5 nights in Asheville, North Carolina: See our favorite attractions including Biltmore Estate, Asheville downtown, and Blue Ridge
Biltmore Estates, Asheville, NC Growing up in New York City, you tend to forget there’s a much bigger world out there, just outside the 5 boroughs of the city. Until I got my driver’s license, this was the case. Sure, my family went on road trips to Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of Columbia, Long Island, and nearby New Jersey, but it wasn’t like we did that every month or so. Most of my teenage years, pre-driver’s license, I traveled within the “city that never sleeps”, using its dour, and sometimes very depressing public transportation system, the dreaded underground subway. Even though I loved growing up in the world famous New York City, there were not so positive things about the city. Those included: higher crime rates compared to other places, sometimes dangerous and usually dirty underground subways with their gigantic rats, ubiquitous and known among the locals as the unofficial city mascot, as well as the always busy and not so friendly people...