Seems we are still in South Carolina. Bill and Larry were attempting to install a Vue Cube, Satellite Dish, on Bill's motorhome but have run into some little glitches and so we are still here. Hopefully they can get that resolved today.
Deb has been enjoying working in her yard, getting it back in shape, removing lots of weeds, picking tomatoes, okra, peppers etc. That seems to be her therapy and I told her my therapy was cooking so I have taken over preparing the meals. It seems to work for the both of us.
We will be leaving sometime today and spending the night in a Wal Mart somewhere in NC and on to Virginia tomorrow. We will just go to the campground that our ODC Club is coming to on Friday, since it is only 13 miles from our house, and there is no need for us to go home, hook up the MH to everything and then turn around on Friday and go to the campground. I guess we are pretty much full timing it since we have been living in "the bus" since January.
Will catch up after the weekend campout.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Life after Fripp Island, South Carolina
We arrived in Greer SC on Wednesday the 4th of September and spent some time helping Bill and Deb to get things ready to go to the beach.
Saturday morning we started out on our little road trip to Fripp Island SC to meet up with 4 other couples from Georgia. Stella & Tommy Barr, Manning & Sharon Moody, Joann and Ike Ikred, Ann Reynolds & Maston Griffin. Bill and I had known the girls and Manning since we were in second grade and we had met their spouses before and love all of them dearly. We try to get together at least once a year.
We arrived at the island after a grocery trip to Wal Mart, which was a complete"hoot" within itself(four people trying to work from one grocery list) and started unloading the vehicle which was packed to the "gills". There was not a corner or crack to put another thing,
Now the good times start with Happy Hour and Memories. I am sure the spouses were tired by the end of the visit , from all the old stories of elementary and high school but a GOOD TIME was had by all.
We walked on the beach, the Atlantic is quite dirty, so no one really wanted to be in the water but there are some really nice pools in the area so we did have a good time there. When you get six old ladies and six old men in a pool you have a MESS.
Of course we ate very well while there and if anyone went hungry it was their own fault.
Everyone left on Wednesday morning except the four of us. We decided to go to Hunting Island State Park and also the Lighthouse which Larry, Bill and I climbed. Larry and I have been collecting lighthouses for many years and try to climb as many as we can. This one had 167 steps to the top viewing area.
Thursday we headed back to Greer and of course the job of unloading the car came next. We all were ready for some quiet time and so we retired early,
Bill and Larry are working on some projects around the house now and we will probably head back to Virginia the first part of the week and on to an ODC Campout on Friday.
I forgot to tell you about our trip to Mt. Airy NC on the way down. We stopped and spent two nights at the Mayberry Campground and went into town to visit all the favorite spots of Andy and Barney from the Andy Griffith show. There is a museum, Floyds Barber Shop, The Snappy Lunch where we had lunch of a pork chop sandwich and a Drug Store with a soda fountain that we went into and had a banana split for dessert with the extra of the owner telling so stories of Andy, when he was growing up. He was quite the historian. Also we learned the first Siamese twins lived in that area and the story of their lives is very interesting. In fact the campground is built on their property which has been passed down for generations.
There is a mountain in the area called Pilot Mountain which is also what Andy referred too in the shows, as the town of Mt. Pilot.
Saturday morning we started out on our little road trip to Fripp Island SC to meet up with 4 other couples from Georgia. Stella & Tommy Barr, Manning & Sharon Moody, Joann and Ike Ikred, Ann Reynolds & Maston Griffin. Bill and I had known the girls and Manning since we were in second grade and we had met their spouses before and love all of them dearly. We try to get together at least once a year.
We arrived at the island after a grocery trip to Wal Mart, which was a complete"hoot" within itself(four people trying to work from one grocery list) and started unloading the vehicle which was packed to the "gills". There was not a corner or crack to put another thing,
Now the good times start with Happy Hour and Memories. I am sure the spouses were tired by the end of the visit , from all the old stories of elementary and high school but a GOOD TIME was had by all.
We walked on the beach, the Atlantic is quite dirty, so no one really wanted to be in the water but there are some really nice pools in the area so we did have a good time there. When you get six old ladies and six old men in a pool you have a MESS.
Of course we ate very well while there and if anyone went hungry it was their own fault.
Everyone left on Wednesday morning except the four of us. We decided to go to Hunting Island State Park and also the Lighthouse which Larry, Bill and I climbed. Larry and I have been collecting lighthouses for many years and try to climb as many as we can. This one had 167 steps to the top viewing area.
Thursday we headed back to Greer and of course the job of unloading the car came next. We all were ready for some quiet time and so we retired early,
Bill and Larry are working on some projects around the house now and we will probably head back to Virginia the first part of the week and on to an ODC Campout on Friday.
I forgot to tell you about our trip to Mt. Airy NC on the way down. We stopped and spent two nights at the Mayberry Campground and went into town to visit all the favorite spots of Andy and Barney from the Andy Griffith show. There is a museum, Floyds Barber Shop, The Snappy Lunch where we had lunch of a pork chop sandwich and a Drug Store with a soda fountain that we went into and had a banana split for dessert with the extra of the owner telling so stories of Andy, when he was growing up. He was quite the historian. Also we learned the first Siamese twins lived in that area and the story of their lives is very interesting. In fact the campground is built on their property which has been passed down for generations.
