Tuesday evening was gross. Really gross. Once it started to rain, it didn't stop. So instead of sleeping up in the canopy, we hesitantly decided to sleep in the bottom bed. Stuff was everywhere. Trying to clear the back bed of our stuff was quite the task and only took about 3 hours. But it was a good night's sleep in a mostly vacant Wal-mart parking lot and it was surprisingly pleasant.
We rolled out of the parking lot and headed south for Jasper, GA. Beautiful scenery through the valley was breathtaking, as well as the stench that was coming from Max's direction.
We had an interesting gas stop in southern Georgia, we had been looking for the staple of the north, Dunkin Donuts, and when we finally noticed a sign on an exit, we were excited. Being about 90 degrees out a Coolata was in order, little did we know what concoction would fill the Dunkins cup. Sugar saturated Ice with brown food coloring is the only way to effectively describe it. Yuck! Plus I scraped Buster up against a pole leaving the gas station, so now he has a little red streak on him. Not one of our better stops.
Before long we were approaching my aunt and uncle's home on Sharp Mountain. To say that Buster struggled up the steep and twisting road would be a huge understatement, at several points we were changing into 1st to make it. It was great views and we were very glad after 10 hours on the road to have a wonderful place to stay with family. My Aunt and Uncle so warmly welcomed us and fed us the most amazing food, including Peach cobbler. I got see my cousins and catch up with everyone and whats going on in their lives. We had such a wonderful time; that feeling of gratefulness was welling up again.
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