Remembering Randy

Back in mid-April, the Blue Ridge Family lost a special, special member . . . Randy Hudson.  Mr. Randy loved the BRR and was the life of the party.  He always created a unique drink for happy hour and an equally unique dessert to take to Wednesday night's Meet 'n Greet.  His T@B, and later his Sonic S.O.B. (what he called "some other trailer") attracted folks like moths to a flame.  He loved nothing more than folks dropping by to sit and visit.

Momma Sharon has been taking snapshots of Randy camping with us since way back at the 3rd Blue Ridge at Mountain Stream in 2010.  The very first one she ever took of him was a breakfast on Saturday morning at Carson's Chapel.

If you wanted to know all about the latest techie gadgets, music systems, and light shows, all you had to do was ask Randy.  He put on a light and sound show at the 2013 Blue Ridge at Raccoon Holler!

Fox will tell you that her favorite wine tasting buddy was Randy.  Here they are at Thistle Meadow near Laurel Springs at the 5th annual BRR.

Randy loved camping at Big Meadow Family Campground in Townsend, TN.  When he traded his T@B for a Sonic S.O.B., he scored his own secret site #000 in 2015 and again in 2017 for the 10th anniversary.

At this year's Blue Ridge, Randy would have been in the center of action in site #5.  When Momma Sharon checked in on Saturday at Fort Chiswell, she told Jeff, the owner, about Randy's passing and that our Peeps would like to pay for site #5 and keep it open for campfires, corn hole, and gathering all week long.  To our delight, Jeff agreed and told us that he would take $100 for the whole week.  Blue Ridgers immediately chipped in and the site was paid for within 24 hours!

On Wednesday evening at the Peep Show Meet & Greet, Bob and Dave poured everyone a little cup of Randy's favorite beverage, Whisper Creek Tennessee Sipping Whisky and all the Peeps toasted him.

Friday morning we had a surprise visitor.  Diane drove up from Atlanta to spend the day with us.  She and Randy had cooked up this plan and she was going to crash on his couch for the night.  Diane put out some candles and photos to honor Randy and other campers we lost in 2017-2018.  During Mom's Saturday evening game in the picnic shelter, they witnessed a beautiful rainbow and knew immediately that Randy had been with us all week.

Randy Hudson, Blue Ridger and friend, 

you are loved and missed!!