Day 6
Ken led the ride today and while we had nothing specific
to see or visit we had a great day of riding some wonderful back roads. We traveled up and over mountains, around
mountains, past jagged rocks, passed fields of wild flowers and pastures of
various farm animals. The roads today
required me to be alert and rock and roll with the beat of the road. There are a lot of tobacco barns in this area
many filled with tobacco hanging to dry.
I was not aware that many workers suffer with nicotine poisoning after
cutting, spearing and hanging the tobacco.
Dinner was at Wilma’s a little restaurant downtown that was filled to
capacity with our 21 people and the food was great home cooking. Price was right at $5.95 for the buffet. Then off we went to “Front Porch Pickin”
which was great entertainment for a buck.
About 5 local groups played Bluegrass music while the locals danced
their hearts out. Reminded me of the
country line dancing at the Moose on Friday nights I attended a few years
back. Everyone knew everyone, sold 50/50
tickets, and danced line dances, clogging and some 2 step. Some with cowboy boots, some with sneakers
and some with taps on their shoes for the clogging. Some were very good and others were not but
they didn’t care everyone was smiling. It
was great fun – just had a little trouble understanding their strong southern
accent. Bernie seemed to understand because
he was singing right along with them. Kathy
and I tried our hand at the twist but I quickly found out my sandals stick to
the floor with their rubber soles and you cannot do much glued to the
floor. But it gave a few others the
courage to get up and dance which I guess is my role as president of this group
– lead by example. LOL
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