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(07-09-2020 06:20 PM)namrag Wrote:  

(07-09-2020 12:11 PM)MickMack Wrote:  

(07-08-2020 10:16 PM)namrag Wrote:  

(07-08-2020 03:39 PM)MickMack Wrote:  Appreciate that '92. NC is such a beautiful state. We'll be passing through on the way to Hilton Head on Friday, but hope to get back for a long stay in the near future.

That’s what we did three weeks ago.
We left home north of Dayton mid-day Friday and spent the night in Asheville, then drove the rest of the way to hilton head on Saturday.

I wanted barbecue in Asheville, but pretty much all the good places were carry out only.

Lots of boarded up businesses downtown with graffiti spray painted everywhere. It did not look good at all.
It made for a boring Friday night.
My daughter and I had a nice run Saturday morning before heading to HH.

We stayed at Hilton head for the week, and all the talk was the spike in Covid cases. We left for home on Saturday 27 June. The following Monday the city council mandated masks everywhere.

That's crazy about downtown Asheville. Exact same thing we're doing, more or less. Leaving Friday after work, staying in Asheville Friday night and then on to HH Saturday morning. We're not too concerned about the spike. We rented a house near Palmetto Dunes. It has a pool there. Beach is a block away. We can keep everything pretty self-contained.

Yeah downtown Asheville was pretty tore up. Which surprised me because most people there are very liberal. So why tear up “woke” people’s stuff????

We stayed at coligny, north forest beach. We were in a condo with the pool complex, beach bar, and maybe a couple hundred meters from the coligny public beach entrance.

The beaches were pretty chill. Plenty of room to social distance.

The beach bars were crowded.

The restaurants were crowded, but they removed tables to give some social distancing. Use an app for dinner reservations, or else you will have a couple hour wait.

When we were there the stores were busy and very little mask wearing. Like i said, as soon as we left they implemented masks everywhere.

We always eat out for dinner when we go on vacation. My wife and i feel that we both work, so when we are on vacation we don’t want to have to cook meals and clean up afterwards.

Awesome, man. Thanks for the intel. My primary memory of Asheville is getting accosted by some dumpster diving wacko hippies in the parking lot of a pizza joint there. I made the unforgivable mistake of trying to back up to get to a parking space (didn't come close to hitting their truck - just backed up). Couple pulled up next to us and started screaming and threatening us. It was freaking bizarre. Haven't really been back since. I've heard good things though. We'll try to make it back when things get a little more normal, especially in light of all the great backpacking down there.