Well we arrived at Forest Lake, a Thousand Trails Park in Lexington, North Carolina. I would love to say we arrived without incidence, but on the way we had to stop at a rest area and take the passenger side front wheel off, regrease the bearing, take off the pads and caliper and fish out some parts from the melted ABS sensor that created a huge grinding noise all of a sudden. Well we are getting good at this stuff because we pulled off and did all that and got back rolling in less than 15 minutes!
Looks like we hit this town at just the right time. The Childress Winery we saw when we came in was celebrating its harvest with a festival! So we had to go.
The winery was gorgeous! Rolling hills with grape vines blanketing it. Although storm clouds were brewing it was a great evening. Still warm at least :) I am glad we arrived early as the line for getting into the buffet grew quickly to an impressive size. We found ourselves in line next to a very nice couple from Winston-Salem whom offered us to share a table with. There too were quite the travelers, except more worldwide doing cruises in Europe, Asia, etc. We had a great time eating, drinking good wine and exchanging tales of travel.
After dinner we moved outdoors but the storms that were brewing were now dumping copious amounts of rain, and the wind was downright cold! But the excellent house sangria helped warm our insides. After that we had a couple set down a half bottle of wine for us since they were heading home. What a nice crowd. Unfortunately we already had enough to drink so we passed the gift on to someone else. Time to head home, but first I had to reactivated my shoplifting skills so that we could smuggle out the logo imprinted wine glasses we have been drinking from. I needed something to smuggle them out in…how about the little shopping bags they give out in the gift shop? But I would need to buy something cheap to get a bag. And of course I picked the dark chocolate shaped like a bunch of grapes. A $1.49, perfect.
Then back at our table I used a few slight of hand tricks and…voila, the glasses were in the bag and operation glass extraction was half way finished. The walk out the door was a piece of cake, noone knew and were we home free. But where is the Jeep? perhaps the 16 foot kayak perched atop of it might make it stand out in the lot just a tad :)
[Note: Warsteiner Premuim Dunkel gets a 8 on the beer scale]
On sunday we went out to find the Dog Park at Country Park in Greensboro. It was a slight adventure finding it but it was worth it. The park itself was large and beautiful with a great lake to walk around. There were dogs everywhere, also in abundance was Jack and Jinjer’s favorites snack, Goose Shit. The dog park proved a little tricky to find in the park as there were no signs directing you. We did find it and it was quite large with both wooded and grassy. There was no little and big dog section, they were all in one area today. We meet a nice couple with two bulldogs, Beemis and Peaches. They gave us a nice lead on a good Thai restaurant in the area so after the dogs played for some time it was time to go search out the restaurant.
The restaurant, Rearn Thai, was great! The building was classy, it had nice flowers and plants around the outside with tables intermixed. The building had large glass windows, prob 15’ high overlooking the gardens. The food was really good [I had red curry of course, Sharon had pranang curry], it makes the list for sure. The server was so sweet, and our thoughts are with her, as she just lost her father whom she was very close to :( She was actually from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, such a small world. And extra points go to this place as they had Newcastle :)
Its amazing the contrast between people in regards to what they find is important to them. It becomes more apparent in older individuals I believe because they have started on their paths a long time ago and are well into being who they are. Take this comparison for instance.
While at the Forest Lake I ran into an the older gentlemen who sold me my sewer caddy for a great deal. And now after recognizing me as soon as he saw me, he told me he had something for me. I waited there as he rummaged through several of his rubbermaid bins in his hatches until he finally found what he was looking for, some sort of metal tubing item. When he got back to me and handed it to me. “Here is the attachment for the sewer caddy to hook it to your trailer hitch so you do not have to haul that heavy thing by hand. I saw it the other day and realized I forgot to give it to you in Cincinnati” he stated. “Well thanks a bunch,” I replied.
Here is someone who could have not even bothered and just threw it away some time ago. But instead he held on to it, hoping he would run into me again and give it to me because it was bugging him that he may have shorted me of it. He and his wife were so nice to us, he was a soft spoken guy, but talked my ear off once he got going. But I did not mind at all as he had many interesting stories and great RV’ing tips. Kinda reminded me of my father.
Now the other side of human personality traits. In the same park, just a few lots down a man spent almost every day either washing his coach or his car. Now I am sure a lot of people would think “what is wrong with that?”. Well nothing, I just have too many other things I want to do with my life, but hey, to each his own huh? But this guy goes a little too far. He actually hoses down the gravel road that goes by his lot so that dust with not kick up and get on his coach. Again, not too bad, if he wants to waste his life worrying about such stuff let him right? It is just himself he is hurting.
Where he goes to far is that he argues and runs off the elderly couple in the space next to him. All because they are getting ready to have an RV wash service pressure wash their coach for them. And he does not want any spray to land on his nice clean coach. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! He is going to have this little old couple pack up everything, and move to a new space just so he does not get some water spots on his precious coach?!?! This is when I realize that some people are way too wrapped up in their own little meaningless existences. There are so many other things to worry about, I mean come ON!!!!
What total polar opposites. I do have to say, for the most part we have found more people lean toward the nice, courteous spectrum of human ethics, but not by much unfortunately :(
I digress…time to finally head south.
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