We intended to start earlier, but Ed had a really important business call that kept him busy until late morning. Just as well, since I wasn’t fully packed until then. I really hate packing, and I’m very bad at it.
And now we’re finding our hotel Internet connection is too poor to upload the first day’s photographs, so we can’t show you how it went. But I can recount that the day’s treats included an oldtimer’s apt license plate, gorgeous mountain views, and an amazing animal sighting.
Intrigued? Check back tomorrow and we’ll try again to bring you our report from Roadside America. For now, these hotel pillows are really coZzzzzzzzzz.
Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.