Day 3 - Sunday 9/17

I started the day by going down to look at my car in daylight. Not a good way to start off the day


Maybe a slightly better view of the dent in daylight.

After we looked at the car, everyone was walking around deciding what they where going to do and where they where going to go for the day. We too where trying to decide as we did not have a car. Through talking to people we ran into Jim & Judy Ebens.

They said they where not going to need their car for the day and where kind enough to let us drive it. Judy was having migrains and the sun agrivates them. So she was not going to go out and drive around. Jim decided to ride with Sal as a passenger which left their car free.

We where very happy to have a car and could not thank them enough as it helped to save a day of our vacation. otherwise we would have had to sit around the lodge with nothing to do all day. We started the day driving with the group on a short tour. Then the group decided to split and go do different things. Once we split, we around on the search for small roads and have more fun driving. The other group was going to go visit some local attractions. We decided we came to drive and that was what we where going to do :) I didn’t get many pictures today because I left the camera In my car as it was a suprise we where going to get to borrow a car. So we where not really prepared when we left, but Sue had hers. So the following where pictures she took. Actually some of the pictures of the previous day where pictures she took. I guess that is obvious as there are pictures of my car driving, and it would be hard to do that when I was in the car LOL


Here you can see us in "Splash Green" (the first car in the picture)...the car we got to borrow for the day :)


The overlook at The Gap


Here is a video of us driving Splash through part of The Gap heading towards The Crossroads. The was shot from a camera over the car, so there is a lot of wind noise which means you will want to turn your sound down some. (14.3mg)


This one is the end of The Gap passing The Crossroads heading towards Tapoco Lodge. The was shot from a camera over the car, so there is a lot of wind noise which means you will want to turn your sound down some. (8.6mg)


Coming back to North Carolina


Fontana Dam Overlook


The cars at the overlook

Once we got back to the Crossroads of Time we put gas in the car so we could return the car with a full tank. As we where doing that, we met a fellow who was putting gas in his bike. Pat started to talk to him and found out he lived just a couple of miles down the road from her. That’s pretty crazy. He even remembers her house because of seeing the Miata’s and AutoX van in her front yard. Who would expect that?

After filling up, Dan decided he wanted to drive through the gap. So I road down with him & got to drive back. 

As we returned to the lodge, Kevin and Dianna where going for ice cream again. We wanted to go but did not have a car, so we couldn’t go. This time Hank Barta lent us use his car as he was not going. So we got ice cream, and I got to drive 3 different Miata's within an hour. Gotta like our club :)

As we where getting ready to go to bed Hank’s son Henry said Jim & Judy told him to let us know we could borrow their car again tomorrow for the same reason. Again another day of our vacation was saved and it was turning out to be a little more of a normal vacation than it could have been considering.


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