BFF Reunion

 Today we continued to drive ahead of Hurricane Ian and left South Carolina.  South Carolina is preparing  for a Cat 1 Hurricane Ian. During the day the sky was blue and nearly cloudless.  It was only 250 miles from Columbia to  just south of Rocky Mountain NP where my best friend Cheryl Thomas lives.  We have not seen each other for over 50 years and for the last three years have  been trying to find a time and way to meet.  Part of the route to her home took us on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  It was a beautiful day to be driving 45 MPH over mountains and around curvy roads.

Here we are best friends since 1961.  We survived high school together...we are Mary Freeman Mulvany and Cheryl Burgess Thomas.  

Cheryl and Her husband Bob live just outside Smoky Mountain National Park.  These steps lead to the Appalachian Trail.

We enjoyed meeting Cheryl's six rescue cats and seeing the mountain she lives on.  We got caught up with each others lives .  We decided it was probably at least 50 years since we had seen each other.  Cheryl had been inviting us to her home  but when we go to Florida, we are usually in the motorhome and there is no way we could get the motorhome up her driveway.  When we ended up driving our car, we were able to make that visit possible.  It was a sweet reunion.