Sue and I took a day trip up to Blowing Rock the other day. It was a beautiful, sunny and not too warm day for a road trip, and we hadn’t been to Blowing Rock in years, so it seemed like a good place to go and catch some fresh air and sunshine. Everything looks so fresh and clean when you’re several thousand feet above everything else.
The views are spectacular, 3,000 feet up with a stiff wind
blowing all year long. At times the gusts can be over 150 miles per hour. Hang
on to your hats! The cause of the stiff winds is the sheer when the wind hits
the side of the mountain and causes a severe updraft.
At times, during the winter months, you can actually watch the snow “falling” upward with the wind. This is no optical illusion, as with the Empire State Building, where the refraction of the sun’s rays can make it appear that the rain is falling upwards. That phenomenon is just a mirror like reflection of the reality. At Blowing Rock it is the reality.
At times, during the winter months, you can actually watch the snow “falling” upward with the wind. This is no optical illusion, as with the Empire State Building, where the refraction of the sun’s rays can make it appear that the rain is falling upwards. That phenomenon is just a mirror like reflection of the reality. At Blowing Rock it is the reality.
Of course, the best part of any road trip is the people, and
pets, you meet along the way. This fellow, Gus, was waiting in the car outside
of the chicken place in eager anticipation of a wing or two.
