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Your vacation home has 5 bedrooms, which includes a deck off both the master bedroom and the main bedroom. A private full bathroom and two closets for the master bedroom and the main bedroom has frosted pocket doors that lead to another bedroom. There is a full bathroom on the second floor for the other three bedrooms and a full bathroom across from the fifth bedroom on the first floor. An enclosed, private, lockable outdoor shower is provided on the deck for after your day at the beach, fishing, golf, cycling, etc..
The master and main bedrooms both have queen size beds, the attached bedroom to the main has 2 twins, the bedroom next to the master and the first floor bedroom each have a double bed. Each bedroom has their own ceiling fan to help keep you comfortable during your time here. You can hear the peaceful ocean waves from each room of this home.
There is a sun-room located off the sun-porch/rainy day room, where you can enjoy the outdoors scenery from the comfort of being inside. The sun-porch/rainy day room is designed to accommodate families on rainy days when space for children to play is at a premium, while everyone else gets ready for the day!
The living room has a 47' wall-mounted LED HD TV with Wifi internet service, local news and regional sports channels, situated in a comfortable seating arrangement that has a picture window to the ocean views of the deck and backyard.
The kitchen and dining areas are ample, with a large cooking surface on the Thermador Professional and an eight seat table. The breakfast nook will seat four and also has its own window for taking in the surrounding beauty. A Four Seasons outdoor grill is provided for all your bbq needs on your vacation.
The landscaped backyard has a clothesline for those who like to put the fresh air of the ocean on their laundry and we also provide an indoor washer and dryer for your use.
Maplewood is located on a quiet street at the end of the Misquamicutt Beaches and avoids the congestion that comes with summer beach visits. You can use the beach passes provided to go to the local beaches with your car, if you want to go to a life-guard attended area and bring all your beach gear with you. There is parking for a maximum of three cars at Maplewood. In season we rent from Saturday to Saturday.
The sunsets over Watch Hill are amazing and are different every night. Be sure to bring your camera to capture some of these views as you look over the ocean.
Our family has been coming to the shores of RI for over 45 years and have experienced this unique coastline from Newport, RI to Mystic, CT. Having grown up in New England, we've also visited the most of the Northeast's coast from Nova Scotia, Canada to the shores of Long Island and Ocean City, Maryland. There are many beautiful and enjoyable places we have visited along the way, but none quite like here. We have many wonderful memories to treasure of our RI visits and know how much it meant for our family as we raised our children, and now our grand-children.
This location has all the pieces of putting together a fun, relaxing and memorable vacation as you enjoy the many activities and recreations available. Upon your arrival, we provide a notebook full of recommendations for you with regards to restaurants, recreations, shopping, etc. If you have specific needs in advance, we can try to provide that for you, as well.
This is a quiet street away from the summer beach traffic and congestion and it has its own private beach access. The views of the ocean, beach, Watch Hill, the pond, the golf course and even the swans who annually reside in the pond, the location couldn't be better. The main deck and two second floor decks provide private views that are unique and unspoiled by anything that surrounds the property. Three cars parking is an an advantage in this area, as you can entertain extra guests, along with your family.
Multiple choices for beaching, swimming, and other ocean activities. The surrounding area has several choices for golf, different types of fishing, cycling, hiking and outlet shopping. Rainy day activities are plentiful with Mystic Aquarium, museums and cinemas. Sightseeing opportunities abound with many villages in RI and in nearby Connecticut with ocean marinas as well in Stonington, Mystic, Westerly, Point Judith and Narragansett. Most traveling activities are within 20-30 minutes travel time. A trip to Newport, RI to view the mansions and shops or a ferry trip to Block Island are easily managed from this location and offer their own New England coastal experiences.
Westerly has a significant arts community with live theater choices through out the summer and a wide variety of live music to enjoy.
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|I ran a dishwasher full of canning jars last week when I put in a batch of tomatoes. I have lots that were cleaned but not used that I lined up on the counter waiting for more tomatoes. Now I need to can another batch of tomatoes. Do I need to run the jars I am going to use through another full dishwasher cycle again?
