the onward journey...

Thursday morning we went for a great breakfast in Asheville (at the superbly titled Over Easy) before heading off to see some more wonders of Smoky Mountains. We spent the afternoon driving around winding hilly roads looking out for anything that caught our eye, such as the Looking Glass Waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest, and by dark it was time to hit the highway again and head towards Charleston.

We arrived in Charleston at about 8pm and desperately looked for a coffee shop so we could hop on the internet. The only place we could find was a Starbucks, but refused to use it, so we asked a local who told us of a nearby place called Kudu coffee. We didn't have a place to stay, and this time had no such luck with our lastminute couchsurf requesst. We were told of a local hostel which would come it at $20 each for a dorm or $50 for a private room, but you had to check in at 10pm by the latest. Drew then found a cheap motel nearby that would cost $47 for a room with two queen beds, so we opted for that and a solid night's sleep. Pizza in hand, we headed there, ate, heads hit the pillow, and our best sleep for a few nights was had.

Next morning we began what was probably my favourite day's travelling thus far...