We all heard about people who’ve lived in New York all their lives but have never been to see the Statue of Liberty, and we’ll comment about how amazing that is.

But I have no room to talk.

There are interesting and unique places throughout the region that I’ve said I want to go see and yet have never done so.

When the subject comes up, we always comment, “Oh, we’ll go and see that or do that one of these days.”

But we don’t act on that statement.

This year we finally did it. We drove the few miles up the road to Sassafras Mountain to see the observation deck built on top of the mountain.

We went on Christmas Eve, an unusually beautiful day this year. It

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