Also, how important is it that jars are still hot when the raw packed tomatoes are put in them? I once lost track of whether I had put in the citric acid and ended up putting in more just to be safe, so I find it helpful to line up a batch full of jars, put in the citric acid and then fill but I find by the time I fill them most have cooled. My process has been to line up the jars, blanch and peel tomatoes, fill and put lid on one jar and put it into the canner, then go on to the next jar. I have a smaller stove with limited overhead room due to an over the stove microwave, so keeping the canner and blanching water going and trying to keep jars in a pot of boiling water as well is difficult. If I do HAVE to keep the jars hot, I do have an instant hot water faucet with water at 190 degrees that I could fill, or partially fill the jars with, but I would have to empty each one before using it and try not to lose track of whether I put the citric acid in, lol.
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|Hot jars are important to prevent thermal shock breakage. And that is a mess you never want to have to clean up. :)
That doesn't mean you have to run them through the D/W but that is the easiest IMO. If not then a sink full of hot soapy water works and so does a pot of 180 degree water for them to sit in while waiting to be filled.
but I would have to empty each one before using it and try not to lose track of whether I put the citric acid in, lol.
That is the way to go. Just make the citric acid the last thing you do before setting on the lid. It just means a minor change in your assembly line.
- Posted by GeneTheNewGuy none (My Page) on Thu, Aug 16, 12 at 22:52
|I wonder if it would be ok to put them in the oven, set at say 200 degrees, on a cookie sheet? This being after they were washed thoroughly. You could pull out one or two at a time while keeping the rest in the oven. Anything wrong with this idea? Seems to me it would be pretty good. Gene
|OK, as long as its not a safety issue with the safety of the finished product. The oven is a nice idea, would not have thought of that.
Why the hot "Soapy" water? The jars have already been run through a full DW cycle. Do they need to be cleaned again from sitting on the counter? Also, most instructions specify a full DW cycle, but if it is just to heat up the glass, couldn't I use the light wash cycle as long as I use the heated dry? IF they really do need to be washed again, I am NOT washing them all by hand and so the oven is out, I would definitely use the DW. If they only need to be cleaned the one time, and I just need to heat them up before using them, then the oven would be faster.
|The jars should not go dry into the oven. You can put a roaster with water in it and sit in the oven on low, but dry jars will often shatter.
You don't need to rewash the jars.
|As long as they are hot, that's the important issue. I only mention soapy water because unless you live in a sterile lab, anything sitting around on a counter for a day or so, much less a week, will have collected dust and other airborne bacteria and molds. So re-washing something I'm going to pack food into is no big deal IMO.
|I always heat dry jars in the oven and have never had them shatter. But they need to go into the cold oven which you then heat up slowly. I put them through the dish washer first to physically clean them but the oven gets them much hotter and sterilizes them. They take 150c easily.... and bearing in mind my slovenly Euro ways these are recycled jars of all shapes and sizes.
|Your right, Dave, in the DW, no big deal. There are quite a few jars, though, so its a little more effort to hand wash. Anyway, thanks everyone. I wasn't clear on the reason for the hot jars, so this helps a lot.
- Posted by jimnginger 9 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 19, 12 at 9:15
|When you wash a jar, let it dry, pop on a new lid, a piece of saran or other wrap, and apply the ring loosely.
Several things happen:
1. You have the ring with the jar and it will protect the top of the jar. Chips will be 100% eliminated.
2. You have a new lid and ring for your next canning project.
3. Covering your jar opening immediately reduces almost completely air contamination and physical contamination (flies, spiders, children, mice, etc.)
No more rewashing jars for a second time. A big box of plastic wrap from Costco or such costs so little money for a sheet/piece large enough to cover the top of a jar and keep it clean.
- Posted by Moms_Kitchen none (My Page) on Sun, Aug 19, 12 at 9:46
|All I do is put the jars in the boiling water bath canner to heat them - you've already got to heat the canner water anyway.
|I was pressure canning for the first time this year. I did two different processing times and now I would like to go back to BWB again. Then I can compare them. I had to reprocess a jar so I used the BWB and added one more jar to it to use a few more tomatoes. I am keeping the jars on the counters in the kitchen so they are handy when ever I have enough tomatoes.
I love the saran idea, I might do that next time I wash them. Great idea!
I also did use the BWB to heat them when I did the reprocess, but I was afraid of breakage if I put cold jars directly into boiling water. No worries?
|Put the jars in the canner before you turn on the heat. I put a basket (from the Discovery kit - not good for much else b/c it's so small) on top of the jars to heat the lids too. Keep everything at a simmer while filling jars. A bit messy pulling it out and putting it back in every time I get a jar out (and putting it back in), but saves having another small pan on the stove. Once all the jars are filled, I pull the basket out, put the lid on, and turn the heat up to get boiling.
