Mike called me up and lit a fire under me to meet him for a ride in the North Georgia area.....I had tilled up 2/3's of my back yard the and re-seeded it last night, so I had to take the other exit out of it over some huge white oak tree roots....jumped them and got on the pavement and headed North to meet up with him in Hartwell....it had taken me longer to get going than I had planned, and I was running a few minutes late......I passed him going the opposite direction a few miles South of our meet-up point, so I pulled off the road and he zipped around and met me.....we back tracked to the Mickey D's so he could get some coffee and me to answer the call of the peanut bladder.....
I took us on a circuitous route to Cornelia where a Cousin had told me there was to be a BBQ festival in progress.....after a couple of laps through town, we found a place to park......had another bladder break, and then found out only a couple of folks actually SELLING BBQ......
......the line was too long for me and Mike told me he'd had BBQ the night before, so we went to plan "B".....we walked a block across the street to Fender's Diner.....an old diner decorated in the 50's theme......they had fried green tomatoes on the appetizer list, so we had to try those out......YUMMMYY!!......
Mike then stunned the pretty little waitress by ordering HALF of the menu.....
Actually, he just had a burger and a salad and I had a light lunch of a fried chicken breast, potato salad, black-eyed peas, cornbread, mashed taters and gravy, green beans, and fried okra....
then it was off for some more good riding......up around Lake Rabun where we hopped off long enough to snap a pic or two.....
Mike asked me to take him back to Tallulah Falls Gorge where the Great Wallenda walked across it in 1970....the year I was born......
We drank one of the little bottled Cokes as we sat in the glider on the porch overlooking the Gorge....listening the the water roar down below.....
I split off from Mike in Clayton and then headed 3 miles North to Mountain City, GA to see my Mother and Aunt and Uncle.....here's a pic of my childhood home.....my Brother owns it now.....looks like he's added a front porch onto it......and has the front yard trashed up in true Redneck fashion.....
Had a good visit with Mama.......then headed back South to avoid a rainstorm creeping up on me.....I had time to stop at one of my favorite BBQ places for a pint of Brunswick stew.....since I'd had a "light" lunch......
All in all it was a great day.....Mike and I had gotten sprinkled on only once.....not enough to do any damage.....then there was the good roads we were able to ride.......good food......Family visit....can't ask for much more than that.......
