Siri, You Are Drunk!

I swear between Siri's navigating or the Ford navigational system, it's better to just put the electronics away and travel old school by using the placement of the sun. Today Siri, while trying to take us to a diner for breakfast, instead sent us to on a wild goose chase through backwoods Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama this morning. I swear I heard banjos.

When we left the hotel this morning, we wanted to find a diner for breakfast instead of having hotel food. Ford's system kept taking us to diners that didn't exist, or if they did every one of them were closed. We finally found one that was open before noon, but didn't get there til noon. Apparently, you can't get anything to eat around here until after church let's out.

Once we got back on the road, we followed more twisty, curvy, hilly, squirrelly roads that made my stomach drop and my heart stop on occasion. It was absolutely beautiful country, but it is not for the impatient or hurried. If the terrain didn't do it, the signage and ads let us know we aren't in Kansas anymore. One place, a gun club, had a sign that read "pistols? We got em! Come on y'all!" And that's just one example of the snorts that came out of Pop.

At this point, we have finished what we could of the Cherokee Trail. So we headed South and have stopped in Auburn, AL to stay with family before we explore our family's origin spot in Tallassee and Tuskegee. The family we are staying with tonight are both professors at Auburn and have friends who our quest is their field, so we'll try to meet up and learn something. From there, we expect to head to to Horseshoe Bend and then Fort Mitchell where the Creek Trail started or so we think. Hopefully, tomorrow will be our most educational.

So until next time...