One More Day Until Atlanta

We moved the whole 28 miles down the road to the Blue Ridge KOA, a very nice campground right on the Toccoa River.  And we have been busy.  

We were frustrated with our fire pit in Murphy.  I made up 2 propane hoses with quick disconnects, one 18' long and the other 12' long, and they can be connected together to be 30' long.  Although we haven't used the fire pit much this year, but when we did I used the short hose and it was great.  In Murphy at Peachtree Cove we needed the whole 30' and we couldn't get much flame.  Jan even cleaned out the pit and replaced the rocks, and still pathetic.  It was bugging me, so when we got to Blue Ridge I decided to do some figuring.  So I removed the quick connection fittings from the long hose to see if there were any restrictions in the hose, no, hmmm.  So I removed the fittings from the short hose and the same.  Then I took a closer look at the male portion of the fittings and found, amazingly that one was wide open with perhaps a 1/4" opening and the other had a pinhole only!  Now I am the one that put the quick disconnects on.  I thought I had bought two identical kits and never really looked at them.  Never even knew there were different fittings for whatever reasons.  Anyway, the local Ace Hardware had the correct fitting, so now we have FIRE in our fire pit:-)

The bad fitting

The correct fitting
We did this when Jan had the rocks out,
actually the flames are even higher when the rocks are installed

We had a nice surprise when friends' John and Diane came up to visit.  We met at a great restaurant in town, Southern Charm, had a super meal and a super visit.  Then we moved down the street to a brewery, Grumpy Old Men, that another friend, Brett had recommended and had a rare, for us, and delicious beer.  It is a cool place with quite the choice of beer, from porter to IPA to lager, something for everyone.  They have a couple food trucks there also, that we did not use, but it was busy, lots of outdoor seating, friendly informative pourer, worth a go.

Diane, John, and I solving the problems of the world:-)
A beautiful day

We then came back to the campground for a fire!  And a bourbon for us, and wine for the gals.  It was a gorgeous day and pleasant evening, perfect visit before they had to make their way back home.

I said we've been busy, well it's true, busy riding around, exploring, and finding places to eat.  It's a tough life but someone's got to do it.  We found a cool place called Rocco's in Jasper, GA.  We had an excellent lunch and while there and reading the menu found out they have a bourbon list that is amazing!

If you are at all familiar with bourbon, check out this list!
I mean, Pappy?????

Jan's fantastic patty melt

My luscious cheese steak,
and those onion rings were the absolute bomb!

Another day we went back to Blairsville to that Cuban restaurant I mentioned before, Nani's for one more meal.  Remember I said we did a lot of eating as well as exploring:-)

Pork mojo with yellow rice and red and black beans

Shrimp Creo with the same sides

Then we drove a big loop in the mountains through Suches, at least we think we did, as we climbed in elevation we got up into the clouds, fog, and drizzle, we couldn't see anything for awhile until we came back down, but it still was a gorgeous drive.

We drove by the upper Toccoa River which looks excellent to fish in the future.

The scenery was beautiful even with the incoming weather.

Yesterday was Veteran's Day, we are so thankful for our vets who put everything on the line to protect our freedom and way of life, thankful this day and every other day.  So we were quite disappointed that our flag was the only flag flying in the campground.

So tomorrow we move down to Atlanta, we both have dentist appointments, dermatologist appointment, pick up our mail and a few packages, visit with friends, and then we will make our way to Florida for the winter.