Friday & Saturday 4/24, 25

And so we begin another Adventure:

Den and I drove from my mothers to Warminster so I might pay my respects to a friend from Prudential, Jack Callaghan, who was being laid to rest today, Friday April 24, 2009. Thanks Jack, you were a nice guy and you brought me back to visit with a few Pru friends.

Den, Julie and I went to my favorite Mexican restaurant in Manassas, Guapo's. We enjoyed, well at least I did.

Saturday 4/25/09 - At 705 we hit the road in search of a CVS with a free ATM. The CVS does not open until 0800 so we decided to push on to Atlanta.GPS estimates arrival about 4:30 PM.

US29 is a very pleasant ride almost likean I route. As we approached E on the fuel guage we decided to ask the GPS for information. It took us to Walton Mt (a TV series a while back) and museum. 7.5 miles in, 2 miles parallel, fuel, 7.5 miles back to US29. Within a mile on US29 we passed a fuel (same off brand as what we had purchased) station.

Lunch became an adventure too. We decided to GPS food and found BeeBop Inn listed. We think we found it in a small shopping center parking lot as a pad site. The building had been a restaurant of some kind but was no longer in business. Another option was O'Henry Bar B Q which, we found but there were no, none, zero cars in the parking lot. Back to US29 south.

Earlier in the ride we had done a search on the GPS for a fast food franchised restaurant called "Buiscuitville." No luck even when we tried "bis" and similar searches. We were currently transitioning from US29 to I85 and decided to stop after we reached I85 and stop at anything for lunch. As we approached the next exit there were eight food offerings, one of which was Biscuitville, God had directed us.

I, Mel, took over driving after lunch. As we came close to the end of NC, where gas is expensive and entered SC, where gas is cheap, I passed a series of $1.78 signs at 2 or 3 exits. I made a decision , the next exit is it! It turned out to be the first one with a Sunoco, my credit card,but also the one where the four gas stations posted $1.88. Oh well. We filled up at the expensive rate and pushed on. The next three exits, count them three, all boasted $1.78 regular unleaded.

We arrived at the Hunters about 6:30 without any problems. Jessica's friend from college, Tiffany and her husband, Fred O'Hara joined us for dinner.An extremely tasty chicken dinner called Bourbon Chicken (no booze) served over seasoned rice abd broccalli was enjoyed by all.
We chatted until 10:45, or so, and retired.