Dancing to Dylan in Asheville

We headed out of Atlanta with every intention of camping near Charlotte and heading towards the Democratic National Convention the following day. As we drove through South Carolina the weather turned and we were suddenly in an intense heavy rain that didn't seem to let up. We stopped in Greenville, SC to eat Indian food and discuss our plans. We didn't want to camp in heavy rain and the weather report said that it would continue to rain for the rest of the week. Also the storm was much more intense in the south and east of North Carolina than it was in the western hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We decided to get a hotel in Asheville and check out the town which had been highly recommended to us by one of our favorite North Carolina natives.

One of the first things we did in the morning after waking up in Asheville was to go out to a coffee shop on the other side of town that had a reputation for being intense about their coffee. Our kind of people! The place is called Waking Life Espresso. It turned out to be a charming place in a converted house. The whole place smells wonderfully of coffee, and the guy making the fabulous concoctions was not only very nice, but very competent.

They were playing Bob Dylan and the Band's Basement Tapes. We have been playing Dylan the entire road trip so it was comforting and fun to hear something we hadn't been listening to from our current favorite. The kids were happy with it and danced around.

Then I gave the kids my phone to take pictures with.

If Asheville is anything like its coffee shops we are going to enjoy it very much!

Izzy's writing assignment for today: We went for a walk in Asheville in the rain.