Hey Delights!
Alrighta… sorry to keep you in suspense, but the recap of this adventure felt like it was getting too long for one post, so I decided at the last minute to break it up into two parts.
Get into part 1 here.
We left off with me actually enjoying the seemingly never ending winding road of the 60 miles along the Suches Loop.
Also, fun fact about me. I generally will always take the non highway route somewhere when I can. So, I left pretty early because I was going to go the the Ponce City Market while I waited for Joe’s bus to arrive and I took the street route to Atlanta.
I arrived in Atlanta and saw some interesting messages cross my screen from Joe, so I pulled over into the parking lot across from Ponce City to see what was going on.
I call Joe and find out that basically the bus left her at one of the stops because she went off somewhere and her phone did not update the time zone.🥴
And of course I was like WTF? How do you get left at a bus station? And then I go to start the car to head over to the mall while she tries to figure out how to get the rest of the way and the car won’t start.😩
Needless to say, this was not my ideal situation but when I thought about what it could have been?
The car is a rental so I called Hertz and a tow truck eventually arrives and he can’t jump it so he has to take me to get another car.
And it turns out that the only place I can get another car is the airport.
So as someone who lived in Atlanta for a hot minute years ago, the one thing I know is that the expressway traffic gets crazy there. And so of course there was an accident.
We finally get to some Hertz location where they told the tow guy to take the car and I was like why are we here when I need to get a new car?
But finally I am taken where I need to be so I can use the bathroom & get a new car.
Meanwhile Joe has no luck getting an Uber or Lyft driver to take the trip to Atlanta so I end up having to drive an hour & 45 minutes to Chattanooga, TN to get her.
To say it was annoying and some super intense conversations were had is putting it mildly.
Anyway, it’s almost dark by the time I reach her. She takes over the driving and I tell her basically what the road is like in Suches and that if she doesn’t think she can do it, to let me know now (she doesn’t see well at night sometimes) because it’s gonna be pitch black and I at least have driven it twice now, so I can do it.
Eventually she agrees, so we gas up and set off with me behind the wheel.
I can laugh at it now but at the time, it was not funny.
For one I was tired and sleepy after the crazy day of unexpected real life twist and turns.
And two, I had more than surpassed my desired drive time for the day.
But I am ME. I am truly a Taurus and will charge ahead and just make things happen when I truly have to.
So the whole ride before we reach the infamous stretch, I am amping myself up.
You got this. You got this.
Just follow the line. Just follow the line.
So, we reach it and it starts out rather tame and increasingly gets more precarious as we go along. But I am hugging the wheel like it’s my last lifeline while I hit the curves and turns and dips and all the while, Joe is looking like a deer in headlights.
I guess she thought that perhaps I was over exaggerating when I told her what the road was like.🥴
Anyway, the next day was my birthday and the day we were heading back out to Kentucky and Joe said she was holding on for dear life the whole ride last night.
And we just laughed and laughed as we headed out to the sunlit Suches Loop feeling way more relaxed and ready to take it on.
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