I use either Saran, used lids, or Classico/PB lids when I store my used (washed) jars. I prefer the commercial lids, I don't have enough rings for all my jars, but it's also handy to have the rings right on the jars. It would be nice to have a new lid for each jar too, that sounds like it would certainly be convenient, but I'd have to buy (and keep buying!) an awful lot of lids to have enough to keep on each one of my yard-sale jars. Maybe just buy enough for the jars I (you) use frequently - for me it's jelly jars. I don't use the quarts much at all, but I'm a hoarder ;-) so Saran or used lids are fine for those, when I do go to use some I can pull new lids from a box and wash them quick (I always wash the rings each time anyway).
I keep my jars in the original boxes (when I have them) or liquor-store boxes, whatever kind of box they will fit into and fit on the shelves, helps reduce breakage/chipping (another reason I like lids or at least Saran and rings if I had enough).
|Do you know if the lids can be boiled more than once? I kept the lids simmering while I filled the jars, and not knowing exactly how many jars I could fill, I erred on the side of having one or two extra lids ready. I didn't use them, but could I heat the same one again during another canning session and use it? I don't want to risk having a jar not seal correctly since they aren't that expensive, I just hate to waste them.
Yes, you can just dry off the lids you've simmered, and use them next time. Try not to boil them - just a simmer to soften the sealing compound.
I always prep more lids and more jars than I think I'm going to need.
|Great, thank you!
|Like Flora, I put my jars in a cold oven, on a cold cookie sheet. I find it's much easier to grab each jar from the oven then to fish them from simmering water. In twenty-five years I've never had a jar break in the oven, but I've had two crack in simmering water. I must have done something wrong...
I'm sold on the oven method.
Flora, have you posted any of your recipes anywhere?
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Awww...don't i feel the love?
Anyway...I (speaking only for me, myself, and I) never said that the Avatar Thing would be BAD.
I have no clue. I am saying that Avatar is lacking of cultural significance.
I believe a previous poster said it was a novelty - the first big budget cgi full 3D release. That i can agree with.
But the silliness of facebook likes...even the raw sale numbers...changes nothing to counter that NOBODY has mentioned this thing in the last 5 years. Not a soul, not a peep. And new "fantastic avatar adventures" are not set up to change that. The story was pretty ho-hum/bad on the first one. More movies that lack depth are gonna make that better? I doubt.
You can compare it to the second two star wars "prequels"...the movies were garbage (third one better...but damage done)...and yet it still made alot of money. But that only continued to erode the Star Wars theme/brand over the long haul. Which now disney is trying to resurrect.
Avatar is set up to be a similar tale...and that is why I and many question the wisdom of this construction project. I'm not saying it won't be good...i have no idea...but the IP, frankly, isn't.
And i know this goes against the Comic Con type and they'll fight me. But that is not what disney is after. They tend to (and some fighting ARE those type and be honest with yourself) like anything that uses high technology and goes overboard on budget and bangs and whistles. Lets be honest. Disney is not after this segment...they want mass appeal that leads to sustained attendance and profit...and that is where this project can and should be questioned.
I think Avatar was just that. It was big and blue (pun intended) and made green (pun intended) and was a decent 2.5 hours of our lives. But that is all it was...and perhaps 22 bucks for the blu ray at walmart 10 months later.
To be honest...thats the second time james cameron stepped in it and this happened. When Titanic came out...if you recall...it was "one of a kind"? Well, it hung around for six months and everyone saw it twice and then...
everyone completely forgot about it for all eternity. They tried dusting it off last year and if kinda fizzed.
Lots of similarities with Avatar...which had NO competition at the box office for a solid four months like Titanic and just was what was "there"...
So that's the deal from me.
and just incase i'm jacking the thread, off topic, and "wasting somebody's time"...i authorize you to not read this post and get back to your quantum physics.
I love it when people claim they are being inconvenienced by reading these threads.
