go hike a mountain

First of all, I want to thank everyone for the comments you’ve been leaving. We really look forward to them. Anyway, we’ve completed 20 of the state highpoints and it’s been less than a year since we started! We didn’t even attempt Clingman’s Dome because some roads were closed for the season and we heard […]

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February 24, 2008
Jesse woke up this morning and decided he needed to see an alligator. I took him to the boardwalk at Payne’s Prairie, but we didn’t see any here. There was someone photographing a pair of bald eagles across the street, but I didn’t have the right lens for bird photography, so I left […]

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February 21, 2008
We woke up to gray skies and mild wind this morning, not bad weather for tromping around on the land my parents and aunt and uncle own. There’s a total of about 11 acres all together, three semi-flattened lots for houses and the land behind the lots that extends to the top of […]

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We slept in late again and said our goodbyes to the family and the dogs.

We had planned on driving straight to my aunt’s cabin near Asheville, NC, but I decided to call the Mt. Mitchell State Park for information about their road closings. I had originally read that some of the area would be closed […]

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February 18, 2008
We slept in pretty late this morning headed to the Raleigh-Durham area to try and catch my sister while she was in the hospital. She gave birth to an adorable baby boy on February 15 and as it turned out, they had left the hospital the night before. We made our way to […]

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