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Road Trip 2010 – Brunswick, Charlotte and Harrisonburg, VA

Had a good couple days driving.  We left the park in Brunswick and stopped by the Farmers Market to grab some grub for the road.  Murphy and I had the good fortune of meeting Del and Debra Ferguson, grass-fed cattle farmers from Georgia who had set up their booth at the market in Brunswick for the first time.

I mentioned I was on the way up to the Slow Money National Gathering and a bit about the movement and their interest was peaked to say the least.  When you talk about opening up new flows of capital to farmers and entrepreneurs in our local food system people perk up.

I picked up some pre-shaped burgers and a nice T-bone from them along with some “Devil Crab” cakes and a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade from another nice couple.  Fat and happy we hit the road and rendezvoused with Kam, Keltin, Michelle and Whit who were attending a bridal shower for Whit’s brother in law’s fiance.

It was great getting to see Keltin and Kamrin.  Even though it had only been two days I missed them and getting to hold Kelty girl and kiss my wife really did my heart good.  It was a great stop of in Charlotte as I also got to see Leigh and Kevin Mays and their little tike Tyson.

Murph and I headed north along the hilly and pastoral Hwy 81.  We set up shop in an RV park in the Shenandoa National Park and pulled the grill out to do a proper “Guys Grill Out”.  Following the “Cooking Grass Fed Beef” outline that Del gave I produced a perfectly cooked medium-rare steak.  Murphy devoured the bone like a Savannah lion and both of us just have to just say that life on the road is pretty darn good (minus the absence of the lady folk of course).

This post was written by John