We are all here WASTING EACH OTHERS TIME...that is the point of this. Lighten up.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 31, 2008: Greg Olson and Anousheh Ansari speak at this year's International Space Development Conference. (Photo by Nancy Ostertag/NSS)
NASA isn't going anywhere very fast these days, but people in the space enthusiast community aren't as gloomy as you might expect. In fact, they seem more cheerful than I've seen them for years. The reason is that talk about "the space program" (singular) is out of date. Now there are numerous space programs, and while NASA's isn't doing especially well, others seem to be flourishing.
The so-called "space movement" emerged only after NASA's heyday had passed. During the 1960s, when impressive new accomplishments came one after another, those who favored human settlement of outer space were happy just to cheer NASA on. It was only when NASA began to lose momentum following the Apollo program that worried space supporters coalesced into a movement under the umbrella of two organizations: the establishmentarian National Space Institute, founded by Wernher von Braun and Hugh Downs, and the space-hippieish L5 Society, founded by fans of Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill's plan for orbital space colonies. The two groups merged in the 1980s to form the National Space Society, and they've been putting on an annual conference, the International Space Development Conference, for 27 years.
I attended a lot of those conferences back when they were geekfests with an ambience that was half Star Trek convention, half revival meeting. They were fun, and the discussions were often informative, but participants were for the most part on the outside looking in. There was a lot of political discussion, aimed mostly at getting NASA to do the right thing, and at getting Congress to fund NASA to do the right thing, but not a lot of other action.
When my daughter was born in 1995, I quit going for over a decade. I wasn't uninterested, just busy. Recently, though, I attended two conventions—in 2007 and 2008—and discovered that things are different today. From geekfests (not that there's anything wrong with that), the conferences have evolved into something more like the meeting of a professional or trade association. The crowd is better dressed, and often working in the field: one woman I remembered from years back as an activist with Students for the Exploration and Development of Space is now a professor of astronautics at MIT; another former student space activist now coordinates space matters for Google. And truly rich private sector enthusiasts are as conspicuous by their presence now as they were by their absence a decade or two ago.
The main source of excitement at this year's conference was space tourism—folks in the industry prefer the term "personal spaceflight"—involving many companies, from the well-known (Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic) to the sort-of-known (Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin) to the comparatively obscure (XCOR Aerospace). Just this week it was announced that Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to be a space tourist on a flight to the international space station in 2011. The space tourism business has, according to the results of a study presented at the conference, attracted over 1.2 billion dollars in investment, and grown its revenues from $175 million in 2006 to $268 million in 2007. That's peanuts compared to what NASA is spending on the Space Station or its Constellation project aimed at returning to the Moon, but it's real money and, unlike NASA's budget, it's growing.
Hotel magnate Robert Bigelow is even looking at building his own space station. A (revenue-generating) prototype recently completed its 10,000th orbit around the Earth, and Bigelow has put up $500 million toward making his dream a reality. He'll likely find customers. Indeed, the ISDC featured two wealthy individuals, Greg Olson and Anousheh Ansari, who each ponied up 20 million dollars for a Russian flight to the International Space Station, and both expressed their willingness to pay $100 million for a trip to the Moon if such were available. (Though Olson quipped, "I'd have to sell another company first.")
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel (original 2005; edition 2006)
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I thought I would never finish this book. It was definitely all about character development, and it would probably be a good book for group discussions, but I guess I just wasn't in the mood for it. Off to the thrift shop it goes.
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A wonderful story of old China, complete with so many period details that I easily got lost in See's beautiful tale of two women bound at childhood by a tradition of lifetime friendship. I felt I was an invisible spectator, drawn back in time by See's carefully crafted words. Through them, I learned what it was like to be a Chinese woman of a certain social status, and how one's status was crucial to every aspect of life. The Lao Tong friendship was one of the few ways social, equalling life, possibilities might be increased. One friendship, literally written in the stars, could have ramifications for one's family (extended family included, per Chinese cultural tradition) for generations to come. Every action, no matter how small, had to be carefully considered, given this truth and family obligation. (As if relationships aren't difficult enough by nature!)
The life lessons learned during the struggles the two unlikely friends encountered are applicable to people of all cultures. While learning about Chinese history and culture, I ...
Wow. A bit disturbing, but a great insight into the culture.
Well, she's no Amy Tan.
In turn-of-the-20th-Century rural China, two young girls become bonded for life by the laotong contract. Whatever friends, spouses, blood sisters, or mothers-in-law may pass through their lives they are sworn to remain soulmates, communicating via messages in secret "women's writing" carried between the two towns.
