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I'm in Wilmington, and it's about to rain really hard. I know this because I slept through the storm last night outside of Charlotte, and then drove through it on my way here. Now I get to chill out in my tent while it ravages Wilmington. Wish me luck!

Charlotte is nice, but...

I actually spent the last couple days in Fort Mills SC, at a lake house with my aunt, uncle, and cousin. It was quite relaxing, and a very nice change of pace. We ate delicious food, and did some canoe-ing, but mostly just chilled out and chatted. Good times. From here I'm heading to Wilmington NC, not sure where I'm gonna set up camp there yet, hopefully there aren't too many tourists taking up the good camping spots.

Some Pictures

Lots of new pics up on my Flickr photostream. I tried posting some highlights here, but they got cutoff by the margins on the page. Tips on fixing that?

Asheville NC!

I pretty much love this place. It's almost as good as Portland. I'm at an independent bookstore right now, Malaprops, and I'm gonna explore around downtown today. There's a museum I want to check out, two restaurants with lots of vegan food (Rosetta's Kitchen and Laughing Seed), and the city sponsors both free wifi access in the downtown area, and live music performances in a small park downtown.

Last night I hung out with Bryophyte from the PPK and she was pretty darn cool. We grabbed some dinner at Rosetta's and then walked around downtown a bit, but a lot of stores were closed by 5:00, so I'm gonna hit them up today. We also saw a belly dancer/drum performance in the public park, and then grabbed some beers at Jack of the Woods bar, which is owned by the Green Man brewing company. I'm going to do a brewery tour there later today. Hell, if they're hiring I might not leave here.

Logan, West Virginia is boring.

That's where I am right now, or at least near it I guess. There's not much around here.

Anyway, this past weekend I got to meet a lot more PPKers, and they were lovely people and I had a very good time eating lots of tasty vegan food and going down natural waterslides and having water fall on me under a waterfall, and also watching water fall at Fallingwater.

Carnegie Museums etc...

ok so I don't have a ton of time here in the city because I want to get back before dark, it's an hour and a half drive, and I got a late start, but just coming up here for the museums was totally worth it. I couldn't take pictures of most of the Art museum parts, but I got the most important thing from the Natural History section: mother-fucking Dinosaurs! I took pics of other things, but Flickr is being stupid and not letting me upload past a certain amount, so you just get dinosaur pics today. Go check them out here (same link as yesterday, in case you missed it). The newest pics should be at the front I think.

Anyway, the other pics I have are from some neat buildings downtown, and other parts of the natural history museum. I think I'm gonna take Sarchan's suggestion of Quiet Storm for some dinner food before I head back.

Pittsburgh!

I'm in Pittsburgh for the day, at the Carnegie Museum of Art/Natural History. I've taken some pics, I'll post those later when I have a place to plug in for power.