We hadn’t planned on doing much of anything today and the only reason we really had to go out was to return some movies that we had picked up yesterday. So after a lazy morning we decided to drive into Hohenwald to the Walmart to go to the Redbox. We took the 20 as that’s the quickest way from where we are – what a mistake. Turns out this is the weekend of the garage sale and a drive that should have taken us about 20 minutes took us more than twice that long. All along the 20 there were people selling everything under the sun from their garages and car boots, and off table. It was chaos with people everywhere and cars crawling along the road. I wasn’t real happy and Mike was even less so. Then when we got to the Walmart the Redbox was out of order and we couldn’t find the McDonalds that supposedly had a Redbox that Nell was trying to get us to; it didn’t help that half the streets in Hohenwald were closed off for some kind of performance.
We did eventually find McDonalds and returned the movies, then we got out of town as fast as possible in the opposite direction to the one we’d come in on. Since we are leaving here in the morning Mike wanted to get gas this afternoon. After looking in Nell we discovered that the route we were on didn’t have an gas stations (can you believe it), so we had to drive about 20 miles out of our way just to get gas. All in all not a very productive jaunt.
The lady in the RV next to us asked if we’d visited the garage sales when we got back and she just got glares from both of us. She was very sweet, if a bit odd, her and her husband were cutting and racking the grass around their motor home. Turns out they have two very white puppies that they didn’t want to get dirty so they were just doing a bit of tidying. She asked me where Mike and me had met – I wonder what she was thinking?
The rest of the afternoon was spent washing the front end of Serena – she sure knows how to pick up every bug going, and generally just getting ready to move on again in the morning.

Mike: I don’t thing the people in the “South” ever throw anything away, they just put it on the roadside to sell!