Ah the joys of driving for six hours in the rain. Starting in Bristol, Virginia and crossing into Tennessee and then into North Carolina and finally Georgia. I remembered that our last visit to the Smoky Mountains was in similar weather. At least this time we weren't trying to camp out.
We arrived in Atlanta in time for appetizers and a lovely Shabbat dinner with my brother Larry, sister-in-law Suzie, their son Aaron, his wife Niki and their son Eli. It was good to be enveloped by family at the end of a long day.