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Discover Asheville's Unique Charms The goal of AshevilleBliss.com is to reveal to visitor, newcomer, and long time resident alike, what makes Asheville so blissful, including aspects of Asheville's BLISS which aren't so readily apparent... to make these many wonderful islands and rivers of little-known bliss accessible ... in a way which has never before been done.
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Discover the Bliss of Asheville as it's happening right now... by checking us out on Facebook!Asheville is not just ONE kind of bliss... it's layer upon layer of bliss... bliss which is often subtle, often hidden, with many aspects taking time and networking to discover.CLICK HERE to Discover the magic and bliss of Asheville at night! "Untamed Waterfalls" of North Carolina. Some of Asheville's many charms are obvious, highly touted, and easy to find. Who doesn't know that Asheville is home to the largest private residence in the United States, Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate... and that world class Grove Park Inn continues to be attract the kind of discriminating traveller that made Asheville a destination for presidents and kings. Salseros828, Maria 'Guajira' Voisin, Director
'Tribute to Ray Barreto' at the Salseros828 5 year Anniversary & Xmas party "Asheville is the only city in the
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World: ".... Asheville, North Carolina, with its idyllic mountain setting and proliferation of good restaurants and New Age healing spas, is enjoying a vogue as a happy place to live. As one newly arrived resident puts it, "A lot of people spin the globe and their finger stops on Asheville." "....the author is correct, nice weather, affordable housing, lovely scenery, and a slower pace of life, yet an active cultural scene..." |
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Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!
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Discover the Bliss of Kayaking in Western North Carolina! CLICK HERE for more.
Outside Best Towns Issue:
Asheville #1 'Best Place to
Live' in Southeast
"...YOU CAN LEARN A LOT about a town from the stickers on locals' cars. One that's always nice to see: KEEP ASHEVILLE WEIRD. An island of liberal alternative culture, the town attracts artists, musicians, and, of course, plenty of outdoor funhogs. Cradled in a lush green bowl anchored by 5,721-foot Mount Pisgah and surrounded on all sides by the Appalachian Mountains, Asheville serves up more than 2,000 miles of hiking and mountain-biking trails and some of the nation's finest whitewater creeking. In downtown's compact grid, infused with art deco brick buildings, it's not uncommon to see a "suit" in deep confab with a natty dread about the past evening's mountain-bike ride at Cane Creek. Live-music venues host a regular lineup of top-shelf bands (recently, the Smashing Pumpkins announced an artists-in-residence extended-stay performance at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club), and every July the town hosts Bele Chere, the Southeast's largest free outdoor festival, with some 70 bands. Though the population of surrounding Buncombe County has swelled to 222,174, prompting an anti-development backlash, the city retains its small-town vibe. Don't worry: Asheville will still be plenty weird by the time you get there...."
Smashing Pumpkins"Aeroplane Flies High" at the Orange Peel
Frommer's Picks Asheville
as TopTravel Destination
According to Frommer's Top Travel Destinations of 2007. Asheville has joined such worldly cities as Tokyo and Zurich as 'must see' destinations for world travelers.
"This year, editors at Frommer's Travel Guides and Frommers.com scoured the globe and polled our stable of authors and experts to identify a mix of surprising, thriving, or emerging travel destinations," said Kelly Regan, editorial director of Frommer's.'
Frommer's says: "Located in the Smoky Mountains, Asheville is a small college town with a thriving arts, culture, and gay & lesbian scene. It is home to the Biltmore Estate, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, and Carl Sandburg's birthplace in nearby Flat Rock. Recently, Asheville has been drawing literati and celebrities who had gravitated to New Orleans as a hub of culture. With the Blue Ridge Parkway nearby, the area is also great for driving tours and shopping trips to numerous crafts and pottery shops (we suggest picking up a hand-made broom)."
A Crazy 19 Hours in Asheville...
Crazy night on the town in Asheville, NC. Fire shows, asheville celebrity, party, tap dancing, breakfast, art opening, and more... puts the "Weird" in "Keep Asheville Weird"!
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| Finding Your Way in Asheville is ".... a different kind of guide book. Instead of offering glossy photos and paid insertions from big bucks advertisers, it gives you the kind of information you'd get from a best friend who moved to Western North Carolina twenty years ago. "I've discovered the greatest place for a romantic dinner," she'd say. "Just around the corner from Pritchard Park. Here, let me draw you a map." It's a selective guide in that the authors share the places they've come to love while living, working, dining out, partying, biking, hiking, canoeing and raising children in the "Paris of the South." | |
| America's Castles: The Biltmore Estate "...the grandest of all American homes... Biltmore dwarfs all the mansions built by his illustrious forefathers... . a remarkable top-to-bottom tour of the largest home ever built in America. With its 255 rooms, the Biltmore is a monument to the extravagance and eccentricity of its owner. See footage of its construction, and go behind the scenes with the men and women who work there to learn the secrets of this incredible mansion. Get a privileged tour of rooms that are off-limits to the public, and marvel at the magnificent treasures that Vanderbilt collected....." | |
| Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place "... Few people realize what effort it took to design and construct the largest private residence in the United States, but this book details it all from the breaking of the ground to the designing of the curtain rods. This book is one of the best written and most appealing architectural history books ever. The photographs and drawings in it are also to be commended. Many of the pictures offer breathtaking views of the mansion and its grounds as well as showing many vintage photographs taken at various times throughout its construction and times of residence...." | |
There are many blissful activities in Asheville! To locate them, go to Google.com and search on "Asheville activities".
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