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Celeb and I were in Asheville, NC last week so we decided to drop by Biltmore House, America’s Largest Home.

Biltmore House was quite impressive. Here’s a few interesting facts:
–The inside of the house is over 4 acres.
–There are 65 bedrooms and 41 bathrooms.
–The estate is over 6000 acres.
–The house had an indoor swimming pool illuminated with underwater electric lights.
–In addition to being able to tour the house you can visit the onsite winery, equestrian center, petting zoo, their own farm, and take a segway tour, plus more.

We weren’t able to take pictures inside the house but here are a few pictures from the property.

There’s a little place just south of town called Granny Beas. It’s a really tiny shop that sells VHS, DVDs, CDs, and video games of all types. That’s all it is. Thousands of these things on shelves in a little tiny building. You can buy old school nintendo games there as well.

Just down the road is an IGA store, which is a small independent grocery story.

Both of these are in a pretty rural area. They’re along a highway, though not a major one at all, and really just serve the rural folks who live out that way. Granny Beas does draw people in from further, but certainly not the grocery store.

Recently, the grocery store closed. I can only presume because there just wasn’t enough business in the area to support it.

Not soon after, Granny Beas moved into the grocery store building, giving is much much more space for all of the stuff they sell.

And, in recent days, someone has taken the old Granny Beas store and turned it into a small grocery store.

So, we’re basically right back to where we started, except there’s a bigger selection of movies and a smaller selection of meat.