The blurb tries to make it sound like there's more to the novel than this, but this is really it. The paltry frame upon which numerous history and sociology lessons are hung.
The thing that bums me out about this novel is that it could have been so good. The basic premise is one that has worked countless times: two very different people with an emotional bond desperately trying to hang onto each other in a world designed to keep them apart. If the factual information on footbinding and class systems had been artfully woven into a genuine story with fully-realized characters who could have had the reflections and realizations that were important for the author to convey. Instead, there are overlong passages that clinically describe facets of Chinese culture/practices. Certain scenes seem to occur only because the author had a real-world anecdote she wanted to include. There are thinly-veiled political statements that seem inauthentic to the characters and their circumstances. Lisa See had some drums to bang, and she beat them to bits.
The foreshadowing is obvious, the main character reads like a different woman from scene to scene (here sassy, here blindly obedient, here flinty), and the "lessons" are run into the ground.
As a female Chinese-American writer, I imagine Lisa See gets compared to Amy Tan a lot. She's probably sick of it. Still, if I wrote a novel about boy wizards I'd just have to suck it up when J.K. Rowling came up, wouldn't I? Tan is poetic where See is pedantic. Even the title: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. That's a dumb title. A title for a children's book. The words are pretty and it might even sound mysterious at first, but upon reading the book one finds it is just a laundry list of the things inside. Her other titles are similarly unimaginative: Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls. Compare that to Tan's titles that obliquely reference the contemporary subject matter through the lens of Chinese myth or legend: The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Hundred Secret Senses. I would recommend any of Tan's books that I've read before this novel. I got Ready Player One-levels sick of the term "golden lilies" and reading about how people swayed about on them. Expand your capacity for imagery or GTFO.
What bothers me most of all is that nowhere on the long road to publication did anyone tell See that this novel wasn't good. It could have been salvaged.
I had put off reading any of Lisa See's books for a long time. I love reading about the Chinese culture but did not like any of Amy Tan's books. But I finally gave in and started reading Snow Flower. I was immediately grabbed by the beautiful writing. I learned quite a bit from this book -- foot binding, nu shu, laotongs, sworn sisters, etc. I loved it and now can't wait to read "Shanghai Girls" and "China Doll".
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0812968069, Paperback)In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
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In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchieves using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart.… (more)
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Small Maia Spider[edit]
|Maia Spider, Small
|Small Outsider (Maia Demon)
|Hit Dice:
|1d8 (4 hp)
|30 ft. (6 squares), climb 20 ft.
|Armor Class:
|14 (+1 size, +3 Dex),, touch 14, flat-footed 11
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Bite +4 melee (1d4–2 plus poison)
|Full Attack:
|Bite +4 melee (1d4–2 plus poison)
|5 ft./5 ft.
|Special Attacks:
|Poison, web
|Special Qualities:
|Darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., vermin traits
|Fort +2, Ref +3, Will +0
|Str 7, Dex 17, Con 10, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 2
|Climb +11, Hide +11*, Jump –2*, Spot +4*
|Weapon FinesseB
|Temperate forests
|Colony (2–5) or swarm (6–11)
|Challenge Rating:
|Always Chaotic Evil
|Level Adjustment:
- REDIRECT Template:Background Information (LotR Supplement)Spiders This Page] for more information.
All Maiar Spiders are aggressive predators that use their poisonous bites to subdue or kill prey.
Maiar Spiders come in two general types: hunters and web-spinners. Hunters rove about, while web-spinners usually attempt to trap prey. Hunting spiders can spin webs to use as lairs, but cannot use their webs as weapons the way web-spinners can. A hunting spider has a base land speed 10 feet faster than the figures given in the statistics blocks.
Poison (Ex): A Maia spider has a poisonous bite. The details vary by the spider's size, as shown on the table below. The save DCs are Consitution-based. The indicated damage is initial and secondary damage.
|Fort DC
|1d3 Str
Web (Ex): Both types of Maiar Spiders often wait in their webs or in trees, then lower themselves silently on silk strands and leap onto prey passing beneath. A single strand is strong enough to support the spider and one creature of the same size. Web-spinners can throw a web eight times per day. This is similar to an attack with a net but has a maximum range of 50 feet, with a range increment of 10 feet, and is effective against targets up to one size category larger than the spider. An entangled creature can escape with a successful Escape Artist check or burst it with a Strength check. Both are standard actions whose DCs are given in the table below. The check DCs are Consitution-based, and the Strength check DC includes a +4 racial bonus.
