Day 2, Georgia 2024

Today was an easy day… but it was quite brisk. Heated jacket liner was on most of the day. We got out by 0830 and headed west. Wandering around looking for gravel. Didn’t find any…but we found a dead Armadillo in the road… Trevor thought that was cool as he had never seen one as they do not reside in Canada. A bit later we pulled over to find out where we were and we noticed an eagle sitting in a tree with two crows hassling it. It finally took off and flew away. After that we headed up towards Look Out Mountain and stopped at Point Park and we wandered around it and marveled that something like this could be taken by an opposing force that was climbing up the steep mountain side while it was being defended. They have large plaques with the casualties. We were all surprised at the number of missingsoldiers after the battle. Those were the largest numbers on the boards for either side. We left there and walked through the visitor center and learned a few things. Then we wound down to the valley floor and over to a Cycle Gear store where Mike bought a new Cardo Edge which allows us to talk between riders. Mike’s old one quit working. We left there and headed over to a Chic Filet as Trevor said he was told he had to go while in the State’s. While trying to get out of Chattanooga we were stopped in a long line of cars and I was looking at a Krispy Kreme shop. I was in the far left lane and it was on our right. I was thinking that Trevor should try a doughnut from there… but I was in the left turn lane… then Mike pipes up… Hey, a Krispy Kreme! Yeah, I saw it… Mike asks if Trevor ever had one… What’s a Krispy Kreme? With that traffic started creeping forward and I made it obvious that I wanted over so we cut across two lanes just in time to make it. We bought a half dozen… he liked them. After that we wound our way back to Tommy’s house. I took a route that I know but just a bit into it we came upon a house fire. Smoke streaming across the road, fire trucks in the midst. We turned around and went to the other side of the mountain and took a curving route over the last mountain. It was Around 50° all day and a very strong north wind started blowing when we were on Look Out Mtn and kept up the rest of the day. Brrr, 27° tonight and we will start out later in the day tomorrow!

These Parrot 10 pounder cannons can shoot that 10# ball 3 miles!