Weekend Get Away

It took us six hours to get to the cabin in the woods of NC. But, it was an enjoyable 36 hours away from home. We left around 5:30pm heading south on I-75 to Knoxville. We hit Knoxville and then headed northeast through Tennessee to Virginia and then wound through Virginia on state route 58. I highly do not recommend state route 58! This road is as bad as the road to Hana in Hawaii. It is about 30 miles long but will take you about 2 hours to traverse because it is a squiggly road through the mountains. JMS agrees! He got car sick about 13 miles from the cabin. It was 11:15 at night and he was wearing his lunch and dinner. Poor little guy! The cabin was beautiful...and very comfortable. Here is a photo of the kitchen:On Saturday we went kayaking in New River. Here are a couple things we learned from the kayaking experience: 1)check your equipment before you leave the house; 2)check to see that the water source has enough water to float; and, 3)it is possible to sink a kayak.

Details you ask...
1) my husband's kayak was full of water when he put it in the water, and it continued to take water along the trip down river
2) the pickup truck (with 249,000 miles) ran out of gas when we arrived at the point where we were to enter the river
3) my husband's paddle snapped in half about 3/4 of the way down river
4) we scooted our kayaks along multiple points of the river b/c there was not enough water to get us over the rock beds
5) yes, my husband sunk his kayak in 2 feet of water!


Funny how most of these lessons learned came from my husband's kayak. This is why I love him!

JMS got to play with his cousin and in these photos they were making each other laugh and giggle.
We had to leave Sunday afternoon to get back in time to get the dog out of puppy jail, but no car sickness on the trip home! Thank goodness.