Amos BBQ and Johnny Unitas; Alabama Travelogue weekend of Nov 12 Turkey Trot

        Took a two night trip to Bama this last weekend to hit the annual Turkey Trot in Collinsville Alabama and check on the house. Also hit what I could including Bill Glenn's Mtn Grill pristine catfish and potato salad, Lupe's China House Hot and sour soup, and the chicken fingers and home concocted Ranch dressing the best ever.

   Had a first time chic fil a Bacon egg and cheese. On way to Bama in a dank Drizzle stopped by Culver's on 400 West of Gaineville, but a highlight was coming home. I rarely function without lunch by 1:30 but left Bammer later than planned and kep traveling. Was about four oclock when I stopped at Amos BBQ on 369 West of the Matt Community and East of Madeconia outside Canton. Its just couple hundred yards east the Circle intersection coming down from Ball Play.

    Had notice it sixty times of more over the last 20 years going and coming from SC. Things always looked promising with half a forest of split hickory in the front yard and rustic setting. The ambience is perfect, got a sandwich with slaw to go. Very very good, I will be stopping again.

     Had a great chat there with a dentist from Decatur about Forsyth County and politics. He wrote down Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root.

     My Lookout  Mtn cousins were very kind to offer their cabin for two nights which was quite an adventure and eighty mile round trip for two night but worth it. Was great being out in a forest on top of Lookout not far from Where Sherman took the Battle of Chicamauga and Chattanooga, in a heavy rain about two in the morning and a roof over your head.

      Had good conversations at the Trot and just missed Jane Peek's Red Velvet cake by one step in the Cakewalk. Told Terah Coker Patton and good joke, and had delightful exchange with Thomas Barksdale and Jeff Graves. My friend Brenda Monteagudo was in the tax office and couldnt come out.

     Note Historian Wayne Flynt will be in Collinsville at the Cricket Theater April 16 to talk about his friendship with Atticus and Harper Lee and her sister Alice.

     I plan to be there.

     But icing on the weekend cake since Ole Miss lost in the last seconds to Bama--saw that in Los Amigos in Toccoa Ga before getting to Clemson just in time for Game Day Traffic and a chat with number 44 at Five Guys who supposedly is reading my blog on Tackle football--Icing on the cake was conversation Sunday in the sunlight at Ingles Deli, Liberty South Carolina.

     A gregarious fellow was talking with a fellow worker who I was chatting with when a Young fundamentalist offered me a pamphlet on the Romans 8 road to Salvation. I had her call her Mother come over and concede a lot of Christians didnt vote for Trump. She did and asked me if I was a Christian. She said yes which was kind of surprising....

    I shoulda told her about Shoemaker's new book on Baptism or demanded her church lyberry get one if I was to read her pamphlet.

     But the gregarious fellow turned out to have a raising in the Peninsula of Maryland. As such not far from Harper's Ferry and John Brown's Raid, his thoughts on the Civil War were bent a little sideways. But we got passed that and somehow Johnny Unitas name came up. He said He caught some passes for Johnny U the authentic GOAT. I told him he was lying. He said no he wasnt' as a nine year ole Jiffy Lube had a promotion in his small Md town and hardly nobody showed up to see Johnny Unitas. So the Great one threw this fellow eight or nine passes.

     I took his picture and told him about another friend who had eight super rings on his hands at one time in Nashville, Tn.