Recommendations for Asheville NC, Richmond VA etc.
 

Hey
I am driving down to North Caorlina tomorrow for about a week. On my way down I thought about spending a few hours in Richmond VA for a few hours. Does anyone know what are some good places to check out and walk around there?

Then, in a few days i am going to be going to Asheville NC before driving to NYC through the Blue Ridge Parkway. So if anyone can recommend me some good places to eat/see shows in Asheville, preferably folk, country, bluegrass, old timey stuff. And if anyone knows of some nice hiking trails as well as camping grounds on the blue ridge parkway that would be great.

Thanks a bunch!

poe's old house is in richmond and it's a funky little tour if you like his stuff (there's another poe home in baltimore but it was in a drug war zone)

in richmond they have a nice art museum too i think it was near VCU and the little neighborhood around it

and gmku lives in asheville so aX him

okay happy sunday seeya

hey thanks for the recommendation. i walked passed the house but it seemed closed, as did about everything else in Richmond. today i move on the Asheville. so if gmku has any place that he feels i should see there it would be much appreciated!

Harvest Records!

Wedge Brewery!

Pisgah Brewery!

The Orange Peel!

Asheville? more like Ass-ville.

Wow, that's incredibly witty. Do you make this stuff up or do you have writers?

Please, do you think writers can come up with comedy gold liek that?

I imagine Asheville to be the worst place to be pregnant.

Why?

thanks!
i am looking for a shortish hike for today, so maybe i will do pisgah.

and maybe later check out the brewerys.

other than buskers is there a place where one can regularly find like old time music being played? last night i only found an open mike night, but it was far from old time music.

so i never made it to the orange peel and only drove past harvest records. however i did go to the wedge brewery. their, i think it was hemp ale, was one of the best beers that i have had.

and i climbed mount pisgah on a beautiful day. it was really nice and sucha lovely walk and amazing view.

all in all asheville was really cool. i guess the trick there is to go out towards evening which is when the interesting things happen. unfortunately i didn't hear that much old time music, however i saw some great dixieland/early jazz type bands, which were great.


this band was excellent

Asheville's really not about old timey music. There are some bands around here that do that, but they're the exception. Sanctum Scully is a great bluegrass-based band that is also very jazzy and bluesy. They even do a great cover of Billie Jean, all the while sounding like a bluegrass band. They are very cool.

But yeah, mostly Asheville is about alt/indie rock or whatever it's called these days.

Glad you got into Pisgah. I should have recommended that. Great area for hiking.

Wedge is a great brewery but I like Pisgah brewery better, more adventurous, more into stronger Belgian styles, and they're a great music venue.