Comming home from TN

On the way home we took a few stops to enjoy the sights. The fog came in again early and settled over this river. We stopped at a newly constructed boat landing to see now cold the water was and to just stretch our legs some.

We enjoyed traveling on roads that ran with creeks and rivers as well as very curvy road on our ride home.
We stopped outside of Franklin so Kyle could do some gem mining. He did quite well and got a load of gems. He enjoys that sort of thing and even has his own gold mining pan.

We got to drive under bridal veil falls, which to our delight had the huge boulder that had falled years before removed so you can enjoy driving under the falls once again. We discovered that the road we were traveling on once passed under this falls with no options to go around it. Can you imagine driving down this road in the dark for the first time and realizing you have to drive under a waterfall, I think that would be a little frightening.

We stopped for lunch at this little hot dog stand and stopped to see some more water falls before getting out of the mountians.

Trip to TN to work on Don's Cobra

We left out early as possible this morning to TN to help a fellow work on his Cobra. We had been trying to get out there for a while, but things kept comming up, like the parts hadn't come in or Richard got stuck working the day they were planning some work on the car.

Since we were only going on a quick trip we took the interstate, luckily it still allows for some beautiful views, like the fog falling on the mountains and the water comming off the rocks like a waterfall. Plus it's always fun driving through the tunnel.

Since we drove in the night before we got to Don's bright and early to help with the brakes. I think seven guys in all showed up today. They got the brakes mostly completed. The car will be ready to go soon and Don and his wife will be able to enjoy it. It was nice getting to meet some more Cobra friends. Everyone we've met so far have been super nice.

After leaving Don's I wanted to go buy a local cheese farm. So I punched in the address into the GPS and we started following the directions she was giving us. We ended up on this dirt road with ruts, potholes and craters in it. At some spots Richard had to get out and check out clearance before continuing on. Needless to say, we got to the cheese farm as they were closing, and we will be leaving the area, so I will not get to see the farm.

visiting Gramma in Florida

We drove to Florida for a few days to spend some time with gramma before she gets out of the hospital. While there the boys were able to get in some swimming. Richard and dad even joined them. We had a nice visit with gramma and she got home before we got back to south carolina, so she is doing well now.

Pictures of carpet after our first road trip

This is a picture of the finished trunk after our trip, it is a little dirty, but you get an idea of the finished piece. So here is a picture of the finished carpet, since i had forgot to get a final shot when I finished. This is after our road trip to Road Atlanta, since it rained every day we were gone, the carpet got a good test, it stayed relatively drive, but boy is it dirty. I will get another shot after a good cleaning.

I also realized we never had a real good shot of the cargo rack our oldest son built for us. we first used it on our road trip to TN to pick up axles for the car, it worked real good for this trip since we were able to put the tent and chairs on it, but we were still able to open and get into the trunk.

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.