Hampton Inn Martinsville Va

Our Danville, VA show was supposed to be abysmal. We had to load in early, because the space was so bad. Thursday night, after we did venue run, we received the most glorious phone call ever. Due to the bad weather, and flooding throughout VA, our Friday show was cancelled!!<br><br>YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! !<br><br>I can't tell ...

... br><br>Mom and I went to Food Lion and stocked up on, well, mainly cheese. It was such great weather I told her we needed to take the dog somewhere different to walk. All I could manage to convince her to do was to go down the highway to the Veterans&#8217; Memorial Park. It&#8217;s basically a paved circular walkway. It wasn&#8217;t wonderful, but at least we weren&#8217;t sitting in the house watching the food channel!!

... br><br>The flight was uneventful. Good for me, but bad for the blog. I think I&#8217;ll wait until something exciting &#8211; or even vaguely interesting &#8211; happens before I publish it for the world to see. Greensboro did look pretty from the air. Even though it was raining, the trees were colorful. Mother isn&#8217;t feeling well so I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll make it to the mountains this trip.

... time he turned the left blinker on to change lanes.  Now he can change lanes silently.  He also can follow me more closely. We stopped in Charlottesville to visit the famous Crutchfield store where I have bought electronic stuff through the mail for the last 25 years.  In the parking lot we met nancy and her Dad   - who was a biker who Nancy said stopped biking when he wiped out hitting a chicken in the road... Crutchfield had a cable to hook our mp3 player ...

... make ourselves at home. While we were waiting there one of the guys came in to chat - saying "What part of Texas are y'all from?" I had to let him down by telling him we only bought the truck in Texas, we were actually New Zealanders! (our truck has Texas number plates). We weren't there long before we kept travelling to the small 'mom & pop' campground in Axton, VA that we were spending the night at. The lady there was quite taken with Fred's "accent"!

... water from the faucet all point to the stark difference in meeting my basic bodily needs. Traveling, I was always thinking about where to buy water, when and what to eat, how to get from place to place, where to sleep. While I never faced impoverished lack of anything (as do so many people in the countries I visited), I had to pay more attention to my basic human needs than I do from day to day here. While it's a relief to be free from those ...

... than we have to. We will be spending the next few nights at the Radisson in High Point, NC. It is a very nice hotel, but it is right downtown, so we have to park our truck and trailer down the street and walk a couple blocks to the hotel; but we made it safely and are enjoying the hotel, so all is good!

Even before we went they not particularly impressed with my stories how interesting it is to see a rainbow in the middle of the night. They though I was *********ting. But then, Cumberland Falls, is a myth. They may call it the Little Niagara or the Niagara of the South but sincerely it is nowhere ...

... in the area so my efforts to locate the closest one went unfulfilled and I didn't even attempt the others. It's amazing how much you can forget in 33 years. I drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and thoroughly enjoyed the drive. I knew I didn't have to hurry, so I stopped at several of the view sites, but found them to be basically the same view - of fog shrouded hills and vales - regardless of what they said ...

... it explained all SNAFU in great detail. Oh well, I drove to the crater anyway and read all the signs along the way and around the crater. It just wasn't the same, but since I already knew the story somewhat it wasn't as much of a SNAFU for me as it could have been. The drive to Roanoke was very wet. The rain came down like nobody's business and almost forced me to stop at one time. I was happy to see that the rain was not falling in ...