Traveling to Asheville

After Christmas at the Layburns ended, Brad and I decided to take a mini-vacation of our own. Flying off somewhere proved to be too expensive so we decided to head off to Asheville, NC which is only about a 3 hour drive up in to the mountains of NC.

Much like on our way to Charleston, SC, when we saw a million signs for "South of the Border" and just had to stop; on this trip, there were many, many signs for "JR's". Billboard after billboard promising amazing riches of cigars, jeans, socks, antique dolls, towels ... pretty much any random thing that you could imagine.

Of course, we couldn't resist :) So, off to JR's, we went. Here we are in the parking lot, marking our triumphant arrival at shopping mecca, or as the signs told us - "we were about the enter the ultimate shopping zone"!



Unfortunately, the ultimate shopping zone was a major disappointment :(

Unless you are looking for some camouflage, I think you can skip this stop. We bought a nail clipper, some candy for the roadtrip and a bunch of Christmas gift bags. Not quite the goldmine that we were hoping for but still an entertaining side-trip.