Saturday 13th Sept - A visit to the boondocks!

In the morning we went our separate ways, Christine and Susan on a tour of quilt shops whilst Jim and I headed down to a local chandlery - West Marine, which was not too far away. The chandlery was a bit of a disappointment as it's stock was surprisingly much smaller than most in the UK and it catered for more for motor boats than yachts. Not really surprising considering we were about 250 miles from the nearest sea! In the afternoon we all headed off into the countryside north west of Atlanta to visit one of Christine's old quilting buddies, Joy Smith. She and Rick live by the river Etowa between Cartersville and Euharlee, way out in the country, but in a pleasant bungalow with a good size garden and deck overlooking the river. Rick demonstrated his kayak which had an inboard petrol engine driving a jet ski style water thruster - quite unique! After a country style meal of ribs and salad we headed back to civilisation!