Wow, time slips away from you when you're all excited about an election.

We're still basking in the President-Elect afterglow but we roused ourselves enough to finish up all of the restaurant reviews from the places we ate during the 2008 trip. You can read all about Leopold's fantastic ice cream, Paula Deen's The Lady and Sons, great barbecue at Butts on the Creek and Poole's, yummy goodness at The Kentucky Fudge Company and Gigi's Cupcakes, the hot dogs we drove more than 200 miles for at Hillbilly Hot Dogs, and more. Check out the Eat section of the site!

The new reviews keep coming and now we're moving on to the food! We have now posted our write-up for the last hotel from our 2008 trip, The Choo Choo Holiday Inn in Chattanooga, Tennessee plus the first two restaurants we visited on the road - The Varsity and The Whistle Stop Cafe.

There are three new hotel reviews posted in the Stay section of the site. You can read all about our visits to the gorgeous John Rutledge House Inn in Charleston, the elegant Inn at Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina, and the historic Gratz Park Inn in Lexington, Kentucky.

Hi everyone, we're back!

We took some time off to recover from our roadtrip and pay attention to some of the things we had been ignoring while we obsessed over, well, everything having to do with this trip. We had such a great time that we were actually worried that if we didn't give ourselves some Plucky space we might just hop in the car again and not come back.

But we've calmed down a little... only a little... and have started updating the site again. We've added two new hotel reviews to the Stay section - the Glenn Hotel in Atlanta and the Planters Inn in Savannah. Check 'em out, why don't you? More to come soon.

Finally, we can't give away too much detail yet, but watch this space for announcement of something new for us - we're calling them Plucky Minis. More on that soon as well.

A week post Plucky and we are going through serious road trip withdrawal. Rick keeps waking up trying to figure out where he is and why we're not on the road yet.

Mary keeps asking when Plucky Survivors 4 starts and since we are always measuring our lives by the things we say are going to keep us alive, most surrounding pop-culture rich TV shows, we have decided to phrase it thusly: The Amazing Race starts in a couple of weeks and ends just as American Idol starts which ends just as So You Think You Can Dance starts which ends right before we go on Plucky Survivors 4.

Meanwhile, we have slowly started putting full reviews of the things we saw on Plucky 3 in the Stay, Eat, See section. You can now read the full review of the 21C Museum Hotel, one of our favorites from the trip.

More to come!

Just because Plucky Survivors 3 has concluded, that doesn't mean PluckySurvivors.com is going dormant. We still have lots of stuff to talk about and the site will be updated frequently with new material.

In the coming weeks we'll be posting our photo album from the 2008 trip plus we'll be adding reviews of the hotels, attractions, and restaurants we visited to the Stay, Eat, See section of the site.

In addition we are working on some new features that will keep Plucky Survivors going until next year's trip, including an Honorary Plucky Survivor gallery that will showcase the people doing things both big and small that we think deserve some sort of recognition. Stay tuned for more details.

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Before the glow of our latest adventure wears off, we would like to extend several thanks to the people who made this year's trip possible. First and foremost is you, our Plucky readers who followed along with us as we traveled and sent letters of support, advice on where to eat, and ruminations on road trip ephemera. We really appreciate you taking the time to read our ramblings.

There were quite a few folks that helped us make arrangements for accommodations and access to attractions and events that we otherwise might not have been able to see. In order of how we saw them we want to give shout outs to the Glenn Hotel in Atlanta, the Planters Inn in Savannah, the Savannah Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the John Rutledge House Inn and Charming Inns of Charleston, the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Myrtle Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, the Inn at Biltmore and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, the Gratz Inn in Lexington, the Lexington Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau, the 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Choo Choo Holiday Inn in Chattanooga, the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, the Atlanta Cyclorama, the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca Cola, and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau.

And of course we want to thank all of the people we met along the way who told us their stories, entertained us, helped us with advice on the best places to eat, or simply showed us why the people of this country are some of the nicest on the planet.

Thank you.