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On my way out of Durham today, I swung by the American Tobacco District – a wonderfully renovated tobacco factory complex now full of shops and parks but still retaining its history. Note the Lucky Strike smokestack and water tower. I continued to the west end of the state, arriving in Asheville in time for my kind of Christmas lights (purple!) and a cup of true sipping chocolate from the French Broad Chocolate Lounge (named after the river not a bordello).