North Georgia Now, Docs and Dentist

Every year both in the spring and in the fall we need to come back to Georgia.  Even though we have moved most of our docs to Florida, we have kept our coveted dentist, and our dermatologist there.  We may have to finally change part of this as our dentist is talking about retiring, God forbid:-)

So I left you as we were leaving Nashville and from there we headed south to Guntersville, AL to a new to us campground, River Ridge.  We liked it, there weren't very many people there, it is near the water, the Tennessee River system, and is situated on hundreds of acres where an old Monsanto plant was.  Quiet and dark, two of our favorite things.

Our big site

And view of the water

We were only there for a couple nights, but managed to find a good lunch at nearby Wintzell's Oyster House.

We shared this delicious combo,
hush puppies, crab cake, oysters, shrimp, scallops, and catfish!

Mostly we chilled there, walked around, enjoyed the fire pit, the surroundings, and of course cooked.

The old pier, I guess for Monsanto

Steamed soy and ginger cod, with sticky rice and broccoli

Next we moved over to Murphy, NC and one of our favorite campgrounds, Peachtree Cove, small, private, like being in our own park.  It also let us get something done that is so challenging while traveling and that is washing the coach and the truck, which desperately needed it. 

 

Unfortunately the weather didn't really cooperate with us too much, cool and cloudy, and unbelievably we were immersed in smoke from several forest fires not too many miles away.  This is definitely not something we see in the east very often, conditions are very dry and lightening started at least a couple of them.  But luckily it wafted in and out with the wind.  The extreme dryness also affected the Nantahala River to the point it was too low to fish:-(

So what to do?  Go to one of our very favorite BBQ places, Rib Country for lunch.

And enough brisket left over for lunch the next day!

Jan took advantage of a no rain and slightly warm day and pulled all the window screens out and washed them along with the windows.  And I went and got some mundane maintenance done on the truck, an oil change and a tire rotation.  Sometimes it's a bit challenging getting the normal every day items done as you travel around, but we have gotten pretty good at it after all these years.

So after all that brisket we figured we needed a little lighter meal:-)

So with the fishing not available we decided to drive into Asheville, go to a favorite cigar shop, and have lunch at a very favorite Vietnamese place, Wild Ginger, even though it was more than 100 miles one way, and then we decided since we weren't doing anything else we'd make it a big loop and come back through Brevard, Cashiers, Highlands, and Franklin, 250 miles in all!  

Spicy beef salad

Superb pho!

And on yet another cool rainy day we headed to Blairsville, GA to another favorite place, Nani's for Cuban.

Picture doesn't do it justice, but this is one of the best Cuban sandwiches
we've ever had and the beans, oh wow

Shrimp creole with more of those amazing beans

We took advantage of the down time and made a lot of new plans for next year.  As I have mentioned before, it is now necessary to make reservations way, way in advance especially in popular places.  I won't get into this right now, but next year is going to be a year of big changes for us, if our plans pan out.  I'll get into this much later when we actually have some kind of feel for it.

So now we have arrived at our base of operations for the next week or so, Talona Ridge, an exceptional RV resort to see friends, dermatologist, dentist, and a bunch of other errands to run while near Atlanta.

Somebody's ready:-)