Today was a trip of exploration but there was not too much to discover. We started by driving back down the road to Henderson, NC, to pick up another water pressure regulator to replace the unit that the world’s smartest living person, me, had left firmly attached to the spigot back in Advance. What a bozo.
Our drive took us on about a 90 mile loop through northern NC and a little bit of southern VA. Although there is nothing here to get excited about other than Lake Gaston, the drive was spectacular anyway. The foliage is putting on a show that people like me who have lived in the drought-plagued west would find exquisite. There are trees and shrubs that are flowering almost wherever you look interspersed with small farms with emerald green crops just coming out of the soil. The roads are a bit narrow but that probably just keeps the tourists at bay.