by eric | May 1, 2022 | Food & Drink, Travel, USA Travel
Nine days before we were set to leave for Spain, Leandra grabbed our passports out of the safe to book our train tickets from Madrid to Valencia, causing her to discover that my passport had expired in 2021! Hers had been renewed in 2019 and because we hadn’t...
by eric | Apr 28, 2022 | Food & Drink, Garden, Travel, USA Travel
On the way to Waynesville we stopped at the Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville. A fairly small garden, it is free to visit and has a nice selection of specimens, especially Japanese maples. They also featured several lovely beds of spring bulbs in April. Next, we...
by eric | Apr 26, 2022 | Food & Drink, Travel, USA Travel
Over the course of the week we tried a number of breweries and restaurants in the NC mountains. April 10 Oskar Blues, Brevard – we’d been here previously so we knew they had lots of parking and a food truck. I was quite happy with my margarita gose (a...
by eric | Apr 25, 2022 | Travel, USA Travel
With the weather forecast looking quite damp we decided to stay inside for the afternoon and checked out the Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum in Maggie Valley. The museum was great, with an extensive and overwhelming collection with lots of old and historic...
by eric | Apr 24, 2022 | Travel, USA Travel
We went to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park twice on our spring trip, once to the relatively close Cataloochee Valley in the early evening, and then an all day trip to the Tennessee side of the park around Gatlinburg. The Cataloochee Valley was about a 45 min...