Ready for a good night’s rest and head on down to S.C…

First, let me recap our day for you and give you some highlights!

12 Bones Smokehouse.
Words can’t express the great food that all of us had there today.
The walls are filled with trivia from past customers.
We added our mark also:)
Outstanding staff at 12 Bones BBQ here in Asheville, North Carolina!
Spread the word!
Lines form to order, and then all sit down in a homey dining room or at a picnic table outside or JUST TAKE HOME!
There is a special take out section to avoid lines forming in the dining room.
Service is extremely efficient, individualized, and also derved up with Southern Hospitality!
Thank you folks; your customer service is impeccable! Fine-tuned, with evidently a lot of practice!
Cookbooks and hot sauce bought from the staff on the right, and were treated with graciousness and big smiles from all of them.
All of the staff work hard to make your time there pleasant.
The food cannot be beat!

Check out the online menu, and decide what you want before you get there, because decisions are hard, but they are very patient .
You can find the menu at 12 Bones Smokehouse, Ashville, North Carolina online.
There is a 12 Bones rack of ribs that you can buy if you are super hungry.

We all shared pulled pork and pulled chicken, collard greens, jalapeno cheese grits, corn pudding, cornbread and plenty of unsweetened iced tea.
The captain was on his way to finishing his plate before I got the picture, and Navigator was still running around taking pictures of everyone and writing on the wall!
A tale I must share is that Pineapple Bag preferred Hardee’s, 2 chili hot dogs!
As you can see there’s that chili dog sack that holds the remains of the Southern chili dogs Pineapple Bag wanted, and if you’re wondering what the plant is, it is a transplanted Oregon Grape, two cuttings for my sister from Captain and I.
It stayed in the back of the pickup during 18° weather, having forgotten to take it in, and it has still developed two new shoots, although the old leaves are crumbling. The captain has a special touch with transplant cuttings!
From Oregon with love from the Captain and The Navigator’s, and Pineapple Bag’s yard.
As we get ready to leave Asheville North Carolina late morning tomorrow, we cannot forget the display of the sauces that guests can put on their BBQ.
Their cookbook also contains recipes for the barbecue sauces displayed, and many more!
Thank you again 12 Bones staff and thank you for wanting to be on our Pineapple Bag Blog.
You were all so patient while I was trying to get my android camera to work, since it was running out of battery!

Nice Accommodations, Southern Hospitality…

Chicken breast stuffed with asparagus and wrapped and cheese with a pesto sauce.
Served with yummy grilled vegetables😋
Grilled salmon stuffed with crab and spinach in a lemony butter sauce.
Specialties of the Holiday Inn.
63 degrees and rising.
Got up to 82 degrees here today, as we drove down the interstate to find our destination:
12 Bones BBQ!
Yummy yummy yummy!
Down-home hospitality and friendly faces.
Eager to be part of the pineapple blog.

Just passed London, Kentucky; it is now a beautiful 81 degrees outside!

I will now catch you up with what we’ve been doing since the 71 degree weather reported on this blog.

Just look at this gorgeous Countryside as we cruise down Interstate 75!
Minus the dashboard of the car!
The highlight of the early afternoon was having a wonderful lunch at the oldest Cracker Barrel now standing; store number 10 in Richmond, Kentucky, Yahoo!
Navigator was so busy talking and visiting with the staff, that she forgot to take pictures of our meal; I so apologize to all of you!
Navigator’s meal was grilled catfish with tartar sauce, fresh green salad with ranch on the sid, and yummy steamed broccoli😋
Let me not forget that wonderful cornbread muffin with the meal, and the thirst-quenching unsweetened iced tea with lemon, topping off the meal with a Root Beer!
Pineapple Bag was so tired that a nap in the car was more important. we will definitely pass another Cracker Barrel in the near future when pineapple bag awakens.
The Captain had the the super luscious Southern Grilled smoked chicken salad.
At the store a special gift was purchased for a special relative! See next…
Thank you Cracker Barrel’s Number 10 staff for the great, great service!
Now, introducing the Talking Toucan from Cracker Barrel!!!

Welcome to Kentucky you ‘all!

