anotherkindofdrew blog

First of all, I have lost my chapstick. For most people this is no big deal. But for me? It is HUGE. I have been addicted to Oxybenzone for nearly five years now. Tomorrow morning I will get a new tube from the first place I find it. Tonight may be a long, long night.

At any rate, I write tonight from Johnson City, Tennessee. Why J.C. you ask? No reason. It is just shy of Asheville and is considerably more affordable. Pan and I were able to Priceline it and turns out it is a pretty nice room. We even have free local calls and HBO!

This morning began as a Maxwell Morning as we guzzled down some brew from the Snow White Grill in Winchester, VA. Great food and you can read my review on Yelp, if you like.

After we ate we took a stroll through the pedestrian mall and enjoyed the sites of yet another small, confederate town along our route. I have to say that there was nothing of particular note in Winchester although it was a quaint area. Alas, we traveled on. We traveled ever so slightly up the road and pulled into Staunton, VA – home to Mary Baldwin College and the Sunspots Studio .

Sunspots is a wonderful little glass blowing studio full of all sorts of vases, ornaments, gazing balls, necklaces, etc. Whilst there we got to watch the artisan blow out a glass Christmas ornament. It was very cool and Pan and I both decided to try glass blowing before we die.

After enjoying a lunch of Fajitas at the Baja Bean Co. we got back in the truck and took to the Interstate. Our third stop was somewhere just around Roanoke, VA at a little gas station that had dirty floors in the convenient store part but immaculate restrooms. Very odd but somehow very encouraging. The best part of the stop was the view of the mountains around the service station.

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