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Outside of not-really musing about moving back to San Francisco, Mark and I never envisioned moving to a bigger city/area when we retired. 
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Yo-Yo Ma created the Silkroad ensemble in 1998 to promote collaboration among multi-cultural musicians.  (Image Credit: https://www.silkroad.org/american-railroad)
Not too long into this year's RiverRun Film Festival, I realized that almost all of my choices featured either road trips or civil justice themes.  I've done jigsaw puzzles with a bunch of you, but you may not know that Mark likes to do them, too. 
In the 1750’s if you were taking the stagecoach north from Winston-Salem, heading toward Virginia, you would stop in Mount Airy. This stagecoach stop by the Ararat River later became famous for a very different reason. It was the Andy Griffith show, and fictional town of Mayberry, that made Mount Airy famous. If you walk downtown today you will see many reminders of this.  A quickie to show you a great picture of Mark and his dad after they finished the puzzle that we all worked on over Christmas at his sister's house:   More than one person has asked us what the Fourth of July is like in the South. We didn’t get out to celebrate – both of us came down with the flu – but it’s certain to be a crashing success wherever you head. Year-round, if you turn your head while traveling a freeway in any relatively unpopulated area of the states we’ve traveled, you are certain to see a massive fireworks warehouse . . . and an adult lingerie emporium.
Despite the fact that I will almost always get something from the library if I can do that instead of spending money, we had a pile of books to offer up for sale, so we went to the biggest used-book store in town today. Here's what we got for $2.93, after selling the books back:  One of the things we wanted to do after we sold the house and moved was to find a different way to watch TV. Surely there must be a less expensive approach! I was the one who researched the options, as Mark said all he cared about was being able to watch the Golf Channel. (Perhaps he knew that, with me in charge we were certain to have access to CNN and a lot of other channels, but that is what he said.) I ended up adding Discovery+ and YouTube TV, and ditching DirecTV. I adore the Magnolia programs, which are available selectively through a lot of cable options, but can be watched at any time Discovery+. The photography is lush and there are many in-depth programs featuring different types of artisans. Last night I happened upon a new show, called The Piece Maker. I thought it was a one-off, which would have been fine, but it is apparently the first of a series.  I have always wanted to attend a film festival, but have never had the time. I think there have been festivals in the Monterey/Carmel area, but even that was tough to manage. What a thrill to discover that there is a full-fledged annual festival here in Winston-Salem, running from April 21 through May 1!  |
