here comes the rain again

[cheeze]

i went camping this weekend, at the nolichucky, with a fair-sized group of people. it was good times, despite the cold and wet. tomorrow i'll try to get some pictures uploaded, if i have a few minutes in between studying and finishing a print. (sheisskuchen, finishing my print!) right now i'm much too happy to be clean, dry, and home to spend

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[melanie]

did you stay at Rick Murray's campground?

[cheeze]

errrrr... i'm not sure, i wasn't the one who arranged everything. it was up in the gorge, if that tells you anything...

[melanie]

where the whitewater rafting place is, USA Raft, and the hiker hostel for the Appalachian Trail? Right there ON the river? Jones Branch Road?

[cheeze]

honestly, i have no clue.

to get there, you get off the last exit before you start going up the mountains to nc, take a left off the exit, then a right directly after crossing over the interstate, past the hotel and the gas station with the a&w. go down maybe two miles, take a left and go along a skinny windy road following above the river next to the train tracks, and at the end is the campground, right on the river. there are cabins there, and a rafting place, but i don't know much more.

[melanie]

yep, that's the place. rick murray owns that campground, he's been a friend of mine since i was 16.

i left home when i was 16 and that's where i went. i got a job managing the Whitewater Cafe over on the rafting side and lived in a tent in the woods there for a year. eventually i got my waiver and did raft guiding too, but my main job was managing that restaurant.

[cheeze]

nice. i wouldn't mind living there for a time- it's a beautiful place.