Trip Report #3 - Greensboro, NC

On Thursday, June 11, 2009, we left Charlotte, NC around 10 a.m. and traveled north to Winston-Salem, NC to have lunch with friends Reva and Clarence. Reva was my best friend when we lived there 1979-1985. It was fun "catching up" with our children and grand children.

We left them and stopped by to visit our friends Dewey and Jane who live near Baptist Hospital. They have a mentally challenged daughter Debbie who was James friend. Debbie lives in a Methodist group home now and is going fine. Jane brought us up to date on all of James' friends from that area.

We arrived in Greensboro late in the afternoon and it was nice and cool. We sat outside under a big oak tree in my sister Susan's and her husband Bob's pretty front yard, in an older neighborhood called Lindley Park, near Univ. of NC at Greensboro.

On Friday we celebrated Bob's birthday in the afternoon after we went shopping that morning to help Susan get a new flat screen monitor for her computer. Friday night we went to a seafood restaurant for the monthly birthday get-together of the church they attend.

Saturday was a relaxing day. We've been to Greensboro so many times we didn't do any sightseeing. We always had to take James to the Amtrak station when we were there. On our last visit, we took him to see the new Amtrak/bus station that has been restored downtown.

We got up early Sunday morning and packed Susan and Bob's car for a 3 day trip to the Eastern shore of Maryland to visit our sister Christine Knudson and her husband Al. We stopped in Emporia, VA on the way and had lunch with Christine's daughter and her family. Her friend Wes had grilled shish-k-bobs for lunch and we had a luncheon for Jake, Cydi's oldest son who graduated from Suffolk High school on Sat. Jan 13, and it was her son Bobby's 15th birthday that week also.

All 6 of the Wilson girls were present for the luncheon (my 5 sisters and myself) so they took lots of pictures of us. Usually at our gatherings there's always one who can't be there. Our brother Perry who lives in Elba was missing from our gathering. We all see each other throughout the year at various places.

We left Emporia at 2 P.M., so we could be able to get the White Haven Ferry, west of Princess Ann in MD, to get to Chris and Al's home in Nanticoke.

When we got to Nanticoke, it was nice and cool.