Chattanooga Outdoor Adventures

I am having to much fun with AI. Thought I would continue the goat theme from my earlier posts today.

The goats in the picture are reading the first book for Book club while wearing Chattanooga Outdoor Adventures tshirts.

I guess I should have asked AI for pants too.

I mean I really want people to show up for Book club with pants or shorts. Shorts are good too.

The goats do look comfy though.

Please wear pants. Just saying

Always wanted to do Book club. General assumption was that as a athlete in High school and college, a fraternity guy, an outdoors dude, and fun seeker that I didn't know how to read.

This will be an informational meeting and introduction into the book club. I will be figuring things out. I am new at this so you can help.

I'm new at book club, not the being able to read part.

I put a little exploratory post on our Facebook side of our group and had a lot of interest. I wanted an easy, but exciting read. Our first book is 1st to Die. It is about the Woman's Murder club. Hang on! this isn't an actual group of woman who want to commit murder. Thank god because I might be on that list. They SOLVE murders. Whew!

In a perfect moment of serendipity Frothy Monkey has Wine Down Wednesday. For $15 bucks you get a Charcuterie Board (Lunchable) and three glasses of wine flight. So let's meet there. Drink wine, eat cheese, and talk about how book club works, and meet each other.

You don't have to have the book read by then. It's just an organizational meeting.

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”― Paulo Coelho,

I like the quote a metaphor for life and the people around us. There are a few vintages that should have never been uncorked, but that's life.

Am I being too sophisticated? This is after all Tennessee wine. Not a Bordeaux from France. I don't care I just like to try different stuff. A bottle of two buck chuck from Trader Joe's and a piece of cheese and I am good.

This is the Tennessee Sip Wine Festival. Wines from Tennessee. I am not enlightened on wine so I just drink my way through and buy bottles of stuff I like. I'll leave the clever stuff to the wine folks.

So here is the plan.

We meet in front of the place that used to be Naked River Brewing. Walk through and sample wines.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet" (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2).

Juliet said that. The question no-one asks is was she referring to smelling Romeo? Hope he had a bath. This was Renaissance period where regular bathing was considered once a week. So hopefully he had just stepped out of the tub and the water wasn't cold. You want to make a good impression. Oh, and smell good too.

Names are interesting. Romeo actually was a term derived from the latin Romaeus referring to pilgrims heading to Rome.

Snoop Dog and Snoopy in the picture? Snoopy was originally going to be named Sniffy. What's with all the smelling people? Where was sniffy sniffing? Anyways, Schultz remembered when he was a child his mother saying if they got another dog they should call him Snoopy. Snoop Dog? His mother thought he looked like Snoopy so she started calling him Snoopy. "hey son, you looked like a dog". Positive reinforcement.

So what's with the name Snoopers Rock? Sometimes you never know where something gets its name, but I know this one. The Revenuer's used to go up to the rock because of its view and the acoustics. They could look down into the Valley and see and because of the acoustic they could hear the moonshiners in the Valley below.

Let's do the Snoopers Rock Trail.

Here are the details
6.1 Miles long
1,138' Elevation Gain
3-3.5 hour hike.

Hike out to Snoopers, eat a snack and hike back