READER DAVID STERN EMAILS: "Nine midday hours without a post -- are you okay? Your fans are concerned."
Heh. Yes, I'm okay. Had a free day (or at least, a day I could free) and decided to give my mind and body, which are suffering from different kinds of repetitive stress, a break. Took a long, camera-toting drive up US 27 and Tennessee 52 to Rugby, then came back on 62 past Frozen Head and through Oak Ridge. More blogging later.
UPDATE: Okay, actually it's photo-blogging. You can see photographs and commentary in this gallery I set up over at the Exposure Manager site.
ANOTHER UPDATE: D'oh! No sooner did I link than the site stopped. I don't know if it was the traffic or just a coincidence, but I'm taking the link down for now. Sorry. You can see smaller versions of a couple of pictures here and here.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Taking the link down didn't make an immediate difference, but it seems to be working now, so I'll put the link to the gallery back up. Cross your fingers!
Later: Everything's working fine.
MORE: Boy, you never know who's reading InstaPundit, as reader Joe Jones emails:
Thanks for posting the picts of Morgan County. I grew up in Sunbright (in fact, you drove between my parents' house and my Grandmothers' when you went through on US27) and I don't get back up there often enough - so the pictures are a real treat.
The man in the photos in R.M. Brooks Store in Rugby is my uncle, Bill Jones. His In-Laws used to own the place and Verda (Brooks) ran it until she passed away several years ago. Bill and Linda also own a bed and breakfast (Grey Gables) not very far from the store. If nothing else, I highly recommend going there for a meal. While I admit that I haven't been there in a while, the meals have always been wonderful. Honest truth here...I'm not above disparaging a family member's cooking. Seriously, they have always been excellent cooks --family dinners were always good...
mmmmmm).
You should try to get back up that way during the Fall when the leaves are changing. The first time I went to the Smokies I wondered what all the fuss was about. Morgan, Scott, and Fentress counties were much more colorful.
