Blackberry Farm

Yes, finally something new. Explorer Barb has not been doing much exploreing. At least not geographically. After writing about visiting Antarctica on a French ship, a post on local attractions did not seem very exciting. Or I have just been lazy. You pick. Anyway… Blackberry Farm, 4,200 acres of sheer bliss, adjoining the Great Smoky…

Dinner by a James Beard Nominee

We don’t eat out a lot, not the two of us anyway. With friends, that’s different. Want to go to burger night, happy hour (which seems to be the fancy way to say “early bird special”), try some new place, just get together? We’re there. But even before the pandemic it wasn’t a frequent thing,…