Boone Mountain Cabin: Fall 2012

Boone Mountain Cabin: Fall 2012

I’ve went to many different places during my time. L.A. in 2011, Philippines in 2004 and 2005, Banff in 2012 and many more. But my first trip to N.C. in late fall of 2013 made me more ecstatic than any other trips before and after. The trip to Boone, North Carolina. \(^.^)/

Sometime in October, our Fall Break has started from my “ghetto” school. When the break started, all I could think was about Boone, because all I heard from my parents were either Boone or NC. In the early morning, we put our stuff in out bag and left at about 4 am. One day is all it takes to go to North Carolina from Orlando, Florida. We head past through Georgia, South Carolina, then North Carolina! Just 14 hrs to get to Boone. But as soon as we got there, there was heavy fog covering most of the town. It was like some thousand feet above sea level, so yeah, it freaked us out. It’s not common in Florida to have such heavy fog. Somewhere in my 5th year of high school, there was a little heavy fog, but you can still see a car from about a mile away. Boone was a different story. It was so heavy, you see the back of another persons’ car. We had spend about an hour just to find the building for the keys to the cabin we’re supposed to stay in. As we got the keys, we drove up a dirt pathway and made it to our cabin and on the site was my aunt Cathy and uncle Ray. Along with their son and daughter, Raynard and Caylee. We unlocked the doors and saw a magnificent sight. Clean wooden floors, beautiful decorations, and lots of space. All of use brought our stuff in and picked rooms. Mine was actually the “man cave” even though not much sports related items were there. All there was is a pool table and a TV. That’s it. But in after all of a days trip, I didn’t care if I slept in the couch. I just went into a deep sleep when I lay down. Until, my ate Sheena, Shannen, Caylee, and Chelsea woke me up as they arrived somewhere at 11pm. They turned on the lights in the room and my eyes just opened wide open. They greeted me and I welcomed them, showed the available rooms and went back to sleep.

The next morning, I woke up early at 7. Other friends of ours arrived somewhere at 5am. I wondered if we were gonna go somewhere, so I asked my family. They said that we won’t go anywhere and that we’ll go tomorrow with everyone else. Later, I saw the ones who arrived at 5am wake up. At that time, my friend Sam, woke up too. It was somewhere in the afternoon. We had chats about random stuff and went outside in the nice cool weather. Perfect 60*F and such a beautiful environment! We saw some old styled bikes and took it out for a spin. Sam’s bike was not as good as mine. It had bad brakes and had an wore down grip. When it was near nighttime, we gathered wood for a bonfire. We only roasted hotdogs from what I can remember… It was 2 years ago, so yeah. After that, though, I went back to the man cave to watch TV and play billiards with friends. I barely have experience from billiards because my family doesn’t have a pool table. Usually, I’d chip the balls out the table and just get the ball, put it back and try again. It was a nice delightful game. I was getting tired and I wanted to watch TV. All I can remember was Spongebob and a football game. I think it was Notre Dame vs Penn State…I don’t know. But it was getting late and everyone was gonna go to sleep to so I turned off the TV, let my friends go to bed, and I made myself go to sleep. Zzzzz…..

For the next few days, we went to the Linville Caverns, where we saw limestone stalactites and stalagmites which were formed for over thousands of years. We hiked to the Linville Falls, where me and Shannen were chasing Caylee, in which I almost lost my iPod. We visited Grandfather Mountain, but we only went to the Mile High Bridge because it was getting late. We went to a corn maze near Boone, which had 3 different corn mazes. When we would get hungry, we’d eat at this Chinese buffet. What was in your Chinese buffet, was in ours, too… so yeah. Not much differences. We left early because we were gonna see the Biltmore Estates in Ashville, North Carolina. What we saw was the antique and rare items of the Biltmore, like fine china pottery, Arabic rugs, British furniture and much more! As we finish with the tour of the Biltmore, we took a walk in the gardens and then headed home. When I reached home and went to bed, I had trouble sleeping because of that amazing trip. It was the first time that I stayed with my friends and family together and in a far-away state. And that’s why the trip to Boone is my most memorable.