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Subtitle: On Sunday March 2, 2014, we spent the day walking around downtown Asheville.  <br/><br/>
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Other pages from the Ashville trip:
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<li>Downtown</li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=AshevilleParade">Mardi Gras Parade</a></li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=GreyEagle">Concert</a> (Steve Rothery, Billy Cardine, Paul Vo)</li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=BRPW">The Blue Ridge Parkway</a> on the drive home</li>
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001-DSC_6329: A free bike repair station with a pump and tools.  As &quot;the kids&quot; might ask, &quot;How cool is that?&quot; I would answer, &quot;Quite a bit cool.&quot;  Asheville's just that kind of place.  This was near the Grey Eagle which is where we saw the concert later that night.
002-DSC_6333: Some statues of dancers in town.
003-DSC_6336: Another sculture but a little bit more abstract.
004-DSC_6338: A city street, with some street musicans in the distance (next to the man in the blue sweatshirt).
005-DSC_6339: The Vance monument.
006-DSC_6341: The Asheville Art Musuem, which has a cool murual on the building.
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009-DSC_6345: Hee Haw!  Buckaroo Frank rides a pig. <a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/images/Photos/Seattle/frank-pig.jpg">Again</a>.  Though it's <a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/images/Photos/frank-saddle.png">not always</a> a pig he rides.
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011-DSC_6357: A statue of a girl drinking from a fountain.  I had seen that statue when reading about Asheville and wanted to find it, though I had no idea where in town it was.  I managed to find it!
012-DSC_6359: The statue girl isn't the only one who can pose to drink water.  Note that I'm holding <i>my</i> pony tail to keep it out of the pretend water too.
013-DSC_6361: Turns out I'll be waiting in line behind her a <i>long</i> time.
014-DSC_6362: Amber with the Vance Monument in the background (looks like it's coming out of her bag).
015-DSC_6363: While sitting on the ledge where Amber was in the previous picture, there was a group that walked up to the statue.  I liked how the girls appear to be waiting for the statue-girl, just like I was doing a few pictures earlier.
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017-DSC_6365: We had lunch in Pack's Tavern.  The food was quite good.
017-DSC_6382: An old style car was parked in front of Pack's Tavern.  Amber pointed out how the &quot;Expired&quot; sign on the parking meter seemed to be a commentary on the car too.
017-DSC_6383: It carried some sort of beer barrel.  Not sure if it was real.
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020-DSC_6369: A guy sat on the top of the steps of the amphitheater and he had a ram's horn.  It was kind of neat.
021-DSC_6370: Amber uses her phone to scan a curious old box.
022-DSC_6371: Cool monument by a city building.
023-DSC_6372: A new city building with mountains in the background.
024-DSC_6373: I'm assuming this group was from the Society for Creative Anacronism (SCA), or some similar sword fighting group.
025-DSC_6374: &quot;<i>Block</i>&quot;
026-DSC_6375: &quot;<i>Ha ha!  I kill you!</i>&quot;
027-DSC_6376: &quot;<i>Now I kill you too!</i>&quot; &quot;<i>Huh, what?  No fair!</i>&quot;
028-DSC_6377: While this battle was going on, the guy in the amphitheater was blowing the ram's horn.  Bawoooo, bawoooooooo!  It sounded like a mix of a Rosh Hashanna service and The Lord of the Rings.  I was going to record a video of the fake fighting with the horn of battle in the background but he stopped right when I got there, because some guy was talking to him.  I waited, but no more battle horns.  Eventually the guy left, and Horatio Hornblower left too.  Missed my chance, damn.  But it was cool.
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034-DSC_6387: There was an old guy working on a jigsaw puzzle.  I don't know, it was kind of cool to see.
035-DSC_6390: A bus-restaurant.
036-DSC_6391: We went to a co-op.  And while waiting there, I noticed a guy in line that looked like old-testament god, complete with the white hair, white beard, and even sandals.  He was wearing jeans and I was disappointed to discover that he drove away in a beat-up old car rather than a chariot of clouds.  Oh well.
037-DSC_6392: I saw this tree, thought it looked cool, but wasn't sure if I should bother taking a picture of it, since there was really no story to go along with it.  While I was looking at it, a guy walked by and told me that that was a peach tree and in fact the first tree he noticed when he first got to Asheville, and often has eaten peaches from it.  He had high praises for the tree.  I figured that made it worth taking a picture.  Asheville just seems like that sort of place, where when you are looking for a story about something, someone will walk up to you and tell you a story you're looking for.
038-DSC_6393:  I liked the &quot;Laugh&quot; &quot;Love&quot; and &quot;Hope&quot; on the buidling.
039-DSC_6394: Cool looing graffiti.
040-DSC_6395: A stairway going down to a parking lot where a building used to be.
040a-building_Panorama: A picture of the shape of the torn down building on the wall fo an adjacent one, made from a set of 9 pictures merged together.
041-DSC_6411: A bit of modern art in front of a building.
042-DSC_6452: I liked the silhouette of the telephone poles, wires and light with the mountain scenery in the distance.
043-DSC_6453: I liked the image of the barbed wire on the fence in front of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background.