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                             There and back again

Friday was an absolutely beautiful day to drive—clear blue skies as far as
the eye could see. Bunny and I checked out of the hotel at 11:00 AM and
started the drive to WNC Farmers Market (Western North Carolina Farmers
Market) [1] to pick up some fresh produce before driving home. The WNC
Farmers Market is right off I-26 so it wasn't like we were going that far out
of our way.

Only the traffic to the WNC Farmers Market was slow. Man, it took us much
longer to get there than expected, and then we had to muck about with finding
an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) because some of the farmers at the WNC
Farmers Market don't accept plastic. So there was some time lost there. Soon
after that, we started the drive home.

The first 19 miles took us well over an hour to drive. For some reason we
never were keen to, half of I-26 Eastbound was blocked off between Asheville
[2] and Hendersonville [3]. It was a portent of things to come.

Our fantastic time of 11½ hours to Brevard [4] was countered by our worst
time of 13½ hours from Brevard. Traffic along I-26 was horrendous as much as
the weather was wonderful. But we made it back and now we recuperate from our
vacation.

[1] https://www.ncagr.gov/markets/facilities/markets/asheville/
[2] https://www.asheville.com/
[3] https://www.hendersonvillenc.gov/
[4] https://www.cityofbrevard.com/

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