Traveling with the Grobmyers Day 2 July 1, 2025

 It’s July 1st and you know what that means? It’s closer to….football season!!! I know you were thinking I was going to say Christmas. The only thing other than Christmas that I count down is football season. I found out today it is about 49 days. So today is all about football.

We left Helen this morning and meandered our way down two lane roads through small towns. We commented that we don’t always take the most direct route but it usually s interesting.  We saw neat small towns with pretty old homes and more American flags. We saw murals on walls and a few barn quilts too. 

First stop today was Clemson, South Carolina home to the Clemson Tigers. Too much orange for our taste but they do have a neat stadium. We can add Memorial Stadiums to our list now.

Now if you watch Clemson football games you might have heard of Howard’s rock. In the 60’s some alumni brought this rock back from Death Valley California and gifted it to Coach Frank Howard. He initially used it as a doorstop. Later it was moved to the top of “The Hill”. Then the tradition of players rubbing the rock for luck as they ran down to the field. The rock was moved to this location in 67. 

Now they had these cool paw prints painted on the road around campus. I really wish we had elephant paw prints around Tuscaloosa.

We looked for Dabo around campus and didn’t see him but we did find this statue of the Tiger. 

And yes we wore crimson today.

We found a visitor’s center and it is orientation time. Lots of sad looking parents and apprehensive teens. They had these cool rings outside. 

And an orange baby grand. 

Leaving Clemson we hit the interstate which made it seem if we were moving faster but a lot less interesting things to see.

Cue “Sandstorm”

For those that might not watch South Carolina football they play the song “Sandstorm” as the players are entering the stadium. I’ve heard it has registered on the Richter scale. Shane Beamer didn’t come out to meet us either. I felt sure he would want to talk with me about the upcoming season.

We walked around the stadium and it was very nice. They are doing some work to get ready for the season. We did get a Roll Tide while we were there.

They have this area around the stadium with cabooses that they use for tailgating. It seems like a great place to be on Saturdays in the fall.

We then met some friends for lunch at Pawley’s Front Porch. Then we checked out a couple local stores Joe found and was interested in. After that we headed to the hotel.

Tomorrow we head south and check something else off out list. See you tomorrow.

Traveling with the Grobmyers Day 1 June 30,2025

Yes we are on the road again. We are headed to the ACGHS erector show in Pennsylvania. You know us we always make a trip out of it. We are taking a different route this time and I hope you will follow along with us. I think we have some fun places to share with you along the way.

This morning we took the scenic route and drove through Mentone and lots of other small towns along the way. Many of these towns had their flags already out for the 4th and one town had flags along the road with signs with a soldier’s name and the war they fought in. It is really nice seeing all these flags flying. It sure beats seeing all the kudzu along the way. 

We left early this morning. First stop was Buc-ee’s on Union Grove Rd in the middle of north Georgia. Looks like the beaver is ready for the 4th.

Next stop Cleveland not Ohio but Georgia. Guess what we found here… The Cabbage Patch Kids hospital. We came here about 30 years ago and it has moved to this nice big location. 

They have a short little display of some of their earlier CPK. It was a neat place and lots of nurses are around to answer questions.

We saw a cabbage patch birth while we were there.

The Grinch and Snoopy need some help driving Santa’s sleigh.

That was a nice stop and a fun experience. If you have littles it would be worth the drive over.

Back in the car for the short little hop and skip over to Helen. This is our stopping point for the night. We got here early enough to walk around a little bit and find a good German place for dinner. It was. It very crowded today. One of the clerks said the weekends are very crowded. 

I found a Christmas shop of course.

We had dinner at The Heidelberg. It was very good German food. We were too full to try the Apple strudel which we really wanted to try.

A few pictures of town.

Our last stop of the day was this antique store. It was closed when we drove through but open onthe way to the hotel. I like the paintings on the building.

Here are some of the pretty flowers I saw today. Some are from the Cabbage Patch Hospital and some from Helen.

And like from our trip to Hawaii here is our chicken if the day.

We will be back on the road again tomorrow. We have a couple of I think neat stops along the way. Stay tuned.