Coffee:
-Drive-thru coffee from Sonic on our way out of Chattanooga. The "medium" was only 24 ounces or so.
-House blend at City Bakery Cafe in Asheville, North Carolina. Good coffee. Weird town.
From the journal:
Happy Birthday, Mom! I'm sorry to miss it yet again. Want to go to Hawaii with me ON your birthday next year?
Today we drove from Chattanooga (have I mentioned that I love that city yet?) into North Carolina. We stopped at a quirky little place called Fields of the Wood. It was created by the Church of God and features the Ten Commandments, Psalms of praise, a Prayer Mountain with tenants/disciplines of the Christian life, and more...all larger than life. The Ten Commandments are written with slabs of white concrete on the side of a mountain. There was a replica of Jesus' tomb, too. Definitely an oddity, but I have to admire the effort and the...largeness.
We then continued on to the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville, NC. Very windy and quite steep, it offers breathtaking views of rolling layer upon rolling layer of the misty, blue, Blue Ridge Mountains.
Once we made it to Asheville, we walked around town a bit in search of some coffee. We stopped at the Simma Down Caribbean Cafe, totally digging its groove, and were quite surprised to discover this cafe had no coffee. We ended up enjoying a fine cup of coffee and an extra-rich spiced chai at the City Bakery Cafe while deciding on a campground near Boone, NC.
But we never made it to Boone. Jeremy's poor van had been charging up and down twisty mountain roads all day long, and the transmission began complaining. So we turned around, fueled up in Asheville, and re-entered northeast Tennessee to camp at Riverview Campground near Johnson City. Our spot in the back corner behind all the RVs had river access and...a tether ball pole! I love tether ball!
Fields of the Wood Bible Park, Murphy, NC
We climbed all those steps to the very top of the book. It is odd and impressive all at the same time.
Walking up Prayer Mountain at Fields of the Wood in North Carolina.
Replica of the tomb Jesus was buried in for three days.
A little greenery to brighten the dash...
One of the more common sights as a passenger in Levity.
View from Lone Bald Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina.
Those mountains are so blue they're purple.
Asheville, NC
1 comment:
Hawaii, yes! but, for me, Alaska first then we will both race to plant our feet on the beaches of number 50!!!!
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