We’re off on another adventure trip of sorts. The plan is to meander through the US for a couple of weeks and then make our way back down to Ajijic Mexico for 5 weeks. At the end of that time, if the weather is still cold and snowy at home, we’ll head up to Arizona and Utah and travel around until home temperatures get comfortable.
As I write this can’t help thinking “What’s wrong with those folks” who could retire but “Don’t know what they’d d with themselves” Maybe we’re just lucky being born with this adventurous spirit.
We left on Monday and made our way slowly to Pittsburg where we spent the night with Lynne’s cousin Judy. I’ve always liked judy but, never really spend any time with her. We had a GREAT evening. I’m so glad I got to know her better. We went out for dinner to a place called Br Gr – Is that not the best name for a really classy burger joint. My Bison burger was fantastic!
Tuesday we made it to Cindy and Ed’s place in North Carolina. Cindy and I worked together years ago. We re-connected a few years back and, the four of us have a great time together. They are both fantastic host and hostess and . . .Ed is a GREAT cook! I had one of the best steaks ever last night for dinner!
We thought that the weather would have warmed up a bunch by the time we got to NC and, it had. It was only about -10 and snowing as we pulled into town. All we heard about in the morning though was how bad the roads were everywhere. I gave Ed a hand pushing a half inch of snow off of the driveway before we left. The side roads had a tiny bit of snow but, the highways were clear and, for the most part, totally dry. They warned us that Atlanta was shut down because of the snow.
4 1/2 – 5 hours got us to Atlanta. The roads are dry . . . and empty. It was like driving through a ghost town. There’s a 1/2 inch of snow at the sides of the roads. People here just don’t know how to deal with snow around here. I’m told it snows about once every two years here. . Cars are abandoned everywhere. No restaurants open. Grocery stores are open and are CROWDED! We have no idea why the cars are still abandoned. I met a fellow at the store. He’s an older black guy. Really nice and fun to talk to. He said to us that NOW he understands why the sough lost the war!
The sun has been shining, roads are 98% clear and dry but, all these abandoned everywhere. There are an unbelievable number of cars sticking 2/3 out into the lane they were driving in. No reason that we can see of at all for them to still all be out there. Crazy.
I generally figure that, it’s good to have stuff go screwy on a trip. If you get home and everything was perfect, what have you got to talk about. So far, we’ve got tons.
We’re off to Birmingham tomorrow. They tell us it’s been closed down too so, I’m counting on empty roads again!
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