Web Development and Technology Blog

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.