I made it back from my weekend trip to the mountains near Burnsville, North Carolina. I slammed that SubscribeStar Saturday post out after being up since 5:30 AM, two hundred miles of driving, and a full day of family fun in Asheville, so I skimped on some details, even if I hit the main points I wanted to address.
It was a very rushed trip, with my girlfriend and I departing around 11 AM Sunday to take in some sights before rushing back to prepare for our busy workweeks. We managed to spend a little time in Burnsville, which is named for Captain Otway Burns, a sailor and hero of the War of 1812. A statue of Captain Burns, erected in 1909, stands in the town square, with an inscription that reads, “He Guarded Well Our Seas, Let Our Mountains Honor Him.”
From there, we headed into the mountains, eventually reaching the Blue Ridge Parkway. Our destination was Mount Mitchell State Park, which provides easy access to the summit of Mount Mitchell. Mount Mitchell is the highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains, and the highest in the eastern continental United States.
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