Good Morning North Carolina!!

We made it out of Tennessee and into North Carolina sometime late in the evening on November 11, and we decided to drive to Asheville NC to spend the night. Asheville is a very cool artsy town in the mountains in NC, and it is about a 3 hour drive to Greensboro from there, so we figured we could wake up early, do some sightseeing in Asheville, then cruise on to Greensboro to our new home. We found an RV camp on the internet in Asheville, so we set out to find it, not realizing that the crazy winding roads in the mountains of Asheville would have us driving for much longer than we expected...we could have wound up in Jersey by the end of the night! But eventually we found the camp, out in the middle of nowhere, and it was darker than dark, and I felt like we were in a scene from the movie DELIVERANCE. I can hear the banjos playing now! But in the morning, when we woke up too late to check out Asheville, we were pleasantly surprised to see how beautiful the RV park right on the river turned out to be. We had the best seats in the house, so to speak. So we cooked a nice breakfast in the RV, our last meal in the RV for a while, and then we got on the road to Greensboro.

   After about three hours on the road, we finally got to our new home.  For those of you who haven't been to Greensboro, it's the perfect balance of country and city.  What is very cool is that 10 minutes east of our house we can be in downtown Greensboro, which is the birthplace of the civil rights movement where the Greensboro Four refused to leave the whites only lunch counter at Woolworths. The Woolworths still exists and now houses the Civil Right's Museum.  You can also get to the Greensboro Coliseum in 15 minutes flat from our house which is awesome considering it used to take hours to get out of the parking lot after concerts ended in Los Angeles.  We recently saw Bruce Springsteen at the Coliseum and the show ended at 10:45 pm, and we were home by 11pm.  It was awesome!  You appreciate those kinds of things as you get older!!  Then if you head west of our house, you hit a big state park just a mile down the road that was a big Revolutionary War battleground, so that is great for hikes, bike riding and dog walking.  And since dog walking is a big thing there, we had to adopt a dog.  We got Holly(wood) our Boxer and just love her to pieces!  She has the world's longest tongue and gives Gene Simmons (KISS) a run for his money!!  Jeff has also turned her into a Tar Heels fan, but she also digs (no pun intended) Tom Brady and the Patriots...she's female for God's sake!!
     We were so excited as we drove into the driveway of our new home on November 13.  But there was a problem... the house was still full of furniture and it didn't belong to us!!  The family that we bought the house from still hadn't moved out all of their things, so Jeff and I hopped back into the RV and drove about 10 miles down the road to Jeff's parents house, where we spent our first night in Greensboro.  We figured what's another night living out of the RV...we were now RV pros (plus we just slept inside Jeff's parents' house).  We were anxious to get all settled in, but there was nothing we could do, so we figured we would give it another shot the following day.