Sorting More Than Laundry : Lake Lure Trip - Day 8

From the travel journal:

(Cara) - 8:45 AM - It's raining again as we load the car and set off. Kelly is driving. She has her CD picked and once again she is winding her way around the curves of Lake Lure. The mood is more somber than our first day, but for the most part, everyone is ready to get back home. Well, Kelly and I could have stayed longer or at least taken a day or two to return home.

We dropped off the keys at the management building. I asked about whether or not they had found out if our unit had been entered without our knowledge, but the girl behind the desk just shrugged and told me she had "heard something about it", but she had no answers. Oh, well.

2:00 PM - We have hit rain most of the way home. Not so much stop and go traffic, but there is quite a bit of heavy traffic. Several idiots are driving without their lights on in the rain which makes driving a tad tricky, but Kelly and I are managing quite nicely.

Krista had an episode at one of the stops we made. She was pumping gas when a guy in a Hummer pulled up to the pump beside her. He wanted to know how much gas mileage the van got, but she told him she wasn't the owner of the vehicle. He continued asking her questions and inferred that he would love to buy her a Hummer. She smiled and drove off, parking the van next to the building where we were all inside.

He then pulled up next to her and asked if she was a Steelers fan (I have a Steelers license plate rim). She reminded him again that the van wasn't hers, but yes, she was a fan. She walked into the building. Later while standing in line to get food, the man appeared with a woman this time.

Figuring that this was his wife, Krista attempted to strike up a conversation with him regarding his Hummer, etc. He flushed and tried to act like he didn't know her or didn't know why she was talking to him. Krista enjoyed that immensely. "Pisses me off when men do that," she said.

9:30 PM - We are back and everyone is safely at home. The van made it. We made it. I took 355 pictures. A fine trip indeed.

Favorite Part of the Trip