What You Can Do In Five Days

Find yourself baffled by the sprawling potential of a Five Day Weekend? Wondering how you could ever fill so many blanks in your weekly calendar?

Don't worry. We're here to help.

Luckily, we're based in a happening little place called Asheville, N.C., so we can pretty much just walk down the street and get a few hundred ideas for what we'd do with the extra time.

In fact, Asheville is so behind the Five Day Weekend, you can use the Convention and Visitors Bureau's Web site to plan a five-day visit. Just take that and multiply it by every week of the year. Boom. You've got your Five Day Weekend lifestyle all set.

If you still need some starting points, may we recommend:

• A nice little hike
• Discovering your inner 19th century tycoon
• Taking up horseback riding
• Getting a cup of real, non-office coffee
• A day of mountain biking
• Renting a bike, if you don't have one
• Gourmet cooking lessons
• Going to a winery
• A day out with a llama
• Piloting a hot air balloon
• Rock climbing
• Getting to know the joy of a kayak
• Whitewater rafting
• Taking the kids out to get some learnin'
• Golf, an obscure sport believed to be from Scotland
• Picking up some local produce at a farmer’s market
• Spending some of that money you earned on Monday and Tuesday

Well, that should be enough to get you started. Oh, and you can probably devote one day to sleeping in. No crime in that.

Want to inspire some folks to get outside and enjoy life? Share your weekend destination photos in our Flickr group!