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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Hey, this day disappeared in a flash! While Mark washed the truck I cleaned inside our rig … yeah, windows too. So many things accumulate that maybe we needed once … but they just stay onboard. Well, today I hauled off several bags of found goodies. Ha! There were 7 EXTRA shorts in Mark’s drawers, 5 of which he didn’t remember having. 😂

I sorted out our upcoming RV reservations with the help of Wayno … and also got our backed up mail sorted out. Tomorrow, we’ll finish up and park the rig til next month’s fun trip.

Congratulations to my cousin Florence Tawns who wed Peter Richer today in balmy England. The weather held, no rain. Well done, Covid style. The picture is shared by Mother of the Bride, Melanie, in Australia. Because of the dang pandemic, she wasn’t able to see her eldest daughter wed. That’s a bit sad … but a wonderful event nonetheless. Happiness always Flo and Peter. 🥂🍾❤️

The best pic I could find was their engagement picture taken while skiing in Japan …

Cutest picture!!!

Well there’s no topping that. 🥰 Ta ta til tomorrow.

Monday, September 6, 2021

Good morning sunshine! We left Twin Oaks RV Park at 8:05. Traffic is light as we roll along home. LaWayno are 10 minutes behind us. Lots of Georgia State troopers on duty. 👍🏻

Hello Florida … and nice roads. We’re making good time! Stopped MM414 to walk the dogs. LaWayno pulled in for a quick stop too. 🥰. Mark got a coffee and we’re good for the next 2 hours.

Rather than buy diesel on the Turnpike at $3.54 … we filled up at Racetrack for $3.15. 👍🏻

It was a good drive … and we arrived home to find we’ve been missed! Awww 🥰

Thanks Lani 🥰. We’re popping over with a few treasures from our travels … and maybe a swim. (It’s raining now!)

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Good morning y’all. It’s a nice 64F start for our drive south. We were both ready at 8:45 and pulled out of Creekwood Farm for our 290 mile drive to Twin Oaks for tonight’s fun. It’s a clean, easy access RV Park that’s halfway home.

Well … that was interesting. 😂 Our Garmin 770 took us off the highway … and right back on. The fun continued adding 5 miles to our trip today! The roads were rough … and jostled things around that usually don’t move! Anyway, we arrived about 330 and Waynoe came out and got the dogs and took them into their place for water and carrots. That gave us a chance to set up and get our place cooled down. They’re THE BEST friends EVER. 🥰 Of course the kids loved all the extra attention! 🐾💕

That is Stone Mountain in the distance! It has a beautiful RV park and a lot to see and do there. If you haven’t been, make it part of your trip.

Bypassing Atlanta, Georgia. It was a beautiful day, just in the mid-80s. Our GPS took us on a fantasy tour. 🙄

At Twin Oaks Park in Elko Georgia, we actually went in the pool and it was a gorgeous 86°. The air temperature was about 84. It’s really a nice park, very clean and tidy.

We had a dinner of beef tenderloin tips and sausage with peppers and onions. Yeah, it sounds a bit strange but we were cleaning up what we had left. LOL it was all delicious.

Saturday, September 4, 2021

Saturday September 4, 2021

Jimmy Gillies is playing tonight at the Creekwood Farm RV cookout. All free! Cool.

It’s now actually Sunday morning, as last night was filled with concert, free food, and a fire by the creek.

The music was great. And the Creekwood staff had a cookout with hamburgers, hotdogs, chili, beans and all the Fixin‘s. It was a good time.

Afterwards, we sat Creekside and had our last fire at Maggi Valley for the season.

LaDonna and Wayne living large. Wayno was ordering a new griddle for next camp out. 😂

Friday, September 3, 2021

Good afternoon. It’s been an absolutely beautiful day here in North Carolina. We’ve had a case of cabin fever and decided on a drive today. Mark and I had been to Mount Pisgah many years before with Paula. We remembered it being a beautiful drive. LaDonna and Wayne all had never been so we loaded up the truck with the Scotties and took a drive down the Blue Ridge.

It was a spectacular view and we stopped at all the overlooks along the way. When we got to the restaurant at Pisgah Inn we walked the dogs. Mark and I didn’t remember all the other buildings around, just the restaurant and gift shop. Things have changed so much. We took some snacks with us and ate them at the truck before heading back down the mountain. There were a lot of motorcycles out today, and no wonder, the weather was perfect 72°.

Plenty of overlooks … and to let the faster traffic by.

The drive from our campground to the Blue Ridge Parkway took us along the devastation route of hurricane Fred. There was horrific damage from the Pigeon River flash flooding! Homes have been moved off their foundation, and trees down. All along the road crews were working to maintain and clean up. Piles of furniture and debris were all along the road.

Sad. Twenty-two died in the area.

Back at the campground, more people have flooded in for the Labor Day weekend. The park is nearly full now. LaDonna and Wayne are cooking tonight … Mark and I relaxed for a couple hours before going over for salad and dinner.

Thursday, September 2, 2021

The insidious rumble of a factory got me up early today. What the heck it’ a mulch grinding company! 😳 No one else seems to notice it.

Anyway, good morning. Mark is just taking the dogs for their first walk of the day at 8:10. We have a few errands to run today. The most important is picking up prescription eye drops for Wayno. Both years that we’ve come to the mountains from Florida, his eyedrop medication has diminished in the plastic bottles. Could this be caused by a pressure change in altitude? Weird eh?

We’re going to look at an RV park we’ve seen signs for that’s halfway up a mountain. It’s called Trail’s End. Pics online look pretty nice.

No one has to cook tonight … we’re going out to J. Arthur’s for dinner.

It’s now 7 o’clock and we’ve had a lovely dinner. LaDonna had brown trout, Wayno ate chicken Parmesan, Mark had salmon and I had onion soup and a Cobb salad. Everything was delicious.

It was a beautiful clear evening, no mist around at all and the humidity very low. It was a beautiful view of all the mountains as we drove back to the RV park.

Tonight? Well, Waynoe bought more firewood so I guess we will be having a bonfire and some drinks. That’s what we enjoy, something we can’t do in Florida at this time of year.

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Good morning and happy September! My favorite time of year is arriving! Here in Maggie Valley it’s raining and the creek is now a fast flowing river.

Misty rain ☔️

The rain cleared about 1 o’clock and it was a beautiful afternoon. Mark cooked a taco meatloaf for dinner along with a salad. We sat outside at 4 o’clock for happy hour and then came in for dinner about 530. Now, it’s 7 o’clock and we have a happy little fire going Creekside. Actually, it’s more like a fast flowing river, but we’ll manage it. 😂

This afternoon, Sue and Wayne went to see Marlene and Harry’s new cottage they are building at falcon. It looks beautiful, and they are hoping to move in in 30 days.