OUR FIRST TRIP TO KNOXVILLE (Mark)

We decided to take a short trip to Knoxville, Tennessee, as Cheri had a quilt show she wanted to see.  We decided to take the Mini Cooper rather than the travel trailer and truck.  As we settled into the AirBnB I was watching the clouds build up to the east of us.

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We reserved a cute little place.

The next morning the little cabin we had rented looked like this.

The reason the room was so arranged is about 10:30 PM Cheri said she thought she heard water, and boy was she right. The water was flowing in under both the front and side doors.  I spent the next two hours moving and stacking furniture, and pushing water back out of the cabin using a broom.

Those clouds had parked over the top of us and delivered between 1 1/2” and 2” rain in an hours’ time.  The trip had turned into more of an adventure than we first thought it would be.

While Cheri saw the quilt show, I meandered.

This mail box alone would have been enough to get me to stop to take a picture.  But it happened to be the mailbox for something interesting, a real bonus.

This piece of property is actually currently for sale.

I doubt the old style pumps still have any ethyl for sale, but I did not actually check them to see.  I have always liked the gravity-style pumps, which move the number of gallons you want to buy into the top glass tank, then watch it flow into the car.

When traveling with Cheri you can be sure of her awareness of where the nearest architectural salvage shop will be.

For a photographer it does mean you will have lots of subjects posing for pictures.

And since I like texture and history the salvage yards generally deliver.

Appendix from Cheri . . . wish I had taken a picture of the poster from a concert which had Carlos Santana, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez all on the same bill!  (Probably in 1984.  If you check Google, it was a pretty unhappy experience, for Baez, at least.)