Things to Do with One Day in Asheville, North Carolina

Without really consciously planning it this way, 2018 ended up being “the year of The South” for me. 

I always make it a point to travel a bit in the US every year, simply because it’s huge and diverse and there are so many parts of it I have yet to see. And for my US-based explorations in 2018, I visited mostly Southern cities. There was a girls trip to New Orleans in the late spring, visits to Memphis and Nashville in the summer, and then a jaunt down to Asheville, North Carolina, in early September.

I admit that I didn’t know a whole lot about Asheville before visiting. I knew it was up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and I had heard it was emerging as a cool, funky foodie city. But I didn’t know much else and went to Asheville with basically no expectations…