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“It’s an awesome cabin,” says Kelly Bryant,
manager of the Sautee-based Tanglewood Cabins.
“You have the paved driveway – and just the way
that the homeowner takes care of it.”
Ruhe Haus sits snug in a scenic section of
Northeast Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a
diverse region rich with natural and cultural
offerings.
Hop into Helen, about five miles away, and
you’ll find a German-flavored village where you
can feast on Bavarian cuisine at Bodensee, along
Munich Strasse, then spend an evening soaking up
suds and listening to the frothy rapids of the
Chattahoochee River at the Troll Tavern – fittingly
located below a bridge, at river’s edge.
Play miniature golf at Pirates Cove Adventure
Golf or Alpine Helen Mini Golf. Enjoy a water
slide, tube or a zipline at Cool River Tubing
Company. Devour a thick Reuben sandwich at The
Meeting Place then drift into The Christmas
Shoppe on North Main Street for fancy figurines,
ornaments and plates.
“I like the town of Helen. It’s just different,”
Norkus says. “It has the tourist thing; it has the
regular guy-town thing. It’s relaxing to me because
there’s no hustle and bustle.”
Norkus works for the sanitation department on
“I like the town of Helen. It’s
just different,” Norkus says.
“It has the tourist thing; it has
the regular guy-town thing. It’s
relaxing to me because there’s
no hustle and bustle.”
Long Island in New York. And, yes, he truly knows
hustle and bustle: Where he lives, he says,
“Everybody is right on top of everything.”
That’s why he escapes every few weeks, shuttling hundreds of miles down the highway to
Helen. “This is a long distance thing for us,”
Norkus says. “But we have plans to move here after
retirement. It’s a lot more laid-back.”
Here, within about a mile of the Ruhe Haus,
you can lose yourself in the wilds of Unicoi State
Park. Or, at nearby Sautee, you can ride for more
than three leisurely miles by horseback at the riv-
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013
Cover
Table of Contents
Letters/Worth a Click
From the Editor
Digital Help Guide
From the Farm
The Hike
Mountain Report
Creature Feature
Festivals & Events
Explore West Virginia Covered Bridges
DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Cave in to Adventure
Fall Travel to Restaurants, Diners and Dives
Photoessay: Late Fall Comes to the Mountains
What's New in these Hills?
Life and Death in Butterfield Branch
Mountain-Classic Recipes
Cabin in the Woods: A North Georgia Getaway
Mountain Garden
Guest Column
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Intro
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Cover
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Cover2
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Table of Contents
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 4
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Letters/Worth a Click
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - From the Editor
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Digital Help Guide
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - From the Farm
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 9
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - The Hike
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 11
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Mountain Report
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Creature Feature
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Festivals & Events
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 15
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Explore West Virginia Covered Bridges
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 17
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Cave in to Adventure
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DE2
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DE3
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DE4
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DE5
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - DE6
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Fall Travel to Restaurants, Diners and Dives
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 19
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 20
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 21
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 22
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 23
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 24
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 25
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Photoessay: Late Fall Comes to the Mountains
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 27
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 28
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 29
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - What's New in these Hills?
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 31
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 32
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 33
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 34
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 35
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Life and Death in Butterfield Branch
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 37
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 38
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 39
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Mountain-Classic Recipes
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 41
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 42
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 43
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Mountain Garden
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 45
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Cabin in the Woods: A North Georgia Getaway
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 47
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Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - 49
Blue Ridge Country - November/December 2013 - Guest Column
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