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Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 14:25
My wife, Gerri, and I got away for a while to celebrate our 25th anniversary.
Saturday was spent driving around Blowing Rock and Boone in the pouring rain. We couldn't get out of the car without getting soaked and the traffic in Boone was bumper to bumper. It wasn't dreary. The whole day as we wandered about, the Brothers were playing on the stereo. Every album, one by one, then again. The rain was beautiful, the traffic a diversion.
Sunday we ate breakfast and headed for Grandfather Mountain. The sky was a beautiful deep, Carolina blue. A light wind swept falling leaves across the Blue Ridge Parkway. "Swept Away" was playing as we floated along the Parkway. I played it again and again.
Perfect.
Thank you Scott. Thank you Seth. Thank you Bob. Thank you Joe.
It was perfect.
Sean
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they do know how to make lemonade out of lemons
+25
eta: bummer, only 5 pts for being first
edited again due to no spell check
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Please talk slowly I don't hear good any more.
perfectly stolen 25 points.
nice story, too. sorry for the hijack!
damn! so close!
hey, don't feel bad katie, I got robbed
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Please talk slowly I don't hear good any more.
Sounds nice...I can't wait to get to the mountains with the family.
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I saw the moon in the sky,over the city....Oh What A Nightmare.
Just thinking about driving along the Parkway while listening the 'Swept Away' brings tears to my eyes.
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Carolina one day I'll, someday I'll come home.
I thought about taking a solo drive through the hills to listen to my album for the first time, but couldn't wait that long. Still planning on doing it, and soon
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frightened by those who don't see it
This just in:
Indiana needs more mountains.
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Sounds lovely. I took the parkway this time last year coming home from the Athens shows. Deffinitely adds to the music.
"This just in:
Indiana needs more mountains."
LOL!
Well, you've got the Knobs just over the river from Louisville if that counts for anything.
Things learned from the new Ken Burns series on PBS. The Blue Ridge Parkway is the MOST visited National Park in the US. I had no idea, but can certainly understand why. More than once I've taken minor detours down the parkway for no other reason than it was close by and I had the time. A favorite CD always enhances the experience.
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That sounds absolutely beautiful. Glad to hear the weather didn't get you down on such a momentous occasion! 25 years, congrats!
Man I wish southern CA had pretty mountains. I guess I'll have to settle for a drive along the coast. It's as close as I'm going to get to any soothing nature experience out here ha
Grandfather Mountain is that kind of place. Congratulations on 25 years of life spent together with the one you love.
@TAFKAM -- I've been watching the PBS series too.. so far, it has really impressed me. I used to live practically ON the parkway when I was a freshman-sophomore in college. So many tourists, but I loved taking the backroads when I had the time, too.
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Sean - i can't tell you how bad I miss living in the high country ( boone) and just being able to the parkway or trail whenever i felt like it....
where did you eat in Blowing rock / boone? Just wondering
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Well Locust, Mount Pleasant, Concord.... LETS GOOO!
"where did you eat in Blowing rock / boone? Just wondering"
Friday night we ate at Nick's between Linville and Banner Elk. Very good and nice atmosphere. Saturday night we ate at The Bayou in Banner Elk. It was excellent. Real Cajun cooking. I had Louisiana beer made from pecans. We stayed at a B&B, so we had breakfast and didn't do lunch.
Sean
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When my husband and I first heard the Avetts, we thought they had written a soundtrack for our courtship/marriage with the Emotionalism album. We were in Asheville (sans kids) for the weekend. We played that over and over and over again. We have since celebrated our 12th New Year together in Charlotte with the Avetts, and our 7th wedding anniversary with them at Bojangles. Can't wait to keep it up--on all regards!
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And she has got a baby with brand new eyes
And her daddy is an engineer..
I live in Asheville and grew up in Brevard. Sometimes when I was a kid my parents would take the parkway to get from Brevard to Asheville. Adds a good half hour to the trip, but the scenery is too beautiful to pass up. The Pisgah National Forest ain't half bad, either!
that is really really nice.
Taryn,
You will have to be more specific. I believe every story told in this thread has been really really nice.
I meant the initial post. I'm too lazy to read the rest of the nice stories. Please tell me who is the nicest and I will focus on them.
The Avett Brothers. They're the nicest.
But the initial post was indeed extremely nice and the other stories that followed were as well. I haven't made it up to Blowing Rock/Boone (yet) this year. Went last year around this time and it was as lovely as it ever was. We're truly blessed 'round here... God's most beautiful country *and* the Avett Brothers. Could it get any better?
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Well it kind of meandered in to a story about the Blue Ridge Mountains, which hold a special place in my heart forever, so I think they're all equally nice!
This post has made me listen to the Townes Van Zandt song Blue Ridge Mountains on repeat for about an hour now.
"Well my home is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and I ain't comin' back here anymore"