The camping we found last night was really good, quiet, empty, surrounded by rocks, a nice walk around a meadow, owls and eagles calling overhead, bonus of a campfire, needed as we were high up although that also meant a chilly night in the tent. This morning Dr Fred went and played on the rocks, lovely granite tors perfect for breaking his slowly mending knee in. I wandered around the meadow path drawing flowers and the landscape.
For lunch we headed to Silver Star, liking the sound of the name but it was a fairly non existent place, we blinked and had passed through so we stopped at Twin Bridges instead, good call, fab all american diner where Dr Fred had the biggest cheese on toast ever and then we went for a wander around town. August is a good month to be having a road trip around here. We keep stumbling across local events happening, its a really different but pleasant take on small town american life. Todays find was the Madison County Country Fair - it was just like on the movies complete with kids jumping off the road bridge into the river!!!
The fair had today equivalent of a fair ground ie inflatable bouncy things for kids, but it also had a show for cows, goat, hundreds of chickens, jams, quilts, home made everything and there was to be a rodeo later.
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| bad hair day? |
It was housed on a large recreation site which had the most amazing building made out of wood with fantastic roof structure.
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| interesting wooden roof structure |
It was circular and today housed a bingo session (good old country fair) a (even I'm getting bit quilted out) quilt show, more bear stuff and some random stall by various local authority people. a bizarre and varied selection!! There were loads of sheds housing the various animals and a show going on which we couldn't find the way into, there were stalls selling cowboy hats, popcorn, t shirts and a shed with some exhibits which I think most have been done by local schools or youth groups a very haphazard collection of subject matter displayed on boards I just could't resist the information.
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| very diverse school projects??? |
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