MOON HANDBOOKS NORTH CAROLINA

Want to know about windsurfing off the Outer Banks or hiking to waterfalls in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Done. Looking for details on finding the most authentic barbeque in Lexington or the best bluegrass music in Mount Airy? You'll find them in here. Big or small, mainstream or obscure, every worthwhile sight and activity in North Carolina is covered in this book.

Moon Handbooks North Carolina
2nd Edition
Mike Sigalas
ISBN 1-56691-383-7
$17.95
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Mike Sigalas's explorations of Southern Appalachia began in boyhood, when he played in the Smokies’ streams, reenacted Civil War battles with his siblings in nearby pastures, and visited the homes of his childhood heroes, Davy Crockett and Andrew Johnson, in nearby towns. Later, as a college student on Spring Break, he awoke one morning in his freezing steel-walled utility van to find himself snowed in at the Smokemont Campground. On warmer days, Mike and his wife Kristin climbed mountain peaks, hiked to the waterfalls, rafted the Nantahala, and browsed the shops of Highlands. Now a father, Mike’s achieves new kinds of feats, such as weaving through a throng of toddlers to squeeze his sons onto Thomas the Tank Engine during Dillsboro’s Day with Thomas Festival, and hiking to the top of Clingmans Dome pushing a hefty two-year-old in a stroller.
   Mike’s professional writing career began providentially in 1987, while he was working as a steamboat pilot and Jungle Cruise guide at Disneyland. An off-duty Frontierland popcorn vendor slammed into Mike’s 1970 Nova coupe in the employees’ parking lot. Mike pounded out the dent himself and used the insurance money to buy his first word processor, a $350 Amstrad. On this, he tapped out his first published articles, stories, and poems.
   Mike is the author of Moon Handbooks Charleston & Savannah, Moon Handbooks South Carolina, Moon Handbooks Coastal Carolinas, and Moon Handbooks North Carolina, and co-author of Moon Handbooks Smoky Mountains. He lives with his wife and sons in South Carolina, a few hours from the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Other travel guides authored by Mike Sigalas:
Moon Handbooks Charleston & Savannah
Moon Handbooks Coastal Carolinas
Moon Handbooks South Carolina
Moon Handbooks Smoky Mountains