Leave it to a hurricane and vast human suffering to trivalize a really good time.
Janet and I are just back from a two-night road trip, during which we repeatedly wished we had a laptop and a wi-fi connection, because we wanted to record it as we went.
Instead, I'm going to break it up into segments and post them individually, but add links to this post so that it can serve as an index to the "chapters" and photo galleries. If Janet winds up posting on the trip, too, I'll add her links as well.
It's not significant on the scale of what people in the Delta are experiencing right now, but...
The trip
We left on Saturday morning, drove up to Spartanburg, ate lunch and drafted my 2005 MFL team. After a beer with the boys I called a place I'd found online in Black Mountain, N.C., and we got a marked-down rate on a suite at The Madison Inn, one of the coolest and quirkiest places on Earth. We got in Saturday evening, stashed our stuff, and ate a good dinner downstairs.
Sunday morning we had a huge breakfast, knocked around Black Mountain and then headed north up US Highway 221 to Valle Crusis and The Baird House, a B&B run by our friends Tom and Deede Hinson. We spent the afternoon hiking at Price Park, got something to eat in downtown Boone, then came back to sit on the porch overlooking the Watauga river and catch up with Tom.
On Monday we had coffee with Tom in the kitchen and then drove out of the valley via the "back way" down the Watauga River Road. We left the Blue Ridge the same way we came in, but continued down through Rutherfordton and back to Interstate 26.
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