I've left Wilmington, NC and have headed West.
I dropped Renee at Charlotte's airport about 1 and have ended up just west of Knoxville. I was going to camp, but the gal at the camp grounds expected it to be rainy again tonight as it has rained every day the past week.
So I wimped out and am in a Micro tel. Small room, smells a bit weird, but they all seem to do that. They have a nice 20% tax on hotel rooms here, seems excessive, but I've been off the road for a decade.
Tomorrow's plan is to end up at the Toad Suck Park which is a bit beyond Little Rock, AR. I suppose I should worry about the Arkansas Mafia, but they should all be at the convention tomorrow.
It's a run of about 8 hours and 550 miles. Which is about 1/2 the way left to Albuquerque.
The Grimes' annual vacation draws to a close as we all scatter back to work or our corners of the world. We ended the last night doing a low country boil, which is sausage, shrimp, corn, onions, potatoes, old Bay seasoning and some snow crab legs and claws. Barb's brother Joe brought his gas powered burner and big pot, which did a nice job on the cooking.
Traditionally one pours the food onto newspapers and all get handsy over goods. A bit of butter for corn and potatoes and some cocktail sauce for the shrimp and it's quite a feast. We passed on the newspaper ink and used some trays.
I left the beach Saturday evening as I wanted to split some of the driving up, since I was not going to be driving until 10am or so.
I spent the night at Beth's, Barb's younger sister, and I crashed and slept in a bit. Tanner, one of Sharon's brood, brought Renee up with some fried chicken sandwiches from Milton's. Then we drove to Charlotte.
About 3 hours to get there and Renee got off ok. She is connecting to DC, then Belgium and then on to Ghana. If you read the earlier post, I did have the tree wrong, but I don't remember what the real one it.
Beth's son, Joseph has started a blog, "The Life of Joseph Martinez" I'm told there are several posts there already. I'm going there next.
My destination is Albuquerque where my mom has prepared a new list of items to help with. I'm guessing I'll be there a week or so, then off to California and home and some time not on the road.
It's been a good trip with lots of unexpected items, but even with seeing friends and new places, I'm about ready to head for the house. When I traveled for work, 10 days was usually an edge beyond which I started to get twitchy. I'm feeling ok, but I'm looking forward to being home.
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