2009 Mitty Road Atlanta

On the way to Road Atlanta we ran by The Iron Pig about lunch time so we decided to stop. It was crowded with local farm workers having lunch. We had all this great food for such a good price. The service was even good to us. The bbq sauce was a little tomato and a little vinegar, but not too much of vinegar to be bad. I like mine tomato based and sweet.

Here are the Cobra's all lined up on Saturday morning. We parked and then walked around to see what else was there. We were able to see alot of interesting cars, all the cars that raced were in the middle and we were able to stop and look at all of them, and even talk to a few drivers or pit workers.

These are cars that drove on the parade and touring laps. We didn't go this time, but we enjoyed it last year. It's neat to drive your own car on such a diverse race track.

Amish Country

We took a buggy ride today, we drove my numerous amish farms, this lady was mowing her yard. I like how the amish go around bearfoot when it's warm. Too bad we couldn't get away with that.














The amish farms are just beautiful, every part of the yard is used for gardening, weather it's veggies, fruits or flowers
Here we are stopped at a local amish farm. They had qulits, and other handmade items. I bought some potholders and coasters. They had homemade whoopie pies that we tried.


Here's a charming family, the children are all out at the road playing.

we bought homemade root beer at this farm house.


this is our campsite, and the view from our campsite. we watched amish buggies go by all day and night long. It was very neat to see.

Camping

This is our campsites in New York. We stayed at a very nice campground.
On our first night there mom and I drove to the shower house. Yes, we had to drive because it was on the other side of the campground.
We get ready to get into the shower and realize it takes money to get the shower to start. The sign above the money slot says "50 cents first five minutes." Great, good thing I did drive. I went out to the truck and found two dollars in quarters. That's enough for mom and I to each have a dollar.
So we get into the showers. The key is to get fully undressed and ready to enter the shower before adding the money. I was afraid I would run out of water, so I washed all the important parts first and finished with washing my face last, figuring I could wash my face in the sink if I had to.
Soon as my water stopped and I stepped out to grab my towel the lights went out. Wouldn't you know, they are set on a timer. Bad thing is, it goes off while you're still undressed. So I'm thinking I'm gonna have to go open the door to get the lights back on. So with my towel wrapped around me I pull back the curtain and luckily, they come back on with the motion of the curtain opening. So we were able to get dried off and get finished up. While brushing our teeth we noticed all the hair in the sink, not very pretty.
That was quite an adventure. Luckily for the guys we found out about the shower needing money and the lights being on a timer first. I could just see the guys standing there getting out of the shower butt naked and the lights go out. I could see Chad saying "Cory, you messing around, knock it off, it's not funny"
On our last morning there, mom and dad drove up to take their showers. Mom took seventy five cents, and wouldn't you know it, when her water stopped she was covered in soap from her head to her toes and still had conditioner in her hair. Not having any more money on her, she dried off best she could and had to finish rinsing her hair in the sink. Now we know why there was hair in the sink that first night.


We ended up setting up an extra tent so the boys had a larger one with more room. The extra tent we put our chairs in.
On Monday we had to go do our laundry so I took stuff out of the back of the truck so all our laundry would fit. I put all the stuff in the extra tent. It was our snack bucket and the car parts Chad had received for his birthday.
That last night Chad had to get his car parts out of the extra tent. It had been giving them trouble zipping up, so he decided since no one was going to be in it, he could leave it cracked a bit.
After we got settled in our tents and ready for bed, I hear some rustling about. I figure it's one of the boys so I yell at them to get back into their tent. When no one answers me I get a little upset and decide they are ignoring me. So I grab my lantern and put it up toward the window.
Oh no, it's a skunk and he's crawling into that little opening Chad left in the tent door. I don't want to startle him and make him spray me, so I start whispering, shoo shoo. Well that doesn't work, he goes inside and finds the snacks. Pretty soon we start to hear him nibbling on some crackers. Then we hear some strange noises which I decide is two skunks fighting. Oh great. At this point we are prepared to leave this tent behind.
When I start to hear scratching I think they can't find a way out, so I shine the light out my window again. All the while Richard is telling me, I'm going to get us sprayed, and we don't have that many quarters to get skunk stink cleaned off us. Well, time as my light is on, one little skunk comes out and runs off. Next a big fat skunk sticks his head out the door, but is too fat to get through the hole, so he goes back in and gets a running start. He climbs out of the tent, but does not run off, he starts wandering around. Luckily he does soon wander out of our site. So Richard decides the coast is clear and wants to go get the snacks out of the tent. I tell him if he gets sprayed we will just have to leave him behind. There is no way we could all ride home with him stinking in the truck.
So he goes out and gets the snacks out of the tent and puts them in the truck and leaves the tent wide open in case the skunks come back they can find out real quick that the goodies are gone and won't have to tear the tent to get inside. He also decides it's a good idea to pee around the area to ward of the skunks.
So now the skunks are gone and we are about to fall asleep. I hear my dad in the other tent yelling as something. He has two raccoons in the food tent that he's trying to run off. Luckily they can't spray you, so after some yelling, they decided to go elsewhere.
The next morning, we checked and everything was fine, the tent didn't even stink. Lucky for Cory whose skateboard was inside it.

Camping Kings Mountain SP

The kids played games the first day, we just kinda hung out. Our first night, Chad collected some firewood and started us a fire. Later they put in a huge log and it lasted for three nights. We roasted marshmallows and talked by the fire.

On Tuesday the kids played football, badminton, Frisbee. We took a walk around the campground to check things out. When Richard got there we went on a hike.

We thought we were going on a 1 mile hike to the living history center.

Instead we ended up on a 12 mile trail. Only two of us had brought water and it was pretty warm too. We finally found a road and with the help of the crappy map we had with us we walked down the road a ways.

We had to stop and sit on the side of the road and take a break.

When someone had to go potty and went off in the woods, they thought they saw the original path we had been on, so we walked a ways and ran into a new path, the one we were supposed to be on to begin with. It took us past this lake and dam. When we got back, we were all so whooped, no one felt like cooking over a hot pan, so we went out for pizza. That night we played ABC games around the fire.

On Wednesday the kids played Frisbee, football and badminton. The other kids we were camping with came over and they played a game of I-Never. Later the park super came around and offered to let us use the game room. So we went and played some ping pong and checkers. As we were heading back from the game room it started raining. We hadn't expected rain that late in the day. So we went out to eat again because we don't happen to have a rain tent. Jim had come up for the evening and went out to eat with us.

On Thursday, Richard left early for work. The other kids that camped with us were leaving that day, so they all played a long game of football and the little kids played badminton with us moms. The kids all walked to the creek and checked it out. Kyle found a turtle on the trail.

Us moms ended up playing a game of ultimate Frisbee and dodge ball with the kids.

That afternoon we went for a drive to the living history center that we couldn't find during our hike. It was set up nice, but there was nothing going on there because it was a week day.

The kids did a science lesson with the electric fence, we studied currents and how well it traveled through your fingers. Also if you touched someone that was touching the electric wire you could feel the current run through there arm.

We also went to the military museum and walked the trails. It was a 1 1/2 mile loop, but it seemed all up hill. The 12 mile hike the day before really did us in. Here is a picture of the kids next to one of the monuments, this is a memorial of all the soldiers that died or were wounded in the battle of Kings Mountain.

The kids' good side.

On Friday, as we were finishing up, the kids were doing skateboard tricks.