Searcher: A little bit closer

December 3rd and we are slowly making our way south. The last entry was made from Charleston, West Virginia . We continued from the tip of West Virginia into Virginia and stopped for night in Marion, Virginia on the edge of the Smoky Mountains. The next morning it was only 27 degrees! We kept pushing south in hopes of finding summer or at least spring like weather, and in so doing we moved through three states in one day! From Virginia we drove into Tennessee and then North Carolina. The sun was still with us but the temperature was not conducive to camping. We stopped in Dillsboro, North Carolina along side a beautiful fast moving river. By this time we were in the heart of the Smokies and were fortunate that it was dry and not freezing rain. The sun was once again with us this morning as we wove our way through the Smokies into Georgia. We were hoping that by the time we reached the Clayton, Georgia area where Richard's friend has a home we would be able to blow the pink goo out of our plumbing in the motor home and set up house keeping! A little premature thinking on our part. We did find his place, stopped to check it out. I say "checked it out" because we were not able to negotiate the drive into his place. Extreme narrow mountain lanes were at the beginning of each resident's property and to reach their homes we would have needed something a lot smaller then the 30 foot camper; something closer in size and speed of a mule! By this time my knuckles were about at white as they could get and decided that we would just push on south. We drove on out of the Smokies and into more gentle rolling hills in the Madison, Georgia area just a few miles south of Athens. This is our stop over for the night and we are sharing the motel with a few wrestling teams that were playing a tournament here in Madison. The ceiling is vibrating!

PS Forgot to mention that I had my first taste of boiled peanuts today! Yummy, but definitely received my month's quota of salt! We came out of the mountains today and into the land of peanuts and peaches! Its gotta get warmer......and soon! " Goodnight ya'll"