One of the interesting and fun aspects of this lifestyle is that you often get to see people you might otherwise never get a chance to meet. In this case, it was Penny's third cousin, Dean, and his wife Lynne. Dean and Penny's great-grandmothers were sisters. We had a great time with them.
One evening we went to downtown Asheville. It is really a neat town. Just outside the parking garage was this climbing wall. This was our first indication that Asheville did not fit our image of a typical southern town.
These gingko trees, planted between cobblestones, set a very pleasant tone.
We loved the whimsy of this gigantic flat iron sculpture.
This triangle in downtown Asheville becomes a party place every Friday evening. People gather there in a circle and play their drums until late in the evening.
This wig shop sported a few wigs of standard colored hair, but we loved this display with everything from hair treatments that looked like they should belong to Cleopatra to all of these wild colors.
We saw dreadlocked street entertainers on this corner all three times we were downtown. A few days after we took this photograph, we saw a bumper sticker that said "Keep Asheville Weird". Very Portlandian.
There are several high profile eating places in downtown Asheville. We chose the Tupelo Honey Café.
Their reputation was well deserved. Penny had a delicious open-faced vegetable sandwich and Ted had a wonderful Panko crusted cutlet with Havarti and cheddar cheese, green apples and caramelized onions with a sriracha aioli sauce. Delicious!! The grilled asparagus was the best either of us had ever tasted.
Not far off the downtown square was Thomas Wolfe's house. Despite the famous author's exhortation, we did go home again afterward, to our magic carpet house on wheels.
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