We slept in today and then went for a nice walk after breakfast. We departed shortly after 11AM EDT hoping to hit Atlanta in the early afternoon to avoid rush hour traffic. Apparently rush hour in Atlanta no longer ends and it took us quite a while to get through. Now I know why my parents take US-82 out of Tifton, GA over to US-280 and catch I-65 near Birmingham, AL. My wife assures me that we will try that in the future.
We are spending the night at the Cracker Barrel in Ringgold, GA (just south of Chattanooga, TN). Since we always eat breakfast at Cracker Barrel, we decided to give supper a try. The restaurant was packed and we had a short wait before being seated. Beth ordered the Chicken Pot Pie and I tried the new Hand Battered Fried Chicken Tenders with my usual order of Hash-brown Casserole. The kitchen was so busy they ran out of Chicken Pot Pie and without notifying our waitress they decided to make one by hand. Beth had already taken her insulin and 45 minutes later we still didn’t have our food. I thought sure I was going to get to test out the emergency insulin pen. Fortunately, I was able to get our waitress to bring us some orange juice. The food came shortly after but we all know how scorching hot a chicken pot pie is when it arrives. Beth’s tongue should heal in a week or so. Other than that, it was a good meal.