There is something magical about the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Cashiers-Highlands area of western North Carolina is known for cool summer days and beautiful mountain vistas, as well as numerous private clubs providing high quality event facilities. Just down the curvy mountain road from this "Roof Garden of the Southeast" (3 miles from Cashiers), is the village of Sapphire NC.
Last Saturday night we performed at a reception in the new Country Club of Sapphire Valley. The reception folks enjoyed the band and the management was impressed enough to hire us for their New Years Eve bash. So the gig went well and we will be going back. However, around midnight, when it was time to make the two hour drive back to Atlanta the weather had turned absolutely torrential. The narrow, twisty and steep mountain roads turned into a nightmare for tired drivers.
I phoned Coy HQ (home) and Rachel gave me the storm tracker info from the regional radar and mapped out an alternate route out of the mountains. I might need to get wireless internet through my cell phone so I don't have to wake up my family in the middle of the night the next time this happens.
Posted by dancoy at August 1, 2005 10:15 AM