Randy’s Travels to Hanoi

Living in a place like Asheville you get used to seeing some of the same familiar faces around town. You recognize people at the grocery store or restaurants and that helps to give Asheville a small town feel. Asheville is also home to a few celebrities and while I make it a point to be polite and smile and nod when I see them, I don’t try to speak to them or intrude into their day out of respect or their privacy. That is until today.

As a got on the flight this afternoon I saw Andie McDowell was taking the same hop to Atlanta. Since I am doing this blog I decided to break my own rule of being polite and ask for a quick photograph to add to the site.

We talked a few moments on the plane, I told her that I was going to Vietnam for work, she was going to Paris for work. She is a very nice, personable lady who was telling me stories of some of her friends who had been hiking in Vietnam. Just chit-chat, but I appreciate her taking time to talk while on the plane. Once we landed in Atlanta I asked a Delta employee to take the photo above. The folks in the airport were excited to see and meet Andie, I was happy to the photo, we said good-bye and then I went in search of the Crown Room.

People jet off to different parts of the world all the time but it seemed interesting to have start my trip by talking with a fellow resident of “little ‘ol Asheville” as she goes to Europe and I go to Asia.

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