Road Trips Rediscovered..

Its been awhile since I embarked on a genuine road trip.. Sure I have gone on long trips with good friends.. but with a destination in mind... You know like a 2am trek to Charleston with Sarah and kiddos for Kristin's wedding. Or the journey last summer to St Augustine with my Mom for our annual girls beach trip. This one was different, however. We went to Asheville... For Biscuits.

My friend Laura has a gluten allergy. I have known her for almost 5 years, and have watched her drool over cakes and cookies that came into our office. ( I have seen her swipe some much coveted icing, but we won't tell anyone!) Well, Laura and her hubby Scott recently discovered a restaurant in Asheville that is organic and gluten free! Imagine her delight at discovering a gluten free biscuit that ..wait for it... tasted GOOD! Since her reserves of frozen biscuits were running low, she needed to go stock up. I, in need of a change in scenery, volunteered to make the trek with her.

We left around 8:30 and headed up 985, throught Clayton and Dillsboro, we passed the cabin in Franklin that has housed many a girls weekend, and kept going to Asheville. We had some pretty colorful stops and interactions.. on purpose of course!

My favorite, was the guy we will call wandering eye Joe.. He sold us some AWESOME boiled peanuts at the Tallulah Gorge overlook, and invited us to a party. (http://www.gastateparks.org/TallulahGorge)

We drove through the Warrior Dash Traffic.. umm. yeah.. not sure what the costumes are about, but it looks fun! (http://www.warriordash.com/register2011_georgia.php)

We did some "antiquing" ( both of us ended up with books.) And of course, we ate at Posana (http://www.posanacafe.com/).. GOOOD, so good!!!

We topped it off with some YUMMY chocolate from here. http://frenchbroadchocolates.com/

Yesterday was such a good time of sweet fellowship with a sweet friend. So I challenge you to go do something random, like we used too!!!