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About 18 years ago I was wearing an Illini hat on the Acropolis walking toward the Parthenon in Athens. I passed by an elderly couple and got an "I-L-L". Totally caught me off guard and it took me a second to respond with "I-N-I".

Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation. No, I haven't been to either of those places. Although with both being within 20 minutes of Asheville I'm sure there is some tourism spill over. I would suspect there are a lot of AirBnB and VRBO locations in all those surrounding areas. I'll...

Never lived there but have visited many times having lived in Raleigh for 20+ years. Love doing long weekends there but would never live there. It’s become too trendy/touristy over the years. If you want mountain, look to Boone. Kind of what Asheville was like 10 years ago or so. Plus, App...

You're right about Sud's. I don't think D.P Dough is right - I guess that could have been the name before or after I was there. For some reason I'm thinking it was Poorboys. What is really sad is that I lived across Locust from that strip mall and ate there multiple times a week my Senior...

Some of you guys who are on campus now probably never heard of some of these places, but here goes.... BARS: 1. Flannigan's / Gully's 2. Clybourne 3. The Office 4. Bub's 5. Murphy's 6. White Horse......I miss wing night 7. High Dive 8. R&Rs 9. Illini Inn 10. Anywhere but Kam's and...