Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Sunday morning we left James River SP, VA and drove to Pittsboro, NC and stayed until Tuesday A.M. The top photo was taken Saturday at the State Park. We decided to do nothing on Saturday. We had been running for several days and it was rainy besides. The two girls on the front porch are the daughters of the friends we stayed with in Pittsboro. Do you know who they are? I will give you more information later.

Roy Underhill has a woodworking show on PBS called the Woodwright Shop. He relocated from Williamsburg VA to Pittsboro and also opened a school in downtown Pittsboro. He does all of his work with old tools, no power tools. But he wasn’t open and all we could do was look through the window.

When we were walking down Main Street, I noticed a barber shop and decided to get my hair cut and let the ladies do some shopping. Well, it turns out that the barber, Lloyd is a national celebrity. One of the national networks came to Pittsboro before the elections of ’08 to find out what ‘Mainstreet’ was thinking. They interviewed Lloyd and he told them exactly what he thought. He said he was a Republican and that he would vote for McCain. Then he said that he thought Bush had made a mistake going to war in Iraq. After I sat down in the chair it took me 5 minutes before I could tell him how I wanted my hair cut. He just jabbered and jabbered. He was actually almost comical. Maybe you just had to be there.

Tonight we are at Mark and Vicki Lewis’ in Lexington, SC. Mark and Vicki are our son Eric’s in laws. We’re about to sit down to a steak dinner. Will write later.