It was October of 1996. A fine fall weekend to leave Richmond behind in search of something wilder and colder. Ryan and I left the city late afternoon and were cruising down the Blue Ridge Parkway before long. We watched grand sunsets and grew hungry by Roanoke where we pulled off the road at an unusually fancy restaurant for the middle of nowhere where I dined on fliet mignon with crawfish in a cream sauce on top, and I don't know what he ate. By midnight we were atop Grandfather Mtn outside Boone, NC where he headed to the backseat and we both stretched out for a night's slumber in the Buick as was our tradition. In the morning we hiked at Linville Falls where they filmed "Last of the Mohicans" and then began our route home by crossing into Tennessee and cutting up into VA near Damascus. We got on 58 East which took us through Grayson County along the border. We stopped at the general store above to get snickers and pepsis. While inside we heard a long bearded man say "I wouldn't have shot the dogs if I'd known they were the boys." Outside as we pulled away, we couldn't help but notice two dogs walking around on the roof of the building. It was a fine trip.
And that, Eb, is why you are the man! Love your uncanny ability to recall!
ReplyDeleteThose dogs on the roof were something.
I've been listening alot to Gideon Gaye by the High Llamas, recently, and if you still have it, lend it a close ear. That album is total genius.
I love that song "Oh she said...this conversation's dead..."
ReplyDeletetruly beautiful mellow songs.
It's playing now. I love how that redundant riff goes on for about fifteen minutes . . .
ReplyDeleteGotta love the 'flute rock'.
ReplyDeleteResolved-all songs should be at least 13 minutes long.
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