Chimney Rock and Lake Lure from The Top

This is one landscape which will stay with me through my living years. Awesome views looking right down on to the outcrop of Chimney Rock itself, and Lake Lure stretching away. Not to mention the forest and mountains. Almost heaven.

Photos, Words and Memories from 2 trips and 3 months in the USA. Based mainly near Asheville in North Carolina.

I'm the Firestarter

Lake Lure looked really beautiful. Lots of lakeside activities and fun. Forget Dirty Dancing though. What pleased me most was finding out it was one of the locations for the film Firestarter with a very young but post ET Drew Barrymore. Based on the Stephen King book about a girl with pyrokinetic abilities hunted down by secretive units with the American government. Also has a soundtrack by my most favourite group, Tangerine Dream. So in that nerdish way my inner fan had been delighted to see a beautiful place which related to fiction I read when I was growing up and music I listened to. Nice one.

Photos, Words and Memories from 2 trips and 3 months in the USA. Based mainly near Asheville in North Carolina.

Burger Time at Lake Lure

Mistiness clung to the mountains and hunger dogged our tummies, so a quick review of the options at Lake Lure, and we ended up at the Beachside Grill. Burger and Fries it was. Delicious. I was informed this lake was the setting for the original Dirty Dancing film. I've never seen, even though I grew up in the 80s. Lake Lure had even more siginificance for me from another film.

Photos, Words and Memories from 2 trips and 3 months in the USA. Based mainly near Asheville in North Carolina.