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I always look at the descent before deciding if I can do the climbing. I’m not a daredevil at all & I’m still on clinchers. I’ve done some pretty hairy ones in the Carolinas. I’ve driven up the from St Mary’s on the east side & back down. We did go part way down the west side but not all the...

Scored some Wahoo, Flounder, Shrimp. & crab cakes. Blackened the Wahoo & boiled the shrimp. Had heard this was a good seafood market & found that to be true. Probably try something different tomorrow, scallops for blackening and some more shrimp to be grilled.

We go to Chicago every 5 years or so. This aunt & uncle are back forth between Chicago & NC. That’s not far from their son.

Pro Tip: You can’t put the side tent up on your 560 Ultra if you don’t bring the straps. In case anyone out there was wondering, it doesn’t work. Had this Kelty with us so we are trying it. Got to remember to clip on some walls when I change clothes or the neighbors will get a free show.

We were in the mountains of N.C. this weekend. Drove up to Mt Mitchell and at 6600 feet the temps were in the low 60s. Pretty windy too so we we had on jackets to go up the observation tower at the top. Home in the humidity of Upstate SC loading up Jeremiah to head to camp at Edisto Beach...

That is true. Very true. I never hid that I played pinball, though. She was genuinely mad that I had played pinball too. Pinball museum was cool, I will definitely go back.

Visiting my aunt and uncle in the N.C. mountains. Went in to Asheville & there is a pinball museum. We played for about an hour or so. My mother is with us and somehow she didn’t know we played pinball as kids.

It was in the Devil’s Garden Picnic grounds. Nobody got hurt but once the dad offered food to one, then 5-6 more Ravens showed. They were little kids and man they were screaming. We saw ravens in every park that trip. We joked the one from the Grand Canyon was following us. That was in the...

Correction: the raven in my profile is from the Grand Canyon. The one I posted here yesterday is from the same trip, but that one was at Arches. We were at picnic ground and a family at a nearby table decided it was a good idea to feed the raven. Their kids are probably still in therapy 10 years...

Facebook memories from 2016. The day I posted the picture I use here on the forum of the Raven taken at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The other pic is not our 560 Ultra. This is at Bryce NP & it was the day we arrived there. These folks weren’t there all day & they came just before...

Got class done, had crops country practice first thing this morning. Tomorrow, we head up to Mooresville, NC to see our daughter this weekend.

Nice here today too. 70s and not humid. Can’t get outside to take advantage of it. Having to take a class and have my work turned in by Friday. 2 essays to go and I’m done. Last one I’ll ever take because I’m retiring after next year and my certificate will be good for 5 years.

We put a lot of thought into ours - I’m Warren & she’s Mary Ellen.

At one point we were getting a Buc-ees at one of the exits of of I-85 in the S.C. county l live in. Exit 21, but it eventually fell apart because they couldn’t get the funds to upgrade the exit on/off ramps plus the overpass. Lake Hartwell is only half mile south of the exit and they’ll need to...

Extra paper towels, toilet paper, paper plates, backpacks. Not a lot of any of it since it’s not real accessible. Spare set of wheel bearings just in case we have a problem.

It is. It’s like living in a Southern Gothic novel.

Been to Falls Creek before. Mary Ellen’s parents lived in Crossville for 20 years so we were up there several times a year. We were at Cumberland Mountain State Park more since it was closer to them. The spillway there is an artificial waterfall. That part of Tennessee is beautiful.

Back around ‘82 or ‘83, Anderson County where I live was deemed the Murder Capital of the US. Textile mills were closing left and right, unemployment was around 15% in the area. Upstate SC still has a pretty high crime rate. This one involved an argument of money, drugs & an argument about the...

We had a murder a little over a block from the house this week. How are things in your neck of the woods?

It was so cool here this morning we needed a jacket for our walk this morning. Never had a jacket on in S.C. in June unless it was raining. I know million degree days aren’t far away, but this was nice.