RV Repair & Appomattox Court House

RV Repair

THU July 15

Left the Outer Banks yesterday and heading roundabout for Lynchburg VA to both pick up my mail c/o General Delivery and to see several things in the area I stopped at a McDonalds to use their free Wi-Fi and found a RV repair place only about 25-miles away so first detour. I drove down and talked about the repairs I needed and found out that all the repair techs had been give the week off but he call one of them and he came in the afternoon. I will use the day to do laundry and other chores.

Laundry, oil change, AAA for maps and seeing Eastern Carolina University; there sure are a lot of students here, this being the summer, maybe college summer semester has change since I looked forward to having 3+ months off.

The trailer was inspected and they used 7-tubes of sealant to replace what they said was the wrong stuff that was on the roof and a few places they thought might leak in a good storm. The tech said he thought the damage to the front was more bending than breaking and he didn’t believe the fiberglass was broken through and so he just weatherproofed it with sealant.

There were a flock of about 20 geese in the field next to the campsite and I watched them fly in both evenings to graze or forage in the farmer’s field, nice hearing their honking.


Appomattox Court House

FRI July 16

Driving north and west from Greenville to Lynchburg VA to pick up my mail and alternating between state highways and US highways with one short 9-mile stretch on an Interstate, see a lot of small-town NC and VA that way and family graveyards on the farms; it is a nice change from sanitized Interstates, slow but a nice change.

A stop along the way at Appomattox Court House and to walk around the buildings and remember the history. They have one of the best displays of uniforms and era equipment I have ever seen and I really enjoyed seeing it all. And just a reminder, Appomattox Court House was the name of the little settlement where the surrender took place; the surrender did not take place at the Court House but rather in the parlor of the McLean House in the settlement. [The house was built in 1848 and owned at the time of the surrender by Wilmer McLean. The house was dismantled in 1893 for display in Washington DC but that display never happened. The present house was reconstructed on its original site in the 1940s by the National Park Service.]

Lynchburg VA, Jerry Fallwell country, and I called Marla to confirm that there should be two pieces of mail for me, the replacement ATM card for the one I lost in Key West and a package of books from an EBay buy. No just one because the guy selling the books sent them to AZ and not to Lynchburg as he was told, expletive deleted.

West of Lynchburg and heading for Lexington VA to spend a couple on nights when suddenly on the radio, BONG!, BONG!, BONG! SEVERE WEATHER ALERS FOR THESE COUNTIES, YADA, YADA, YADA, HIGH WINDS AND DRIVING RAIN; I don’t know what county I’m in or were this stations broadcasts from but its bright sunny and hot here so I just drive on.