{"id":3736,"date":"2015-06-11T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:52:30","slug":"asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/asheville\/","title":{"rendered":"Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two nights and lots of fun in Asheville, North Carolina, while visiting our friends, Sue and Chris, and their three dogs, one cat, and six chickens. (Sadly, two chickens were nabbed by a raccoon on our second night, so now there are four, in a newly reinforced coop.)<\/p>\n

Asheville has a lot to recommend it and we enjoyed a great tour with Chris while Sue was at work. Naturally, some of my best memories are dominated by food. Had some spectacular barbecue at 12 Bones<\/a>, which is apparently President Obama’s top choice in town. Then, on our way out, we stopped for breakfast at Biscuit Head<\/a>, which is in the running for my favorite breakfast restaurant in the world.<\/p>\n

Below are an assortment of phone shots from our Asheville stint.<\/p>\n

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Carrier Park with an awesome play structure reminiscent of one of our favorites in Saint Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Griffin throwing a ball with Streak and Ruff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beautiful optical effect on the shadow of a leaf floating in a brook. (What causes this?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maggie on the grounds of the Biltmore Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Posed group at Biltmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Stocco Roys (and Quaker) at Biltmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Awesome breakfast at Biscuit Head (Maggie had the biscuit with sausage patty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brisket biscuit at Biscuit Head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another happy customer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two nights and lots of fun in Asheville, North Carolina, while visiting our friends, Sue and Chris, and their three dogs, one cat, and six chickens. (Sadly, two chickens were nabbed by a raccoon on our second night, so now there are four, in a newly reinforced coop.) Asheville has a lot to recommend it … Continue reading Asheville<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,54,74],"tags":[11,79,81,51,13],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-griffin","category-maggie","category-photo","category-travel","tag-food","tag-griffin","tag-maggie","tag-pictures","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image2.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/7547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}