Originally Posted by Repo Pilot

I was chasing a future wife at the time. She was a college professor who taught at Converse College, the "girls college", there. Loved the country to the west but the town was aaaah pretty quiet :-). It was also next to impossible to commute out of Spartanburg to get to the base of the airline I was working for. So I bought 10 acres and a home on Lake Wiley on the North Carolina side. We moved there and then we both commuted to work. At the time I had a C-5 Z06, a DeTomaso Mangusta and a couple of turbo-charged Harleys. I headed toward Ashville at least once a month, weather permitting, to enjoy the twisties and of course Tail of the dragon.

Originally Posted by Thomasmoto

Copy that. My wife and daughter went to Converse. I spent many hours over there thru the years. My wife was on their board for a few years.