Ok, a quick blast of a few days...
We stayed at a fine Air B&B in Ashville...run by a couple who were social service professionals for years. Very generous and fun folks... Ashville is a very eclectic community. Anarchist cafe, many excellent bookstores, fine native plant garden, more veggie restaurants than you can imagine...
It is a sister city with Vallodolid, Mexico, a town that we visited in the Yucatan last year. Everytime you turn around, there is another poster for another peace, ecology, social justice event. It's the kind of town where you'll see a man wearing makeup and nailpolish walking past a group of James Dickey tyoe characters with stringy hair and t-shirts that say "Freedom is not free."
We went to a community drum circle Friday night where someone lent us drums so we could participate... a fine town, needs another look.
We are now staying with friends Tim and Melinda in Boone, a college town in the Appalacinans. We spent last evening with vegan burritos, guacamole, fine white wine and Jerry Garcia while we tried to solve the world's problems. Probably requires a few more sessions. Yesterday we hiked on an excellent trail near here... they wanted me to i.d. wild fungi, and I was able to come fairly close with more than I would have thought (there are many species that I don't know, of course.)
I got up and took a hot tub on the deck, watching storm clouds blow in over the Blue Ridge Mts. The storm is about to hit, gotta get off the computer.We are drinking Japanese tea and watchingthe storm. Kate and I leave tomorrow morning to drive north through W. Virginia for a few days... we'll visit friends Don and Ellen for a day in Butler, Pa., then wind up with my family in Pittsburgh and the odessey's final stages... can I write a book now???
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