A Night to Remember

Lake Powhatan (Powhatan was Pocahontas's dad)

Friday, April 28…

Another beautiful park… without any hook-ups. (Long story, Greg thought we could upgrade, but it didn’t happen.) We’re here for 3 nights, so we will need to be careful. Very few motor homes here – mostly tent campers or small rigs. We feel a bit conspicuous (to say the least) and uncomfortably ostentatious. To be honest, this is the first campground where we’ve felt a sort of passive-aggressive hostility from the managers: their attitude seems to be that this is a place for serious hikers/campers, not wimps in luxury RVs. (The campers themselves, however, are just a friendly as anywhere.)

Isis: the building 

We drove into Asheville proper in the late afternoon, giving ourselves a tour of the city and also taking care of a couple errands. Then we headed to the Isis Restaurant & Music Theatre, where we had reservations for dinner and a show by Canadian singer/songwriter James Keelaghan. Isis used to be a small movie theatre; now it houses 3 separate venues, each w/ its own musical offerings. We were in an upstairs room w/ max seating of maybe 40. We were about 10’ from Keelaghan… and he was wonderful! Very relaxed, lovely baritone, good guitarist, and he shared the stories behind the songs he sang. The food was excellent as well – the evening is definitely one of the high points our trip so far.

Keelaghan live. 😃

The venue: Stage in the back right corner. 
We were seated just about where that
table is (and there were lots more tables!)