There is a mountain in the area called Pilot Mountain which is also what Andy referred too in the shows, as the town of Mt. Pilot.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Labor Day Weekend 2013
A lot has been happening since I last posted on the Travels of the Big "A" Bus. In the last post I indicated we would be camping with 4 couples for a weekend but that didn't happen due to one of the couples having a death in the family so we actually postponed that trip until this weekend.
In the mean time we have been busy with a house showing which we thought was a good prospect but that did not happen so we still have a house and property to sell. However we have managed to stay quite busy. Larry has been cutting grass , seems like every other day, between rain downpours. It has been a really rainy summer in Virginia. We had another camping trip in August to Luray Va . with the ODC camping group. Madie went with us and enjoyed just having a a restful weekend. She has been playing and singing at different places all summer and I think she needed a break.
Our son in law Doug, was going to a school for Lt. Col. for the army so I was invited to come to Indy and help Ally with the four grands for a while. I flew out on Aug. 20th and returned on the 28th. I cooked, ran the morning school carpool , picked up most of the afternoon runs and did the football practice run with Noah, open house night at school to meet the teachers, emptied 2 refrigerators down to one in the basement, cleaned and organized the freezer, play closet in the basement, got clothes ready for a consignment shop, took stuff to Goodwill. Now I didn't do all this by myself, Ally was right there helping me. We had a good time doing it and enjoyed some mother daughter time. That is one BUSY family.
We are now at Endless Caverns Campground at New Market Virginia with Tolson, Freed, and Burdette for a relaxing weekend. Yesterday we went out to breakfast at the Southern Kitchen and then to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War. It was very interesting and there is a movie being made about the battle and the cadets from VMI. It is called the Field of Lost Shoes. Had a wonderful dinner with the group last night, steak, potatoes, beans, pretzel salad and then homemade icecream and pound cake for dessert.
Everyone is taking it easy this morning and then we are going to a parade this afternoon to see the Cadets from VMI that have marched from Lynchburg to New Market and will do a reenactment of the battle. As a matter of fact, Larry is still in bed.
Tomorrow, we head out to Mt. Airy N.C. to visit the Andy Griffith town of Mayberry. Larry says he is taking Barney another bullet since he never had but one. Spending a couple of days there and then on to Greer SC to Bill and Deb Dorris home, leaving the MH there and driving with them to Fripp Island SC to a beach house that Bill has a timeshare in. He has invitied 5 other high school friends and their husband or wife. we are really looking forward to this trip.
After that it is back to Virginia for some dentist, doctor appts and then hopefully a trip to Indy for Larry to do some projects for Ally.
Let you know later about the beach trip.
In the mean time we have been busy with a house showing which we thought was a good prospect but that did not happen so we still have a house and property to sell. However we have managed to stay quite busy. Larry has been cutting grass , seems like every other day, between rain downpours. It has been a really rainy summer in Virginia. We had another camping trip in August to Luray Va . with the ODC camping group. Madie went with us and enjoyed just having a a restful weekend. She has been playing and singing at different places all summer and I think she needed a break.
Our son in law Doug, was going to a school for Lt. Col. for the army so I was invited to come to Indy and help Ally with the four grands for a while. I flew out on Aug. 20th and returned on the 28th. I cooked, ran the morning school carpool , picked up most of the afternoon runs and did the football practice run with Noah, open house night at school to meet the teachers, emptied 2 refrigerators down to one in the basement, cleaned and organized the freezer, play closet in the basement, got clothes ready for a consignment shop, took stuff to Goodwill. Now I didn't do all this by myself, Ally was right there helping me. We had a good time doing it and enjoyed some mother daughter time. That is one BUSY family.
We are now at Endless Caverns Campground at New Market Virginia with Tolson, Freed, and Burdette for a relaxing weekend. Yesterday we went out to breakfast at the Southern Kitchen and then to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War. It was very interesting and there is a movie being made about the battle and the cadets from VMI. It is called the Field of Lost Shoes. Had a wonderful dinner with the group last night, steak, potatoes, beans, pretzel salad and then homemade icecream and pound cake for dessert.
Everyone is taking it easy this morning and then we are going to a parade this afternoon to see the Cadets from VMI that have marched from Lynchburg to New Market and will do a reenactment of the battle. As a matter of fact, Larry is still in bed.
Tomorrow, we head out to Mt. Airy N.C. to visit the Andy Griffith town of Mayberry. Larry says he is taking Barney another bullet since he never had but one. Spending a couple of days there and then on to Greer SC to Bill and Deb Dorris home, leaving the MH there and driving with them to Fripp Island SC to a beach house that Bill has a timeshare in. He has invitied 5 other high school friends and their husband or wife. we are really looking forward to this trip.
After that it is back to Virginia for some dentist, doctor appts and then hopefully a trip to Indy for Larry to do some projects for Ally.
Let you know later about the beach trip.
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