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I have wanted to try the train trip on the Zephyr for quite awhile, and have the chance to see the Sierra Nevada, and the Rockies, from a different vantage point. 
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Last week I posted about a striking international watercolor exhibit that I attended, just across the border into rural Virginia.  This is the country, and history, that I saw on the way.
Mark and I went to high school with a girl from Tennessee. She had a strong drawl, which made her seem exotic. I wondered how close she lived to the rolling hills that I envisioned as the whole of her home State.  Cheri was busy at a quilting retreat; I took a short drive and ended up at a museum. Halifax County, Virginia is just across the border from North Carolina, about a two hour drive, if you take a direct route from where we live.  One thing I love about living in Winston-Salem is that there are always new things to discover.  Image Credit: https://www.theresidencyreview.com/sawtooth-school-for-visual-arts
Well, we haven't received any mail in 10 days, and Amazon showed up for the first time in as long just yesterday.  My dad has said on several occasions that he is proud he and Mom had raised four children and never had to see them through the bars of a jail.  While Mark and his father Harry enjoyed the wagons and buggies in a nearby museum earlier this week, I strolled through Cranberry Antiques in Blanco, Texas, which is one of my favorite Texas antique stores.  A few weeks ago I told you about how I slept across the street from [the inn where] George Washington [slept in 1791].  (Image Credit: https://ar.inspiredpencil.com) Full of myself, now I'll imply that Barack Obama and I have a lot in common,
Yesterday Cheri asked me what day would be good to go to Madison, NC. I said today would be great. We are, after all, retired.  We walked most of The Point neighborhood of Beaufort, South Carolina while we were in the area.  Mark and I stopped in at Rock Hill, SC for lunch on our way towards Hilton Head and Savannah.  We were driving the little road between where we were staying and the City of Savannah when we saw this on the side of an old building in Bluffton, SC:  I took several walks today. The first was on the beach by the condo we are staying in at Hilton Head Island. It was the perfect beach for walking, or riding a fixie on, like this guy who went by me:  Mark and I went to see the exhibit "Camel City: Tobacco & Transformation, 1875-1964" at the Reynolda House Museum & Gardens a couple of weeks ago.   First of all, we're not talking about the Salem of witches fame. That one is in Massachusetts.  I love museums, and although this museum in Parkersburg, West Virginia is designated as the Oil & Gas Museum, it is so much more.  The reason we headed to Athens, Ohio was to see a juried exhibit of quilts by members of the international Modern Quilt Guild.  We knew we were going to Athens, Ohio, but heard that nearby Nelsonville has a more Victorian vibe, so we stayed there.  |
