…Until you’ve sold the house you’re currently building!

If you’re keeping up, you’ll know that we’re (somewhat) actively looking for what the next project will be. If you’re feeling lost, you can read about What’s Next and The Compound. What this really consists of going hiking every Saturday on random pieces of land followed by lunch in Blue Ridge (or Chik Fil A even though that is against #shoplocal). Usually, we find nice trees, an interesting view, and lots of thorns.

This week, with our special guest hiker, Alyssa Sista, we started out looking at some land that we saw before. I showed her where a house could go, some cool rocks, and then she ditched me while I went traipsing through the rocks and briar bushes. The girls were ready to go, but I insisted that we continue on and see if we could find anything else, so we decided to check out a 10 acre tract that’s been on the market for a while but that we’ve never looked at. After trekking/crawling/bouldering up a hill, over rocks, past some bears (I didn’t see them, but I know they were there), around the rattlesnake pit (they were sleeping underground), we came to the top of the waterfall we’d been following.

The stream went downhill for about 1000′ back to the road. It was steeper and wider towards the top, but was pretty impressive the whole way down.

Rocky and Alyssa wanted to pitch a tent and move in.