DAY 10-NO MILES TRAVELED!!!!

9/26 Slept in. Pancakes and sausage. Heaven...... Happy birthday to Nancy's dad, Tom, and to our daughter-in-law Emily. Hope you're both having a wonderful day.Walked up in the parking lot where a couple was selling fruits and vegetables. Bought a few things, including their "cure all" salve. He’s a certified herbologist. He was an older gentleman and told us how his mother had been a Cherokee Indian and his father was a farmer and a farmocologist, before they spelled it with “phar”. Found out that the fruit on the persimmon tree is what is used for catfish bait. It contains alum and you drop the persimmon fruit in the water and it will permeate the water with the alum and this attracts catfish. Go figure. But once frost comes, these same fruits are harvested and eaten by the people as the frost make the fruit like butterscotch pudding on the inside and is said to be delicious. After breakfast, Brad signed out one of the courtesy vans. Van #4. And we were on our way to Paducah. After taking on supplies we headed back to Green Turtle Bay. 12 miles short of there, van #4 broke down. Thank goodness for cell phones. The resort sent someone to rescue us, but in the meantime, we made the best of things.









Here is Billy Brad, the mechanic who stopped to help us. Any similarity to Brad's backside is purely coincidental. Teri and I decided to break into the provisions while we waited for help. Ross just shook his head over the whole deal.