“Best place in the country.”

That is what Mr. Tent had to say about it.

There is something about the South.

William Faulkner.

Mark Twain.

Mr. Sean Dietrich.

Writers & Borbon Brewers.

Pecan pie & fried chicken.

The first trip I remember to the South, it was my mother taking me to visit my Grandpa Bill & Aunt Edith & Babe. Those were very Special trips for me.

I remember a Friday after school, after going to the school library (this must have been the fifth grade) & I got my two favorite books on snakes.

My brother & my sister in the van… packing food for the drive.

Now: the other Souther venture would be Vacations in Florida.

But I’ll wait to write about that some other time.

The pigs & goats & chickens need fed.