Friday morning we headed out of Hotlanta and said goodbye to all the fam.
The road between Atlanta and St Louis is pretty boring so I dont have many pics even though nate drove most of the way. Nate did a great job driving, by the way. He only stalled 4 times.
This is the most interesting thing we saw on the first half of the road.
Later we stopped at Burger King to fuel up for some climbing. I found out that my Double Whopper with Cheese had only 1010 calories. YUM!
We stopped an hour past Chattanooga at a SCENEic little climbing spot named Foster Falls.
We needed to make sure we didn't get lost so nate looked up directions on his computer back in Hotlanta. We had no way of printing them so we snapped a pic with my camera.
After enjoying the view for a bit, we got to the fun stuff. Nate knew of a few sport climbs so we strapped up and and went for it. After a few tries, Nate led a 5.10a (then I followed on toprope) aptly named "Tea and Strumpets" - a reference to the american classic "Dumb and Dumber". It's an intellectual comedy about two young chaps leaving their small hometown in the Northeast to explore the great American West.
It was a super sweet climb, but we had to run as St. Louis was still another 6 hours away.
The rest of the drive was pretty uneventful, which was actually nice because it allowed me to catch up on this blog writing. We did manage to snap a few more SCENE photos.
Photo by Nate
We arrived in St. Louis around 9pm and were immediately treated to a delicious dinner prepared by my brother Matt and his wife Katie. After a few local brews we headed to bed in anticipation of all that St. Louis had to offer tomorrow.
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