, where it connects with Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park, through North Carolina to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We started at the Folk Art Center near the Asheville entrance. The Craft House contains an exhibition of folk art and a craft store. From the Folk Art Center, we continued north along the scenic mountain road. It was very...

Rain or no rain?  Do I go or do I stay?  I will wait another hour to see if it clears , screw it “On the Road Again”.   Ten minutes later I am under the overhang of a Lowes home improvement center buying another TARP.  15 minutes 10 bungees later , rain suit on & here we go.  I just remembered why I don’t like riding in the rain.  I don’t mind getting wet , I don’t mind the bike getting dirty.  I really don’t like riding when you can’t...

Asheville is about an hour and a half drive from Murphy (depedning on traffic) through some more of beautiful North Carolina. Asheville is in my opinion a city but most would still call it a town. It has close to 70,000 people which makes it a city in my opinion.  Asheville is rather a strange place if you ask me but I still enjoy it...after all, I have friends there so I have to pay it a visit every once in a while. You still get the peace of the country and the beauty of the mountains ...

We toured the largest house in the US. Impressive and very nice weather too 70F. This place is in Asheville NC and is a quick stop off the Blue Ridge Parkway or is easily access by way of I-40. Parking is a big problem and the cost of the entrance is expensive. Since the Christmas rush was over, we got our tickets for a very steep discount. Lucky for us!!! The house was built by George Vanderbilt and is incredibly huge. Construction was started in 1889 and completed in 1895. The st...

More than 365,000 people will descend on the streets of Downtown Asheville on July 25-27 for Bele Chere, a three-day street party that has become one of the largest outdoor street festivals in the Southeast. www.belecherefestival.com

I don't know what is wrong with this computer, but it just ate my posting!  I have to do this one all over again.  Grrr! We decided to make this a day to do chores rather than go sightseeing.  As I have said, cities are not my thing.  I did laundry and Jag went in search for a car wash and, most important, gasoline.  He was unsuccessful with both.  Since Hurricane Ike hit Texas, stations have been not only running out of fuel to sell, those that have it have rai...

This is a spectacular drive trough North Carolina and the Shenandoah National Park. The views really are stunning and make you want to actually obey the speedlimits... part of the time. There are good curves too for when you decide that the 45 mph and less limits are really just suggestions. A perfect drive for a sports car and especially an motorcycle.

Heading over to Asheville, NC. to see the Biltmore Estate. It's an hour and half drive from Gatlinburg. We will drive Hwy 321 to Interstate 40 south to Asheville.  It's 30 degrees in Gatlinburg this morning. According to the Weather Channel we will be under a wind advisory again this morning, from 7:00 am until 4:00 am Wednesday morning.....with gust between 30 and 40 mph. The wind woke me up making a wild sound as it blew thru the trees outside. There is a chanc...

Moving from the East Coast to California can be a bitch. But if you go with your best friend and take a few detours, it can be THE road trip of a lifetime.

I hope to complete a Travel Blog showing all the pictures of the places my wife Jenny and I have lived and visited since we bought our first computer when we lived in Hawaii in 1998. We've spent most of that time travelling around the globe and I've spent many hours organizing all the digital pictures. Hopefully, TravBuddy will be a way to show off all the places we've expereinced in the world. The picture of us is taken from our balcony on the East China Sea in Nakadomari, Okinawa.

My cousins live in North Carolina, they moved there from where I live now, a small town in Southeast Texas.  It is absolutely one of the most geourgeous place I have seen!  The mountains are so beautiful, the rivers and streams are all breathtaking.  It truely is a place that is rural and touched by God.  The town of Ashville is a small town settled in the mountains in North Carolina.  It is so busy all the time!  There are all kinds of quaint little mom a...

At the Biltmore House

this is a collection of funny signs/adverts/posters/etc i come across on my journeys

We had to leave on New Year's Day, but we did stay and explore downtown Asheville before leaving NC. We ate a a restaurant together and spent a bit letting evyone walk around!  

Our destination...Western North Carolina.  You are all probably wonder why we headed back into North Carolina...right?  Well my cousin and I wanted some outdoor adventure...to see and experience nature at its finest.  So Western North Carolina was the obvious choice.  But the outdoor activities would have to wait until tomorrow.  Our accommodations for the next 2 nights was the Days Inn Biltmore East.