I Hold a Goat
February 19, 2023
I wake up at 1AM. The furnace is running but making ticking noises. This is one of two things, either we have run out of propane and the ticking is the igniter trying to light the non-existent propane, or the furnace is making a ticking sound.
I choose to ignore it and pull the covers up over my head. That seems to work. At 8AM we’re still pretty warm. Ignoring problems might be a good idea here.
I have cereal and Susan has oatmeal for breakfast. This might seem odd since we just got those amazing eggs yesterday. (Ok, I’m cheating, she picked them up from the well house today but story telling and photography from yesterday have priority over accuracy today, are you following this? I’m not.) But we wanted to get on the road fast we had a tourist trap to visit plus another Harvest Host host which had pretty strict timing requirements.
But since I’m cheating, here’s a photo from a video from yesterday. We went by a field, a junkyard actually, full of old car and truck stuff. I saw a 1st generation Ford Taurus, some Model T’s, several Dodge Power Wagons and 3 “flatties,” which to the lay-person are Jeeps from the early fifties.
Speaking of personal hygiene, I normally don’t shave when traveling, it is annoying. You want to clean the razor and beard stuff gets everywhere. But on a 1-2 month trip one just must. So I went outside. I didn’t know the paparazzi was watching!
I can neither confirm nor deny that we stopped at South of the Border, the biggest tourist trap on the East Coast.
I can state, categorically, that the fried chicken was some of the best I’ve ever had and the sides, and Susan’s sides, were some of the worst. The amount of kitsch displayed was incredible. One could stay days here photographing the fiberglass displays of “taste”.
We stopped for gas, that’s such a common occurrence that I don’t normally mention but for two things. One, the first pump had Error Code 004 on it. We needed to go to a second pump. And the second thing is if only we had waited and crossed into SC we would have paid $2.99/gallon. I’ve not seen that price in forever!
We pulled into Herd it Here Farm around 4PM, we were greeted by Bill, one of the owners, who asked if I could make the 180 turn into the property. Of course I could and 30 seconds later I winged his metal gate! The gate won, the trailer fender, ok, it doesn’t look factory anymore. The good news is that the fender doesn’t hit the tire, actually, if you didn’t know you wouldn’t even notice.
But we got there just in time for feeding! That was fun to watch. There were 3 other campers here today and one had two teenagers, so they got to feed, but Susan and I loved seeing the alpacas. Susan noticed the guard llama off to the side.
These are boys, they are separated from the girls for obvious reasons. BTW, if the girl doesn’t like the boy she spits on him!
This is Heloise. He’s a rooster, not a chicken. Oops. I forget the variety, but he’s Polish. Cool!
This harvest host site eventually had 5 campers. The host made a large fire, sat and told stories, listened to stories, then head off to bed since the animals needed tending to tomorrow morning.
Oh, and I held a goat!
Daily: 237 miles.
Total 1,108.
Miles/Day: 277