Blue Ridge Mountains

And finally for this trip, he was like, I came in one morning and he had a coffee maker going, there and he had it plugged into the inverter and he had it on uh the battery and he was checking voltages to see how much voltage a pot of coffee took off this inverter yes and i'm like well i'm glad the thing still works because it's been on the shelf as about as long as our kids

have been around 100 100 now and i will get into this just a smidgen bit here folks um And while Robert does or doesn't have signal, I want to make sure I give him a shout out because he's in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Maverick Jeep Alliance.

They just three nights camping, wheeling and badge of honors trails down in Maryland and Virginia.

So he got just enough signal to say hello.

I guess first we could, you know, if you don't mind giving our listeners kind of an idea, like what is this book? What is this book about? Without giving spoilers.

When Walker Title refers to a a legendary clan of healers that lived in the 1800s in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

And so the novel follows the effect on a young doctor's life when he begins recalling a past life that he lived when he lived with the Windwalkers 100 years earlier.

The book is set, uh, in the 1967, 1981 timeframe.

Yeah, that's an incredible career right there.

That's amazing to me.

What drew you to the Blue Ridge Mountains? So like North Carolina, Asheville, that component of the story, what drew you to that?

When I was younger, my parents sent my brother and I to camp

I drove to Washington.

You go through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and when we were coming home, we went through the back roads of west side of Virginia, The Blue Ridge Mountains, we took Skyline Drive, then we took an alternate route.

By the way, don't let GPS be your map.

Always bring a real map with you because they let us.

That's out there, my friend.

We were on a two-lane road in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, and I was telling the wife, I said, where's it leading us? She says, well, eventually we get there.

It was a three-hour excursion off of Route 81 into the Blue Ridge Mountains and Monongahela National Forest and you name it.

But all the gas prices there were lower in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia than Ohio, nearly 50 cents lower.

I'm getting that name wrong, I'm sure.

But It was the idea, obviously, they play in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and so that's where the ridge comes from.

Yak, according to the team, is a nickname for a kayak, and they, you know, play in a sort of outdoorsy area.

The thing is that, like, outdoorsy people who sort of heard that were like, I've never heard anyone call a kayak a yak before, right? So their logo was like a yak and a kayak.

Three, name and give the capitals of states touching the Ohio River.

Four, locate the following mountains, Blue Ridge, Himalaya, Andes, Alps, Wasatch.

Five, through what waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal to Manila? Okay, that one I couldn't do.

But if I had been studying that in school, I'm sure I could regurgitate it for this test.

these things.

What could you call it? The Pisgah National Forest Trophy? The Blue Ridge? The Appalachian Trail Trophy? Appalachian Trail Trophy.

Well, they had Davy Crockett and we had, you know, Andrew

Jackson, Andrew

It was just, there wasn't enough space.

So I looked for a new space and I found one on the beautiful, about one acre property overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains.

And it has a 1400 square foot shop and a tiny home on it.

So it was a nice arrangement where I work in the studio and actually rent out the tiny home.

And now, the Brown Mountain Lights.

The Brown Mountain Lights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have long been a fascinating Appalachian Mountain enigma.

Visitors and locals alike have witnessed unusual glowing orbs in shades of blue, white, orange, and red hovering about 15 feet above the ground in Brown Mountain near Morganton, North Carolina.

According to legend, a fierce fight between Cherokee and Catawba Braves on Brown Mountain resulted in numerous casualties.

I love visiting both the...

Blue Ridge Mountains and the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina and walking trails.

And I get a lot of inspiration just from being out and about.

And Probably Hattie Mae was the first character, which we know Great Aunt Hattie Mae, she lives in the foothills in Tennessee, and she has a greenhouse in the forest behind her cabin where she grows toxic plants.