Durham, North Carolina & Beyond

Smoky Mountains on a weather moody Monday

 

Telephone Wires & Useless Desires in Durham

 

Kelly working the angle for a good shot
(sure to be linked here soon!)

 Sucker for signs, yellow scooters, and
turquoise bicycles in Chapel Hill

 

Apathetic puppy, Calvin, with Ben & Ashley

 

Watching people rock climb hurts my neck

 

 

 Catching the smoke in the Smokies

 

Ben and I packed up the little chartreuse Mini Cooper early October and joined some friends down south in Durham, North Carolina for a week of cruising around the mountains and southern cities. We thoroughly enjoyed

1. Fresh brew at Fullsteam Brewery with Ash, Ben, Kelly, & Pat

2. Hiking Pilot Mountain: sitting among the trees and rock faces for some rock climbing
3. Diving into deliciousness at Allen & Son BBQ Pit after a day of outdoors

4. Homemade empanadas, apple pie, & baked potato soup a la Yarnoff Haus

5. Moonrise hike & mountain top picnic in Kentucy's Pinnacles with Bethany

6. Running every morning. Not enjoyable but made us feel good.

7. Visiting Ash and Ben's new church & brunch at Elmo's Diner

8. A five mile hike above tree line in Red River Gorge in KY with Ben & Bethany

9. An excellent book-on-cd choice: Unbroken, a WWII POW Story

10. Photographing the fog in the Smoky Mountains (above)

11. Conversations re: apathetic puppies, Georgia pines, religion, & salvage

12. Most obviously: the lovelies we spent our time with over the course of that week