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Festival tents and a grassy field beneath West Virginia mountains at sunset.

DomesticJuly 25, 2026

From West Virginia to Grandfather Mountain: Discovering the Highland Games

Highland Games are not the most obvious choice for a family with no Scottish ancestry.

Featured image from our summer stay in North Carolina's High Country.

North CarolinaAugust 24, 2025

A Few Weeks in North Carolina’s High Country – Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock and West Jefferson

A longer High Country stay gave us time to settle into the mountains instead of rushing through them. Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, and West Jefferson all led up to a Rough Ridge proposal we will never quite top.