The Search Begins

As we have been in Tennessee we have been having a great time searching the area just waiting to be inspired, I guess. We have spent many hours in the car and looking around neat old Tennessee towns. There is one town that is located only about 15-20 minutes from Johnson City that has kind of captured our hearts a little. Its a small town called Jonesborough. The old town has character and history and definitely has the southern hospitality that you always hear about. On Friday nights they shut down main street completely and have music concerts. Michael, Emma and I went twice during our stay here and we all loved it! They have a complete variety of music, and its not just old time country bluegrass either, which I'm not a fan of. Emma has been having a ball going to these concerts and trying hard to become a member of the bands! :) She has no fear and will approach the band and start dancing to the music. We have already made friends in Jonesborough, largely due to Emma. It's amazing how many friends you obtain when you have children!

We also had a chance to run down to Asheville, NC for a few days, which is only an hour or so away from Johnson City and look around there. During that trip we had a crazy adventure getting lost in the mountains on a back road somewhere looking for a town that didn't seem to exist, but someone had recommended it to us. There were even signs on the interstate, and our GPS was telling us it was there, but my goodness it just wasn't there!!!! We felt like we were in the twilight zone or in Deliverance country! :) After hours of being lost and some very tense moments in the car after the fun of the chase had left us, we decided to leave it alone and just try to get back to JC. We came to find out that this "town" that someone had told us about was a gated community on the top of  the mountain and only homeowners could enter. They pretty much have their own town in this gated community where nobody else was allowed to enter. WIERD!!!! Not for us thanks!