I just saw my first Bojangles!
I’ll have to take our daughter home some Bojangle biscuits.
I think they’re called Boberry biscuits (spelling?)
The Ohio River, and Kentucky evidently owns part of it, along with three or four other states.
Remember The Oak Ridge Boys song about got a lot of river?… they sing about the Monongahela and the Ohio- this is more trivia just for you!

Leaving New Albany after a good night’s rest…

Foods offered at the Holiday Inn Express.
No homemade oatmeal at the buffet, so I made it for all of us in the microwave in the room and added all sorts of good stuff to it; old fashioned Quaker Oats, plus Greek yogurt.
Pineapple Bag especially loves oatmeal, the Captain too. The Navigator prefers grits, so she gets her good fiber from other natural sources.
Now here’s a healthy alternative to grits and oatmeal😁
An Indulgence from the past, as I sold 13 dozen of Krispy Kreme donuts for our junior senior prom in high school to my mom because we actually had a lot of snow in South Carolina that particular Friday and most people do not drive in that weather and don’t even know how.
Unbelievable, but my sis and I who were skinny at the time, demolished those 13 dozen of donuts in record time, because they were so gooey and good placed in the oven for a few seconds, because we didn’t have a microwave in 1965 at our home, of course.
Keep in mind that I saw online that Paula Deen uses Krispy Kreme donuts for bread pudding.
I saw it on the Ellen show and they were gobbling Donuts as fast as they were making the bread pudding.

Look it up if you don’t believe me😋😁

More Direction trivia for you:)
No it’s not me, those similar signs were posted twice.
We are now nine miles from Frankfort, Kentucky the capitol, if you remember your history.
Spelled f o r t instead of f u r t like Frankfurt Germany.
We just passed the Kentucky River but I was too slow. I was busy telling you how to spell Frankfort, Kentucky or Frankfurt,Germany:)

Now for some rest in New Albany, Indiana…

We stopped for the night and gave the desk clerk our confirmation of a room, and someone had already booked another party of two into it.

They were able to find us a room and we are so grateful!

Things happen but we had already paid for our room. The manager was very polite, but she told another employee that they had to talk:)

Now for some nourishing food for all of us… more to come you all!

Will even settle for chicken!
Later folks!
The best scrambled eggs I’ve ever had and super lean sausage!
For those of you that do not know what the yellow stuff is in the bowl on the left, those are corn grits with real butter in them.
We went to Waffle House😋
This chain of enterprising restaurants has a plan to keep open during all catastrophes, and on the East Coast, especially in the North Carolina area, they fed the victims of the hurricanes twenty-four hours a day!
This town’s restaurant directory did not even have them on it!
It may be considered fast food by some, but I’m a country cook, I am a great cook, and I know what good food is!
Everything is made from scratch so I don’t know why it’s considered a fast food restaurant?
I am sad that we do not have one in Oregon!
When the Captain and Navigator, and Pineapple Bag reach their destination we have one down the street from our hotel, along with Walmart and McDonald’s, yay!!!
Another nice gym; all of us went to exercise after a good meal, but we took it easy on the machines!
By the way, the Captain had some luscious grilled pork chops and hash browns, along with his eggs and raisin toast😁

Indiana here we are…

This is really a clean State and the rest stops are outstanding as they look like houses or new homes.
No this is not a new home this is a rest stop.
Special groups take over the care of individual rest stops.
Facilities immaculate.

I found this very interesting and quite enterprising of the state of Indiana.
Unbelievable, a Greyhound bus station inside of a McDonald’s and tired people waiting with luggage inside the McDonald’s.
I was offered a job sitting inside the site typing and wearing my sparkly cap, by the McDonald’s rep for the Greyhound station.

Again, this is the reflections of the Navigator…
Virgil offered me the job of sitting inside the Greyhound station and is excited about being on our blog.
Thank you Virgil, you made our day with your friendly enthusiastic manner and conscientiousness at McDonald’s in Mount Vernon, Indiana.
I promised your minute of Fame and here it is!
Virgil, I hope you are enjoying the Pineapple Bag Blog!
Be proud of Indiana and thank you for being one of those who show Pride in their job and allow customers to feel good about being in your eating establishment.
My daughter and I were customers of the month in Woodburn, Oregon at our McDonald’s in 1978.
They even posted our pictures on their bulletin board!
She was 2 years old and has never forgotten it:)