8:27; A call from Gregory. He’s wondering when we are getting on the road.  Shortly we tell him. First another trip to the acupuncturist.  Ah, sweet relief. 

Needles and pins. Needles and pins.  Is that a song?  Anyway, this is helping and since the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky has taken it upon itself to punish law abiding citizens who need a very benign pain medication that some yahoos have abused in the past, this is our option. 

1:30, heading for paradise. Here’s a picture 

That be the caretaker of said paradise.  Hot day.  

5:30, dinner from Bojangles!!!!  Woohoo!  

Almost worth leaving Kentucky for. But you gotta so if you’re heading south you gotta stop at the Bojangles.  

I think there is a dog, dragon and banana headed alien in these clouds followed by a picture of the temple of DOT in Pikeville, KY.  

Virginia 

Tennessee then the “Blue Smoke” mountains of North Carolina as they were called by the Cherokee.  

It was a lovely day for travel. We got as far as Columbia, SC stopping at an Econolodge for the night. Still have a few miles to go tomorrow.  

Good night and God bless.