This is a blog of my five-week exploration of culinary experiences in North Carolina. Baaswell Sheep is accompanying me and offering his own commentary on the trip, although he refuses to go into any place that serves lamb chops.
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The end is near now as we check out of the Blue Ridge Inn and make our way back home. It's been quite an adventure, and it will be strange not to post any more blog posts for a while, but that's the way life goes. When we decide to do another adventure at some point in the future, we'll likely start another blog.
My companion finally remembered to snap pictures of breakfast at the Blue Ridge Inn. It always starts with vanilla yogurt with fruit, plus the muffin de jour. After that course is the main course, which is some kind of egg based dish with more bread. The food is always good, but filling, and it might be nice to have a little less bread and a little more fruit. I include one last picture of Blue the cat as we said goodbye to him this morning.
So, my companion and I wanted to end this journey on a bang rather than a fizz, so we came down to Jasper and had our final meal of the trip at The Old Mulehouse, which according to my companion has a wonderful beer battered fish and chips. I wouldn't know about the fish (I'm a vegetarian, in case you haven't figured that out already), but the chips were really, really good, and he said the fish was great as usual. He got a locally brewed root beer to go with the meal, which was quite good, even if it is a little pricy compared to a typical fountain drink.
Well, that's it for this culinary adventure. Thank you for following along with us, and hopefully you'll join us for our next big adventure, details to be determined in the hopefully not too distant future.
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