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Due to various things, my husband and I are doing quite a bit of traveling over the next few months. Before we leave for another trip this weekend, I wanted it to blog about our car buying trip over Labor Day weekend.

Last week, we drove down to Winston-Salem to look at a new (used) car. As most people know, my husband is fixing a 1987 944 Porche. What I don’t post much of, is he also has a collector 1989 BMW 328. Together with my car, it makes up our three daily drivers. Both of the 80s vehicles are fun but when you have two daily drivers that are coming up on 30 years old, things break…a lot. It’s never anything he can’t handle (he’s rebuilt the transmission, done things to engine…hell if I know), but regardless between the 3 vehicles, there are never 2 continuously reliable cars in the household.

As you can guess, my husband is very much into cars so he knew exactly what he wanted. Unoratently, the closest vehicle was in Winston-Salem so that’s where we went. We had no issues with Flow BMW, purchased the 2015 228i (manual) and it was shipped back to our house in less than a week.

Honestly, it’s whatever he wanted. He has supported me for random things and I want to buy and I can only do the same.

All of that being said, it led to a fun road trip to North Carolina. Heck, we were almost back in Alabama!

Anyway, while down there we decided to go for a hike on the Greybeard trail. To be honest, it was one of my favorite trails to date. We got lost a couple of time and went off the beaten path, so it was about 10 miles round trip for us. We stopped at the falls, as well as the “Walkers Knob” which I thought was called “Walkers Nook”…ha.

We had never hiked the Blue Ridge Mountains before, but we are definitely hoping to get back there again.

Here are a few photos but if you ever get down to the Asheville area, I recommend it. It took us about 5.5 hours to do the entire 10 miles.