Road Trip USA 2 -day 2
Fayetteville, NC to Meridian, MS
Up early once again, tried to use the car wash to no avail. Got back on the highway. We’d started to see signs for the crazy tourist trap, “South of the Border” last night, but they were easier to see in the daylight. Our favorite was on that said, “Too mouch tequila!” upside-down. I wish we’d gotten some pictures of them, because the place is hilarious. I can’t believe it’s actually established itself as a place worthy to be on both our AAA maps, AND our GPS! Kris got some shots of the actual area itself as we drove by, and into South Carolina.
Our day was mostly uneventful. It was still cold for our journey through Georgia, and only started to warm up once we hit Alabama. We drove through all the big cities - Atlanta, Birmingham - and even saw SF over Georgia near Atlanta. It’s too bad we don’t really have a lot of time to stop and sightsee like we did in the summer.
Our most interesting part of the day was trying to find “Dreamland Barbeque” in Alabama. GPS had no idea how to get there, and we were about to give up (after having driven in circles for about 20 minutes) when we finally saw a sign for the place - if we’d blinked, we would have missed it. When we found the resturant, Kris thought it looked too sketchy to eat in, but he took a look inside and we decided since we’d taken the time to find the damn place, we might as well eat there. I was in the mood for bbq since the disappointment of Porky’s yesterday.
Well, the place seemed pretty quaint - only like 2 items on the menu - a full rack of ribs, or a half-rack. But it was also yummy. And apparently not lying in the “famous” department. We noticed we were seated at a booth next to a signed “To Dreamland BBQ” picture of Penn and Teller.
We finished up, and headed out to our stop, racing to catch this week of “The Amazing Race.” Well, the same stupid thing happened where we almost missed it, again, like in the summer. But it was this “summing it up” episode - which was totally stupid. We were like, why the heck did we race here for this???
The most interesting part of the day happened when we went out to the car to bring our stuff in for the night. Another guest of the hotel came out and said howdy. He asked if we were following him - because he had seen us at a rest stop in Alabama. Kris had had the hood of the car open, trying to see where the heck this annoying oil leak had come from, and the man was going to come over and see if we were ok. We were fine, and left before he did come over, but then we all ended up at the same hotel together. He said we’d see them on the road tomorrow, because they were headed home to Texas, which is where we were going too.
We’re both still stuffy and sick feeling. I hope we can get over this before we get to spend time in Six Flags over Texas.
