North Carolina

Bob and Carol took a couple days and went to North Carolina to visit Joyce and Jim Maddalon, our southeast/east homies. We had a great trip except for the trip, which was actually fine. (Coolio was on our plane coming home - we have run into him several times in our travels!) Carol remembers little of the actual travel time due to her relationship with the dramamine...
Time with J&J was great. Also saw Aubrey (and significant other: Steve) and Bryan, Donna, Janet, Diane & Robin (how did Bob get into this picture?). J&J fed us well. We had deep fried turkey on Friday and Frogmore Stew on Saturday. More on that when we have the photos to add in.
Their house/property is amazing to us Californianos. A 30 x 40 foot pond in the back with a waterfall that Jim built and a creek (sorry, "crick") running behind that. Beautiful cardinals, finches, doves, woodpeckers that Jim feeds every day. Meeting some of the Maddalon friends (they have friends...).
It was fun to get motivated by Jim's hard work to do better on our house!