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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

VINEYARDS/WINERIES and PILOT MOUNTAIN in NORTH CAROLINA

Friday, April 29th - Our last day in Mt Airy, NC.
Bill, Esther, Gary and I started out again at 8 am and had a good breakfast at Sue's Seafood. ( I think that I preferred the first day's breakfast location!)
We started across country to Mt Pilot, Dobson and Elkin NC before going up to Pilot Mountain. Of course, interesting sights and countryside with stops at wineries for Esther. But we enjoyed them also. First was the McRitchie Winery and Ciderworks.


Very interesting to see how they lay out the fields! They were mowing between rows this day. It had to be a full time job.

Some awesome awards for their wines!

The pianst was not in this day. Darn!
Just down the road we stopped at Jones-Von Drehle Vineyards and Winery.. Esther thought she might have bought enough when she finished here! We will see.

Watch dog? It doesn't seem concerned with anything
going on around.












It is time to move on up the mountain. We haven't had our climb in for today yet! We are beginning to see Pilot Mountain in the distance.

Views from the parking area when we arrived-


The Yardin Valley

We passed these two on the road up to the Park.
Gary thought about offering to let them hang on
for $10. a bike! They did make it and wanted their picture taken,
but were pretty exhausted..
We then looked around and our guys were gone! So Esther and I began our climb up to the top of Pilot Mountain. However, I did not make it to the top because the steps stopped and the stones began with nothing to hold on to. I was not brave enough for that and the knees don't handle the climbs very well anymore. So Esther went on and low and behold the guys were there!

When they got back to where I was waiting, they thought it time to rest before hitting the road again.









Pretty little fellow they saw on their climb.
Now down the road again and wonder or wonders, another winery!! JO-LO Vineyards and Winery.  It had an awesome view and was so much fancier then the earlier ones. Esther did find some more to take home and we had appetizers to tide us over to dinner.

Pretty fancy deck for outdoor seating, as well!










Zoom view of Pilot Mountain seen just to the left
of the roof line in picture above.















Guess maybe this was enough for one day? So we got together again for TV and cards and I put Esther and Bill's pizza in the oven and got out our left overs. We did not lack for food!
We will hit the road on Saturday with a stop at Tamarek in WV.
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