NC Mountains 2014 - Days 5 & 6

Day 5 - Tuesday 8/12/14 We were able to do our morning walk today as the weather was clear for a change. After breakfast we decided to go to the Blue Ridge Parkway and “play tourist”. We visited the Folk Art Center just outside Asheville. If you have never visited the center you owe it to yourself to visit it. There is all kinds of hand made products from craft people in the Smokey Mountain area. As I walked in I saw a man that I was familiar with. He is a full time wood turner that has visited/demonstrated at the woodturning club that I am a member of. He was demonstrating at the center to the people visiting there. I talked to him a few minutes before he had to go to lunch. He had some beautiful woodturnings on display. We departed the center and slowly drove North on the parkway. After a few miles we departed the parkway and drove to Weaverville to find a wood supplier I had been told about. We spotted a café in town called Creperie and Café and decide to check it out. We ordered the Chocolate Tropics Crepe. It had whipped crème, strawberries and orange slices and of course chocolate. Yummy!! I told the waitress the story about a waiter in France criticizing me on how I pronounced the word Crepe. After leaving the café we found the wood supplier and I purchased a few pieces of wood. Then we returned to the parkway and continued on up to the milepost 340 area and checked out a couple of campgrounds near Burnsville before returning to the campground.

Chocolate Tropics Crepe

Day 6 - Wednesday 8/13/14 After our morning walk and breakfast we mostly relaxed and read the remainder of the day, except for checking our a couple of the stores nearby. Our area of the campground has 65 of the 66 sites occupied  and the area near the pavilion that has about 400 sites is almost full. After supper I rode my bicycle around the  campground and stopped at several of the campsites that were having jam sessions. Some of the amateur musicians were very good.