Discover and Celebrate the Bliss of AshevilleBliss.com's Mission

It is the mission of AshevilleBliss.com to

Reveal and celebrate the many diverse aspects of what makes Asheville... and indeed Western North Carolina... so unique and wonderful... through words, links to other websites, photos, and embedded videos ... in a way that has never before been done. AshevilleBliss.com already embeds or links to more relevant videos about Asheville and Western North Carolina than any other website.

Create or enhance a feeling of community pride and spirit -- revealing to both residents and visitors alike a BLISSFUL WHOLE that is far greater than the sum of its individual parts.

To have residents of North Carolina to fall in love all over again with where they are living...and remember why they came here in the first place... and to discover new reasons to love where they are at..

To create Community Participation in the site by having Volunteer Editors for each of the 140+ topics to be covered in the site providing new and relevant information on an ongoing basis.

To create an easy way for residents and visitors to find out about and participate in all of the many delightful activities and entertainments Asheville has to offer.... by putting a variety of CALENDARS into one easy to access page.

To make it easy for the residents and businesses of Asheville and Western North Carolina to share ALL of the many wonderful and unique aspects of this area with their out-of-town friends and relatives and prospective customers and clients ... by putting ALL of the reasons people love Asheville and Western North Carolina in one easily navigable website.

To provide a website that has so much valuable and relevant information that over time it becomes the authority for anyone wanting to know anything about the Asheville area. Other sites will naturally want to link to us ... which will in turn give us a higher rating in search engines like Google... which will in turn give all of the businesses and activities listed and featured in AshevilleBliss.com increasingly greater exposure. Truly a win/win/win situation!

To provide a venue for anyone who wants to promote their business or activity a dignified and believable way for them to do so, via purchased 'advertorials' similar to those bordered textboxes with photos which you see sprinkled throughout this site.

To provide a free "super-concierge service" to the entire hospitality industry in Western North Carolina -- giving their prospective guests lots of reasons to come to the Asheville area... and once they arrive, to stay a little longer and come back more often.

To make it easy for Asheville businesses such as hotels and B&B's who depend upon attracting out-of-town visitors, or companies who wish to attract high-level employees to this area, to have easy and inexpensive access to a constantly updated and CUSTOMIZED (they get to feature ONLY those pages they choose and leave out any competition or anything which might not reflect their values) version of AshevilleBliss.com which can be integrated with their website for a small monthly fee. CLICK HERE for details

To showcase and integrate all that makes Asheville so wonderful in such a way as to create a 'dialogue' with its readers, act as a spring-board and source of informaton for new ideas -- with the hope of enabling those readers to continue to take Asheville to even greater heights of blissfulness and wonderfulness.

We wil be adding aspects of interactivity to AshevilleBliss.com as time goes by, in the form of a blog, a multi-faceted forum as additional ways for visitors to share photos, videos, information and thoughts..... creating a wonderful virtual community unlike anything that has ever existed in the process ... and creating a prototype for similar sites and communities to be created worldwide.

We welcome all of your comments, your suggestions, and your input in helping us achieve this mission.

After all, Asheville wouldn't be quite so blissful if it wasn't for you!

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!

From Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog: I've never been one of those uptight literary types who thinks that you have to have actually read a book in order to recommend it to others. So I feel no trepidation in suggesting Eric Weiner's new travelogue-slash-memoir The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World The premise of the book is simple but intriguing-- here is Amazon's description:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

In the imaginary Netflix queue of books-that-I'm-planning-to-read, this one has just jumped to the top. By the way, why has no one started a Netflix for books? This question, and many more, I'll leave for another day.