We left Asheville and drove through the mountains. It’s off-season, but it looked very touristy in parts. We stopped in Bryson City and found out that the road to Chattanooga in Tennessee was closed, so we decided to go south to Georgia instead.
We weren’t in Georgia for long before we crossed over into South Carolina. We are headed for Savannah which is almost on the border between the two.
Last night we stayed at our first State Park. It was excellent – clean and quiet and inexpensive – $16. I am having trouble using my Canadian credit card (with the chip that they don’t have down here) and my interact card (sometimes they want a zip code?). Better to have cash.
Morgane made a friend and the two girls played together constantly until we left. We told the GPS to take us on the small roads and around lunchtime, we passed a lively looking restaurant / shop in the middle of nowhere (on a road called Due West).
It was called Grits and Groceries and we had lunch there. Ghis had great fresh asparagus. I had shrimp and gravy and grits, but it was too salty to eat, so I had the quail and okra on grits instead which was much better. We didn’t have cash, but they said we could mail it once we got to Savannah, so we will.
Now we are still heading to the coast, but not in any rush. We are stopped in a very pleasant library where Morgane has made another fort.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so we need to grocery shop since everything is supposed to be closed.
One thing I forgot to mention is this is rocking chair country. Love it!
I laughed so hard when I read the part about Morgane lining up the stuffed animals. Cute indeed!
Got Ghis’ message last night (tuesday is yoga and wed. Pilates). Hope you guys are doing well. How’s the writing going?