total subsonic vacation

Hey! I'm still on vacation. (neener neener...) Drove up the Blue Ridge to Blowing Rock today (okay, now that you've finished mentally composing all the Beavis & Butthead jokes you can, let's move on). Nice drive along several NC state roads to get past parts of the BRP that were washed out in the hurricanes this summer. And along the Parkway. Then onto Blowing Rock which is just terminally quaint and folksy and overly subscribed with shoppes but was a nice place to stop and have lunch. The only downside of the day was that when we got back to 40 on our way back to Asheville, it was closed for some random reason and we had to wander around backcountry western NC for an extra 45 min. I dunno about you but I never want an extra 45 min tacked onto the end of a drive, esp. not when I'm ready for the drive to be over. But now we're back in Asheville. Back at the New French Bar. Life is pretty damn good right now.