Google on Main follow up

I just read on the Random Connections blog that Google is hosting an internet poll to see which city is most deserving of the new Google Fiber. You can actually vote once per day until the polling ends.  Follow this link: 

From the City of Greenville newsletter:

Saturday, March 20, 2010  

7:30 PM 

 Meet behind The Peace Center 

Google is looking for one city around the country to invest billions of dollars in order to try out experimental ultra-high speed broadband internet. Come show your support for why they should select Greenville! The event will include thousands of people with LED-powered, Google-colored glow sticks walking in "fiber" lines into Falls Park and forming the letters "Google." Helicopters and national media will be filming the event from above. Let's make Greenville shine! 


Click here to sign-up.




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Linville Gorge

Linville Gorge, called the Grand Canyon of North Carolina by some, is a rugged and remote area just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Linville, NC. There are several trails that descend into the gorge to the Linville River.  It's a truly amazing wilderness area but remember that if you make it to the river, you have to climb back out. The trails are rugged and rarely flat.  See more here and here.

Swimming Hole at the junction of Babel Trail and Linville River.

Top of Linville Falls

Linville Falls

Linvillle Falls up close.

Distance from downtown Greenville: 110 miles.

















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Top of the Hops Beer Festival

Holy cow. Are you kidding me? Greenville is actually hosting a brewfest again? Yep. I've been pushing for a Greenville Beerfest ever since the two year old Greenville Beerfest closed shop several years ago. Now I see Greenville is hosting another beerfest.  If you attend, make sure you spend time at my friend Tom's booth.

Click here for the details. Top of the Hops Beer Festival




Distance from downtown Greenville: 0 miles.



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Worley Cave

Worley Cave is a wild and relatively untouched cave located on a farm in Bluff City, TN. The owner of the cave allows exploration of the cave with a qualified guide.

Mountain Adventure Guides offers reasonable prices for qualified guides.

This isn't like Lurray Caverns. It's totally non-commercial. It is unspoiled and very deep.  You will get very dirty, rip your clothes, climb, slide and be expected to walk through an underground river to exit the cave.  You will also have a blast.


Distance from downtown Greenville: 161 miles.






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God's Plan

Seems to be a lot of proselytizing on Main Street lately.  From street preachers screaming hellfire and damnation to wide-eyed young people wanting a "moment of my time." Makes for good street theatre I suppose. Recently I was checking my e-mail in front of Fall's Park when a white van came screeching up beside me. Next thing I knew I was surrounded by several twenty-somethings holding religious tracts who were all piling into the van like they'd just pulled a bank job.

For some reason, I doubt the claim on the front of this Hummer.

St. Francis Mud Run

I got word back that registration is already closed for Art Loeb extreme hike I mentioned in the last post, but this sounds like a good time.

Join us for the 6th Annual St. Francis Mud Run on 

Saturday, May 1, 2010!  

Extreme Hike for the Cure

I've mentioned a couple times previously one of my favorite trails, The Art Loeb.


Well this sounds kinda cool.  Extreme Hike for the Cure

WHO:	All adventure and outdoor enthusiast
WHAT:	In just one amazing day, you will hike the 30.1 miles of the famed art Loeb Trail in Pisgah National Forest while you help raise money towards a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF)—this country’s most fatal genetic disease among children and young adults.
WHEN:	Friday, April 23—Sunday, April 25, 2010

	WHERE:	Art Loeb Trail Pisgah National Forest Brevard, North Carolina
	WHY:	Through your participation in Extreme Hike for a Cure, you’ll experience adventure, accomplish a once in a lifetime goal, make new friends and add tomorrows to the lives of thousands of CF patients.

For more information or sponsorship opportunities contact Dede Brand at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at 704.321.7852 or dbrand@cff.org For more information on CF or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, visit www.cff.org.

Disk (Frisbee) Golf Courses

Recently, one of my sons and I were trying to remember where all the good disk golf course are around here. These are the only ones we could remember.

Timmons Park - This a good one although it was recently re-routed and is a bit confusing toward the end.

Simpsonville City Park

Holmes Park

Gower Estates Park

Here are a couple more I found on-line that I'm not familiar with.

Century Park

Foothills DGC

I'd love for people to chime in and offer others they know of, both in Greenville County and in the surrounding counties.

Update: Hat tip to Otis for the following resource. Upstate Disc Golf Courses

Mojitos Bar and Lounge

My wife and I had a very pleasant lunch at this West End restaurant recently.  The place is owned by a Cuban entrepreneur who moved from Miami to open a business in Greenville.  I'm no expert on Cuban food, but I can personally vouch for their Cuban sandwich. 

A little more detail is given here and here.

Distance from downtown Greenville: 0 miles.



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Fernwood Nature Trail

The parks were packed last weekend with the spring weather. If you head down to Cleveland Park in the near future, be sure to take a stroll on the Fernwood Nature. The Sierra Club spent Saturday morning cleaning it up and adding mulch. 


Distance from downtown Greenville: 0 miles.



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