Mountain Air!

This morning we continued our journey in a North-Westerly direction, as we headed to Asheville, North Carolina. The drive was uneventful and along the way we stopped for coffee at The Last Coffee Pot (it wasn't actually!) where two coffees and a piece of pie cost $5!! The scenery was very green and soon the Blue Ridge Mountains could be seen in the distance. The closer we got to Asheville, the more the traffic resembled Wacky Races ..... fast and furious around an Expressway not dissimilar to the spiralling roads new Portland! But we arrived at the Holiday Inn Downtown safely just after noon. Discovering that our room was not ready, we decided to take a hike downtown.

Asheville is a very cool, arty, town which boasts lots of its original architecture, which has been adapted to a newer age, like the old Woolworth's store that is now a trendy arts & crafts market with a cool burger bar too.

Lots of restaurants, art and crafts galleries, and guitar and banjo players.

No surprise then that it pulls in tourists in their droves ..... ironically, it was droves of livestock which originally made this town famous. Along our walking tour we met a really friendly fire-crew and a local lady, Kate, who had once lived in Handforth, Cheshire!

Tonight we've chosen to eat in the Outback Steakhouse and to post Chubby Checker's 'The Hucklebuck' as our musical post-it note!