Sitting at a table in the dining room of the Rivers & Rails Tavern in Dillsboro, North Carolina, Craig Szymanski looks out the window and watches a family wander down the row of shops on Front Street in the small, bucolic community. With the late afternoon sunshine falling behind the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains, the hungry group notices the lights of the popular tavern. … [Read more...] about Coast to Coast and Carolina, too: Chef brings culinary flare to Jackson County, North Carolina
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Dodging rain on the Adriatic: Virginia rider tours the Balkans
The landscape, what I could see of it through the gloom, was green and verdant, reminiscent of my native southwest Virginia, but higher and wilder. I was south of Plitvice Lakes National Park, following a string of red taillights of my fellow travelers. Even a week before from home, the Weather Channel’s long-range forecast for this Adriatic area looked ominous, so I packed … [Read more...] about Dodging rain on the Adriatic: Virginia rider tours the Balkans