Mission Accomplished!

Last night Woody got online and found a Korean grocery store in Knoxville. It happened to be right off the interstate...easy off and easy on (high priority for Woody when traveling on an interstate!). And, we found the soy beans for our French Market Soup bean mix...so we managed to find all the hard-to-find items for that mix on our trip. All our extra excursions on this trip involved grocery stores! We found a couple of other interesting items at this store that we also bought to try. This was a really nice, good-sized grocery store...just like you or I would shop in...except...not many items in this store would you find at Kroger or Safeway, etc. We got our lunch at this store...a Vietnamese Barbecue Pork sandwich. It was really pretty good...our new food experience of the trip!

We left Fort Chiswell, VA this morning around 6:45 Central time and arrived home around 1:30pm Central time. We drove the 350 mile trip in rain just about the whole way. It was good to pull back into our driveway...well, we really pulled into our neighbor's (Nathan and Kathy's) driveway, as the leaf vacuum truck was in front of our driveway...but across the street. They told Woody that they would be back in the morning around 6:30am to get the rest of the leaves that had been raked to the road on our side of the street. Woody went to the grocery store after we got home to pick up the rest of the beans, etc. that we needed for the French Market Soup mix and also a few other items for the coming week. He picked up an over-the-counter med for me...but got the wrong kind. So after we got the groceries put away, he and I went back and returned the wrong one and got the right one.

Well, guess I'll go downstairs and get the French Market Soup beans soaking so we can make our first pot of the season tomorrow. This soup is one of those that has about 13 different dried beans/lentils/peas/barley in it...so that means 13 pounds of dried beans, etc...this mix lasts a long time...many pots of soup at 3 cups of the mix per pot!