Web-spinners often create sheets of sticky webbing from 5 to 60 feet square, depending on the size of the spider. They usually position these sheets to snare flying creatures but can also try to trap prey on the ground. Approaching creatures must succeed on a DC 20 Spot check to notice a web; otherwise they stumble into it and become trapped as though by a successful web attack. Attempts to escape or burst the webbing gain a +5 bonus if the trapped creature has something to walk on or grab while pulling free. Each 5-foot section has the hit points given on the table, and sheet webs have damage reduction 5/—.
A Maia spider can move across its own web at its climb speed and can pinpoint the location of any creature touching its web.
|Escape Artist DC
|Break DC
|Hit Points
Tremorsense (Ex): A Maia spider can detect and pinpoint any creature or object within 60 feet in contact with the ground, or within any range in contact with the spider's webs.
Skills: Maiar Spiders have a +4 racial bonus on Hide and Spot checks and a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks. A Maia spider can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks, even if rushed or threatened. Maiar Spiders use either their Strength or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher. *Hunting spiders have a +10 racial bonus on Jump checks and a +8 racial bonus on Spot checks. Web-spinning spiders have a +8 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks when using their webs.
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Asheville Becomes Hot Vacation Destination For Gay And Lesbian Travelers
ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gay and lesbian visitors to Asheville, North Carolina, often decide to relocate after the first visit. Why? According to www.RomanticAsheville.com, the beautiful mountain town is eclectic, artsy and very diverse with so many things to do. Within a few blocks, visitors can dance with hippies at the drum circle, browse galleries for exquisite art, dine at world-class restaurants and sample 50 local craft beers. All of this could be after a day of seeing waterfalls. Home to famous Biltmore House, Asheville is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains.
RomanticAsheville.com Travel Guide, a 600-page online free resource with 2,000+ photographs, gives plenty of "insider" tips. Here are their top ten favorite outings for gay and lesbian visitors to Asheville:
- Restaurants: The farm-to-table craze is really cooking with dozens of locally-owned restaurants downtown that create menus with seasonal bounty from North Carolina farms. After dinner, stop by French Broad Chocolate Lounge for dessert.
- City B&B or Mountain Cabin: There are many gay/lesbian-owned or friendly grand bed and breakfast inns and secluded cabin vacation rentals. So all can relax and be themselves with other guests.
- Drinks: From beer to wine to coffee, there's no chance of getting thirsty. Since Asheville is Beer City USA, there are many pubs downtown (including ten breweries). Smokey Tavern is a friendly gay bar.
- Shopping: Downtown Asheville has more than 200 locally-owned stores. Don't miss Malaprops, "Best Bookstore in the Southeast." Walk to 30 galleries in downtown or explore nearby River Arts District studios.
- Biltmore Estate: After touring America's Downton Abbey, enjoy grand gardens, restaurants, shops, winery tastings and the equestrian center with horseback riding.
- Live Music & Theatre: Listen and dance to jazz and blues at Tressa's. For a variety of music headliners, check out The Orange Peel. This summer, don't miss Brevard Music Festival or Folkmoot. And enjoy mobile comedy on the zany LaZoom Bus Tours.
- Antiques: The Biltmore Village area has a great variety of antique stores and malls, including Antique Tobacco Barn. Brunk Auctions are highly recommended for collectors.
- Mountain Exploration: Choose from hundreds of hiking trails, many to waterfalls and mountaintop views. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the most scenic drives in the country. Zip line on canopy tours or go whitewater rafting in the Great Smoky Mountains.
- Dance Bars: The premier nightclub for dancing is Scandals at Grove House in downtown. Two other gay clubs, Club Hairspray and O.Henry's, are nearby.
- Festivals: Street festivals abound, and the biggest is Bele Chere on July 26-28, 2013. The local pride group has a Gay 5K & Rainbow Romp on July 13 and the big Blue Ridge Pride Celebration downtown on October 5.
For more information, go to the Asheville LGBT Visitors Guide at http://www.romanticasheville.com/gayandlesbian.html.
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