The Deep South

Asheville - Greenville - Atlanta


We met Mom & Grammy Barber in Asheville at the Grove Park Inn Resort.  We stayed at this amazing hotel for 2 nights with them and went to Courtney & Bobby's wedding in Greenville.  The wedding was beautiful and we had a fun night in Greenville with the family.  Sarah had her first shot of Jager...

We spent a couple nights in Asheville after Mom & Grammy went home.  We went hiking with Uncle Bob & Aunt Lois to some amazing waterfalls in Dupont State Park.  That night we did a pub crawl with them around the city of Asheville with a tour that taught us all kinds of interesting history of the city for example *Nascar evolved from guys with moonshine outdriving the cops during the prohibition.  Another really interesting fact was that Asheville only started to recover from the Great Depression in the late 70s.

We did some awesome mountain biking around the Biltmore property and got to see the largest home in American, and its amazing gardens.   We also biked  & hiked down in the Pisgah forest and drove around the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is such a beautiful part of the country!!  On the top of John's Rock hike overlooking an amazing view this group of elderly people came up with wine and musical instruments and we got a free show!

 Our first couch surfing experience was a success.  We stayed with a cool girl, Ryan, and went to the local minor league baseball game together.  Only downfall was that the first night her dog peed on my pants....

After Asheville we drove back through Greenville and stayed the night with the newly weds, Courtney & Bobby.  We had a nice dinner and evening with them before heading back to Atlanta for a few nights.

In ATL we relaxed some with Sarah, Nate & Jon.  Jen & Dagen were still down there after the wedding so it was fun to spend more time with them.  Cara came with us to a Braves game.  Annie's first time at Turner field.   We bought $1 tickets.  Watched the first 7 inning from the bar in the outfield, Annie caught a t-shirt!  Then we made our way to the lower level on the first base line, got on the jumbo screen singing during the 7th inning stretch, watched Prado hit a grand slam to tie the game, and the Braves won in extra innings.