Bob and Jocelyn took me to a wonderful antiques and crafts fair on Friday--a small town halfway from Lawrenceville to Athens. If you've never been to a Georgia fair, and if you're ever in these parts in October, it's a real taste of the South that we like to repeat every year. I bought each of us an illuminated candy corn necklace--real hits to the other fair goers! Bob said we should have brought them to sell, but instead we told everyone to go to the Halloween clearance table at Michaels.
We had pizza at Little Italy in Winder--where everyone in town was dressed in Halloween costumes. I loved watching the little kids and their parents trick-or-treating in the stores.
Saturday morning, Carlene and I drove into the mountains (I hadn't had enough of the fall mountains yet). In Cornelia, I asked one of the old-timers, "Where's the best barbecue around here?" He directed us to his pick and said, "It's so good it will make a puppy pull a freight train!" (which, in fact, it wasn't--but it was fun to get some local color language and talk to the men in overalls and baseball caps.)
The drive today from Franklin to Murphy was beautiful! In Blue Ridge, famous for its apples, we had the best fried apple pies I've ever tasted.
We stopped at the John C Campbell Folk Arts School and Crafts Store, then drove on to Birmingham where we had dinner at Cracker Barrel. I'd love to spend a week at the John C. Campbell school, maybe next fall.
We still have almost 900 miles to drive. We'll resume our adventures tomorrow!
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