Amre Klimchak is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. She is working on a memoir.
One summer after my parents’ divorce, when I was around 8, my dad rented an Airstream near Bryson City, North Carolina, a day’s drive from my home in Florida. This was long before tiny homes and van life were Instagram fodder. When my two sisters and I agreed to spend a couple of weeks camped out in the RV, west of Asheville in the Nantahala Forest, none of us realized we would be cut off, for the entire vacation, from cable television, which was our version of the internet.
They’d started a family in what they described as a “sweet little hippie town” in the Blue Ridge Mountains. On a crisp October morning, I awoke in Asheville at Rick and Sara’s A-frame hideaway surrounded by giant evergreens and quietude, and we prepared for a hike at Graveyard Fields. “The waterfalls are supposed to be gorgeous,” Sara said. I happily pulled out boots I’d purchased for precisely the sort of adventure I’d envisioned as I sought to reconnect to the natural world.
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