We find beautiful fall foliage on Route 311 with its interesting switchbacks and tiny towns. We pass through one short underpass where the road has separate passes side by side. We have the nice stone side, the opposite direction has a metal culvert. A bit later on we see a stunning brick edifice that must have been a boarding dormitory for a girls' school. It is abandoned but still in good looking condition.
The rain slows us down some but it adds to the mystique of the mountain. Donny gives me the car about halfway down. It is tedious driving, but not harrowing.
We arrive at Suzanne's around 3 and 'check in'. Her house is in an older neighborhood with nice yards and turn of the century mid size homes. Most are being kept up well. There is a community business neighborhood about two blocks away that has a great movie theater and a useful assortment of shops. Her good friend Carol and her family live about four blocks away.
We have called Kenny while on the road about joining us for dinner. We get back up with him now and he and Penny will meet us at a mid point restaurant around 7. We get our tour of the house and freshen up. David comes in from work and we all pile into our car with Suzanne driving. It is still raining, they say this is the third day. As much as they are happy about having rain, they say enough is enough.
We have a great dinner and conversations with Kenny & Penny. After dinner Donny & I try to get Suzanne and David to go see Across the Universe which is showing at their local theater but David has a party to go to (cute guy will be there) and Suzanne is tired. She promises to take David this weekend.
Suzanne gives us her bed as she is worried about Donny fitting in her guest bed and it also has iffy slats which have already fallen out earlier today. We help her get them situated and we all settle in for the evening.
This morning Suzanne tells us the slats slide in the night and luckily the three kittens she has sequestered in the guest room were on the bed with her not under it. She just rolled over and went back to sleep, after a few choice word actually.
We are meeting the gang at Busch Gardens for fun this evening and more fun tomorrow with the kips.
Your back on the east coast gal.
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