We’re traveling a familiar route this morning but for a different reason. Usually on this section of highway we’re getting close to home often at the end of a long day of travel. Today our total driving time will be just over an hour. We’re heading to a KOA west of Asheville to rendezvous with friends for a three day weekend! And we’re fresh enough to want to search for the cache: The Less-Used End of the Rest Area at the NC Welcome Center.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
Aboard Jewel of the Seas, a favorite ship of ours, we enjoyed a foray into the history and geology of Canada’s Atlantic coast while enjoying the joys of friendships, longtime and new. Now we’re looking forward to returning to the same ship for further adventures!
Oh, yes! We did find the geocache and it was well worth the effort.
Ha! That song about bottles on a wall comes to mind. Enjoy your rendezvous. I hope your weekend weather there, is drier than it’s forecasted to be here.