Watch for Indians
While walking along the Island Ford Road near Ninety Six, SC always be on the lookout for the Cherokee.
It’s Beginning To Look
We piled into BIL’s CX-5 and drove to downtown Hendersonville to see them light the two big Christmas Trees that flank the old Henderson County Courthouse. I brought my camera along to capture the moment when Santa flipped the switch. But I left it in the car when we pulled a last minute evacuation drill at the intersection nearest the festivities to let Allen find a parking spot. He found a spot 3 blocks away so that when we were driving back to the SMH I snapped a photo of the back of the courthouse and trees as we went by. Here is a better photo of them from 5 years ago – Twin Christmas Trees.
64,000 Calories
The community that my sister Diane and her husband live in hold a pot luck Thanksgiving meal. As we have done previously, this year we drove up again to partake in the consuming of mass quantities of the favorite holiday dishes of strangers. Everyone brings a side dish or dessert and their own place settings. This year Diane decided to just buy some Thanksgiving paper plates and “Premium” plastic dinnerware instead having to keep track of her real stuff. Five people, two trips through the buffet line, a visit to the dessert room and eight broken forks.
Just south of Clinton, SC the Purple Whale passed the 64,000 mile mark.
Notice Anything Different? – Part II
They are 1″ wide flat black accent stripes…
When I asked the folks at Charleston Wraps about my gloss black stripes as wax buffer plan, they cautioned against it. Paste wax and any vinyl is not recommended. They suggested I should get something called Wrap Care After Care JP from a company called Croftgate. So I scrapped the gloss black and ordered up some one inch wide flat black vinyl from vinylstriping.com.
I went to the Croftgate site for the recommended product and was put off by bullet point #2: Long lasting protection with a brilliant shine, so I contacted the company and asked about it. The fellow who replied said not to worry about that, as the words “brilliant shine” were aimed at the glossy wrap crowd. So I asked in return, what do you have that I could use as a wax/protectant on both the vinyl stripes and the cars paint. Frank thought that something called Wrap Care Matte & Gloss Cleaner would fit the bill.
I checked it out, and it sounded alright, but I wondered if the stuff called Wrap Care Matte & Gloss Sealant would work better for both paint and stripe. I went ahead and ordered a bottle of the Sealant product. I emailed Frank from Croftgate a thank you for your time thing and told him what I ordered. He replied, “We’ll get your order out right away and I drop a little something extra in the box for you.”
Frank came through in spades, I got a bottle of the sealant and he put a bottle of the cleaner in there too. Aannnd…a couple of their microfiber towels too. Over sixty bucks worth of stuff for my $30. Maybe this weekend I’ll get a chance to use the wrap care products and then take a nicer photo of the black accents.
It Was Right In My Wheelhouse
And I didn’t feel like writing all about it. But if you go to the Outback in Aiken, SC and Todd is your waiter…run.
MMC At The Gap
OK, this past weekend Donna and I were supposed to lead 5 cars up to western North Carolina to enjoy some twisty roads and one really, really twisty one. Well, I’ve got to stop watching the news and reading the news on the internet, because I convinced myself that the Alabama gas pipeline’s second accident, earlier in the week, would cause shortages stranding us in the mountains. So Donna and I didn’t lead a group to NC, we handed them our maps and wished them well.
Of course the shortages never materialized and we probably missed an epic weekend of Miata fun. I sent an email to all the folks who went last night, asking for a few words about the trip, but as of yet I have no replies back so I have no idea of what they did. Well, that’s not exactly true, I know they drove through the famous Deals Gap at around 9:30 AM on Saturday morning. Killboy caught them in the act:
