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I don’t do much politicking anymore, but as you can tell from my resume, I used to be very political (also, none as my single days, LOL).  I certainly will not be standing on my soap box, but wanted to pass along this news tidbit.

While I worked at the Ky. Republican Party, Steve Robertson was the political director. Steve taught me a lot, but mostly it wasn’t about politics, and a lot of it I didn’t realized till I aged a bit more.

This weekend, after serving as the director of the Governor’s Office for Local Development (GOLD), Steve was elected chairman of the Republican Party. This is awing considering he isn’t much older than me, but certainly deserving, and I think he can contribute a lot to the party, and maybe even to the Governor’s re-election.

Hopefully, Steve will use his position to improve blogging and web usage by Republicans in this state, as the Dems and specifically Mark Nickolas, have become the de facto news source for politics, sad though it is (in fact, the Herald Leader didn’t even post a full article about yesterday’s election, guess it wasn’t rancorous enough to be “newsworthy”).

When I started blogging, I thought I could put all personal stuff on MySpace, and tech/work stuff, here. But guess this blurs the line, although it is mostly personal.
My fourth wedding anniversary is coming up on June 14 and I was looking back at some photos from the wedding and the honeymoon. My wife, Stacy, and I went to Hilton Head Island (a wonderful place if you have never been). Along the way we got off Interstate 26 onto US 74 outside Hendersonville, NC, headed toward Chimney Rock Park. We stopped in this little town that had a little creek running along the main street, behind all the shops and you could go down and walk along the river. The scenery was beautiful, and while there, I walked across the rocks into the river to take some pictures. Stacy kept the camera, and as luck had it one of the rocks was slippery and I fell in (only a little bit). All caught on camera.

Stacy has lost 90 lbs. since this photo was taken (wish I had lost that much!)

This is one of my wife’s favorite honeymoon memories, and a funny story (which I don’t tell well), but at the time we didn’t realize what a strong memory it would be, so we never made note of the where we were, or the town’s name.

Since I was looking at the photos, and we are again planning a trip to HHI, I thought I would try to find where this was. Luckily, Stacy remembered that we were headed to Chimney Rock, so thanks to the miracle of Google Maps, I mapped Chimney Rock, and put it on “hybrid” and followed the creek all up and down US 74. Finally I looked really closely at where it seemed to come together and the road went over, and we googled the location and found out there is a town of Chimney Rock Village. We found this site, and it matched our pics, so we knew we found it.

So I guess in the end this is a tech-y story, cause in the olden days before Google, we might have had to just drive around Western North Carolina wondering where we had stumbled upon this pretty little village.