Just like that, summer rolls around and I'm nowhere to be found. My budget hasn't allowed for any grand adventures, so instead I've made several trips to Knoxville for Sundown in the City, as well as a roadtrip to Roanoke, Virginia to see my brother. I visited the Booker T. Washington Memorial in Hardy, but didn't realize the plantation where he worked was a short distance away until I got to my brother's and looked it up on the internet. Today I made a short roadtrip to Mountain City with a friend. It was a beautiful town, appropriately named, with some very interesting characters.
Last week, I hiked up to Beauty Spot in Erwin where I met two hikers who are heading North on the Appalachian Trail. I definitely want to hike the AT at some point. They had many colorful stories and I was tempted to forget about summer school and join them on their journey. Eileen Rush, my friend who is a reporter at the Erwin Record, snapped the photos at the top...
