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After a fun night of about a billion trick-or-treaters - so many we ran out of candy - we have had the best day here in Swannanoa.

Have I mentioned before how much I love the day after a travel day? (Uh, yeah. About 100 times!)

The day started with two cats thinking it was time for breakfast at 5:00. (They don't have a clue about standard time.) For our breakfast, we met up with Gypsy, who is staying just a couple of miles down the road, and headed out to the Huddle House in nearby Black Mountain. Gypsy called Swannanoa home for five years, so it was great to see this area through the eyes of a former local. We even drove up in the hills to see her former homestead. It's a gorgeous place with amazing views. It was a special treat to see it. This is the fourth time we've seen Gypsy in less than a year. We seem to be traveling in similar "orbits" with her, and it's always fun to see her. We hope she enjoys her three weeks in this beautiful spot she calls home.

It's hard to believe that after our everything-you-can-serve-for-breakfast-in-the-south-heaped-on-a-plate at Huddle House we could even think about food, but Paul planned ahead and got a pot of chili going for later. With the crockpot simmering and absolutely nothing on our agenda, I decided to tackle our other blog.

Bullwinkle's Travels is woefully out of date. We've just been so busy it's been hard to keep up. I am long overdue for entries about Charleston, Savannah and Hilton Head. Heck, I realized I never wrote a thing about our stay in Denver back in August. Geez!

It's amazing how effortlessly words jump on the screen on this blog. Seems I'm never at a loss for words here. But, that other blog is more work. There are pictures and descriptions and the energy it takes to make it interesting. And, now we have readers asking us to tell them about our Savannah-in-one-day excursion. If I could only manage to capture it all on that damn blog!

With our faithful readers in mind, I locked myself in the bedroom and made a declaration that I wouldn't come out until the other blog was caught up. I sorted through pictures and information and managed to publish a post about our day in Charleston. That took two hours! Then, I decided to rant about it over here. That took about 10 minutes. (See how this works?) Now it's cocktail hour. So, it's time to bust out of this little bedroom and prepare to have some very tasty chili. Our tales of Hilton Head and Savannah will be saved for another day.

My lesson here is to write the posts on the day of, or day after at the latest. With an adventure fresh in our memory, the writing is much easier and posts come together much faster. Yes, I'll give that a shot. Maybe tomorrow.