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The Andon-Reid Blog
Nobody would accuse me of being a great driver. I'm more slow and cautious than fast and thrilling. For that reason, despite loving all things automotive, I have always resisted the urge to treat myself to a fancy sports car or motorbike.… Read more
Not many people know that Andrea misspent a bit of her youth becoming the queen of Tetris. In fact she is still a dab hand and can score in the millions if she puts her mind to it. This may not seem too relevant for her role as innkeeper … Read more
In April I wrote about Bill Kaman, a fine Texan musician who had made a return visit to the Andon-Reid Inn. Well it appears that the muses must have been talking to one another as they have been inspiring more artists to visit us.
We recently e… Read more
We are starting to get some fabulous spring weather in Western North Carolina. Warm sunny days and cool starry evenings are interspersed with the occasional light shower, encouraging Mother Nature to wake up and do her thing. As a result … Read more
Buddy Holly, ZZ Top, Roy Orbison, Janis Joplin, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings..... The list of illustrious musicians from Texas is a long one. We were fortunate, therefore, to have a return visit to the Andon-Reid Inn from Austin… Read more
The Magnolia Suite has always been the Andon-Reid Inn's "southern belle". It is one of our largest rooms and has also proved to be the most enduringly popular. Given its light and airy full-length glassed-in porch, its large and comfortab… Read more
The weather has finally started to turn in the North Carolina mountains. Temperatures in the evenings are getting decidedly chilly. The leaves are gone, which makes the hills less colorful. However this does mean we now enjoy more o… Read more
By all measures this has been an unusual fall leaf-peeping season. The warm dry summer has affected the usually predictable progression of fall colors which normally starts in the high peaks and descends to the valleys. Instead this year … Read more
Back in June I wrote about our unexpected visitors, a pair of Carolina chickadees who had made their nest and were raising a brood of noisy chicks in what we thought was an ornamental bird box. We had named them Chuck and Chiquita a… Read more
I have to admit to a guilty pleasure. I am a huge fan of "world music" i.e. the folk and popular music from other countries and cultures. My vinyl, CD and MP3 collections are crammed with compelling Burundi rhythms, Brazilian bossa nova, Cuban … Read more