I go to the mountains on my days off

In the last three weeks that I've been working two jobs, I've had a total of two days off: two Sundays in a row. I would have had this coming WHOLE weekend off (glorious!), but I agreed to cover early morning, eight hour shifts for someone both Saturday and Sunday because, well, I need the money more than I need two whole days to drive around.

But those two days that I've had, I've gone to the mountains. Now that sounds glorious to me. That I can just go to the mountains, which are 30 minutes away, on my day off. Glorious, I say.

I told you (and showed you) my first trip up Highway 176. Well, last Sunday I went back to Pearson's Falls that I hadn't stayed and paid for the week before. Oh, and I drove up a mountain on the way. I'm sleepy and can't go into it all right now--and I'm hoping to actually write about it on paper first. But, here are some more pictures of day-off mountain life. This is Pearson's Falls:

Meanwhile, here's the actual "city view"' from my apartment. This is the view to the South: the main post office and the roof of the printing business next door.

Then this is facing east, toward Church St, and I've already shown you this Methodist church before. The street running along toward it is Henry. Then there's the gas station where I've never gotten gas yet.

The next is the view just north of the gas station. You can see the BB&T skyscraper (which I gaze at from bed before I fall asleep), and in front of that the Carolina Alliance Bank, and to the left of that (the long white building) is the amazing public library, and in the left bottom corner of it is Nautilus Fitness Center (of which I will be a member in a few days, or tomorrow), and then the left side of the photo gets into Downtown.

This is the view of Downtown, to my north. That parking lot that takes up the bottom is not mine; mine is in the very bottom left of the picture.

And this is what it's like to drive down my favorite stretch of W.O. Ezell Blvd (basically West Main St.) by Powell Mill Rd. The trees! The kudzu! And the trees in the median! That's the thing about Spartanburg: the medians are lovely with trees and flowers and bushes. Yes, I took this while driving.