Time Away From Home....F I N A L L Y

After a long summer close to home, we finally got away for a week. On Sunday 10/5 we traveled to Kerr Lake on the NC / VA state line and spent a few days at North Bend, a COE park just west of Kerr dam on the Vrginia side of the lake. North Bend is the point to the right of this picture.

While there isn't much to do in the area, the weather was perfect and it was a good opportunity to relax. It's a beautiful place to just set back and enjoy life.

We had planned to attend a rally with the FMCA Dogwood chapter that we belong to in Smithfield, NC on the weekend of 10/11 and 12. This group is made up of about a hundred of our closest motor homing friends. Since some of these friends always show up early, we decided to do the same and traveled to Smithfield on Thursday. We guessed right and enjoyed a Mexican dinner Thursdy night with 3 other couples. Friday and Saturday were occupied with our usual social activities, and a Bar-B-Q
dinner Saturday night at a local restaurant followed by a delightful show "American Musical Jubilee" at the Rudy Theater in nearby Selma, NC.

Mann was elected President of the Chapter for a two year term that starts in January. We had 32 members present this weekend.

Carolyn was elected to our News letter Editor position so we'll have at least one more thing to keep us busy for a while.

We'll be at home for a couple of weeks then we're off to Urbanna, VA for the Urbanna Oyster Festival. It's an annual affair and one we look forward to. More later....