Ep 97: 50 States in One Year - Walk Behind This Waterfall. Nobody Told Me About This Road. | NC

You can walk behind this waterfall! That's not the plan for today, it just happens, the way the best things do on this trip. Episode 97 follows a full day through two of the most underrated corners of North Carolina. I start with a 45-minute breakfast conversation with Paul, the owner of the Franklin Terrace B&B, a building that's been standing since 1887, then hit the road for a waterfall crawl through Cullasaja Falls, Dry Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Silver Run Falls before arriving in Highlands, one of the wealthiest small towns in America. Along the way: drone flights in mountain wind, four deer in somebody's yard, a couple from Clemson who subscribe to the channel on the spot, more police in one evening than the previous 30 states combined, and a hotel room with a full-sized deer head mount staring down at me! Greenville is next. The book I was mentioning! https://amzn.to/4d1p6cu 🔔 New video every week — Subscribe so you don't miss a state! 📍 Franklin Terrace B&B — Franklin, NC: https://expedia.com/affiliates/highla... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ These journeys are part travel, part story, and part reminder that it’s never too late to start again. 50at60 - Stories from all 50 states during the year I turned 60! 🙌 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/michaelsteig... 🔔 Subscribe and follow along! 🌐 New project: https://chasinglightandstory.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ IN THIS VIDEO 0:32 Good morning from the Franklin Terrace — built in 1887 1:24 Still 20 states left to film — and a new project brewing 5:32 Breakfast with Paul & the history of the Franklin Terrace 8:47 Downtown Franklin — gems, jewelry stores & the 800 lb ruby 9:00 Hitting the road: the waterfall crawl begins 19:00 Dry Falls — you can walk behind this one 28:00 Bridal Veil Falls & Silver Run Falls 44:46 Getting lost in the Highlands back roads at dusk 46:51 Four deer in somebody's front yard 48:27 Arriving in Highlands — drone abort, wind wins 50:01 More police than the last 30 states combined 51:05 Dinner with Corey & Courtney from Clemson — new subscribers! 52:25 The hotel room with a deer on the wall ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 BINGE THE SERIES S1    • Searching for Light: Alaska, Washington & ...   S2    • RV Life With Penny: Florida, Alabama, Miss...   S3    • Long Roads & Open Skies: The Midwest | 50 ...   S4    • Shared Horizons: Montana, Wyoming & Idaho ...   S5    • Autumn Light: New England | 50 at 60 • Sea...   S6    • Along Rivers & Roads: The Mid-Atlantic | 5...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 FOLLOW THE JOURNEY This USA Journey https://www.50at60.com World Wide Travel https://www.theroamingcat.com Portfolio https://www.mdsimages.com My NEWEST Site! https://www.chasinglightandstory.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 GEAR I USE TO FILM THIS SERIES DJI Osmo Pocket 3 https://amzn.to/401Qtg8 Sony A7siii https://amzn.to/4bDWvLd Fuji XT4 https://amzn.to/4rfzcfB DJI Action 5 https://amzn.to/4bIv9U9 SanDisk SSD’s https://amzn.to/3ZWawN1 DJI Mini 4 Pro Drone https://amzn.to/45TtlnC Shure SM7B https://amzn.to/4cfE2oj DJI Mic Mini https://amzn.to/4r1XI3F Music: Epidemic Sound https://share.epidemicsound.com/tezllx 🛍️ My Complete Gear List (Amazon Storefront) As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. → https://www.amazon.com/shop/photomike07 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗺️ ABOUT THIS PROJECT 50 at 60 is a year-long journey to visit all 50 U.S. states during my 60th year. Not to rush through places, but to slow down, observe, and document a season of life through travel, photography, and reflection. I hope these videos inspire you to explore your own version of “The Next Step Forward.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ME 📸 Instagram:   / mdsimages   🌐 Twitter (X):   / mdsimages   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #50at60 #FranklinNC #HighlandsNC #NorthCarolina #Waterfalls #SmokeyMountains #RoadTrip ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📣 DISCLAIMER As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This video description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows me to continue to make videos much like this one. Your support is very much appreciated! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thanks for watching. See you next week. – Michael