Day 12 – Road Trip
We had a hire car booked to get us down to the third leg of this Epic Adventure, pick up was Morgantown, around 90 miles south of the
@Mad Dog resort. This seemed a good place to get the car as it was enrooted to our destination, Sevierville, Tennessee for a week long stay by the Smokey Mountains with Friends @Bob Wadd and Dianne.
@Mad Dog had us at the Enterprise rental in Morgantown in good time and we said our goodbyes. We had an issue with a credit card which held us up a little, I was trying to use an out of date card, whoops. We resolved the problem and I was soon sat in my ride, a Hyundai Tucson. They first offered me a Nissan but I’m thinking about a Tucson as my next set of wheels back home so asked if I could switch wont het a better test drive than the 6.5 hrs down to TN.
6.5hrs is a long drive by UK standards but the journey went surprisingly quick, we made 3 stops, first one to sort out the problem with the credit card, it was nearly banks closing time back home so we needed to do this. We passed by
@Disneyhead home town and we did see the Pies and Pints place he had recommended but decided it was too early for lunch and we wanted to make tracks after our earlier stop. We eventually stopped just over half way for lunch, a quick bite at Wendy’s for a Dave single and some coffee then back on the road, we would go on to make one more rest stop around an hour out.
The ride through the mountains was a good one with nice views, Google did a good job of getting us there and the only issue we had other than the credit card was a rain storm in WV. Down in one of the valleys rain was so heavy I had zero visibility; thankfully this only lasted a few minutes. We arrived at our destination in Sevierville at 5.30PM.
We pulled up at our log cabin and were soon greeted by our good friends @Bob Wadd and Dianne. We had all had long journeys to get here so the plan was a night in. The guys had already been at got groceries so we were set for dinner, Pizza, Deli Meats, cheese, bread were already in the fridge but the best think was Dianne had got me a 6 pack of Florida Cracker, the beer I so liked in NYC. Samantha was also made up as they had also got us English tea bags and a porcelain tea pot. Also in the fridge was a jar of moonshine.
We only had our car for the trip down so decided to drop it off that night so we could get straight out in the morning, with that out of the way we spent the night, drinking eating and catching up.