Bad Boys Bachelor Broadly in Boone
Boone’s a pretty big city by Appalachia standards. We didn’t actually stay in the city of course, I’m not sure who’s visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains to sleep in the valley because I’m not friends with those kinds of people, but we drove through it several times. It was nice, charming as far as any city with 20k permanent residents can be. We stayed on a mountain about 15 minutes outside the city center, still technically Boone but far enough to at least pretend we’d gotten away from it all. If you’ve never been to the Appalachian mountains it might be useful to disillusion you of some preconceptions the word mountain may have brought up. These aren’t the Rockies with their towering, snow capped peaks and severe beauty. From our cabin, ostensibly near the “summit” of our particular prominence, we could see for tens of miles out over rolling hills and valleys that more often than not would fill with lazily rolling fog banks. It is a quieter, more ethereal kind of nat...