Road Trip Day 1 - Today we started our 3 day road trip to get Obi Wan to Atlanta and get Major Tom healed.
Our shuttle driver arrived early before breakfast so we packed up quickly and got him to pick us up at our cabin. JC showed up in a 1988 Buick with the muffler starting to fail. We loaded up our backpacks in the trunk while I held my bump box in the back seat on my lap. As we drove down the curvy road toward Asheville JC told us stories about the area. We arrived at Asheville Airport where Major Tom picked up little Hyundai hatchback rental car. We squeezed our backpacks in the back and header for our first tourist destination Little Switzerland.
Obi Wan was curious of what was there. On the way we stopped at a Waffle House to share some American culture with Obi Wan and Hellcat. We then proceeded up a curvy road to our first destination. Shortly after 1 pm we arrived. The town consisted of a lodge with a restaurant and bar, another restaurant, post office and several souvenir shops. We walked through the souvenir shops and found mostly locally made crafts, we did not find any Swiss products until the last store where we found Swiss army knives made in Canada. We went to the lodge to see if we could watch the Switzerland vs Serbia World Cup game at the bar but the bar was closed. However the hostess let us in since we had the only authentic Swiss person in town with us. We were allowed to get beer from the restaurant and order lunch but other than a couple visits by the cooks we had our own private screening of the game. It was very exciting and Switzerland won the game with a goal in the last couple minutes.
After the game we got reservations to stay at a Holiday Inn half way to Atlanta in Anderson. Our hotel was very close to the home of a friend of mine named Rodney so I invited Rodney to have a beer with us. We checked into the hotel and went to the steak house next door, Rodney and his wife showed up and we shared stories and technology theories.
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