Memorial Day Road Trip

Greetings from Roanoke, Virginia (well, technically, Salem) where we are visiting friends Sue and Ken for the long holiday weekend. (If you think you would like to take this opportunity to break into our house, don't even think about it. The house is being guarded by a vicious Golden Retriever who will probably bark your ear off and lick you to death if you try to enter. Oh, yeah, and we have a house sitter there, too.)

We made the nine-hour trip down on Friday, and it went pretty fast. The highlight was, like any snowbird will tell you, stopping by the Country Cupboard in Lewisburg, PA. There's no place like it around for great "home cookin'," old fashioned candy and awesome baked goods (we have to stock up on no-bake cookies and sticky buns on the way home).

Yesterday Sue and Ken showed us around the city. We went to the market district for the farmer's market and speciality shops, saw some sites, had GREAT FOOD, went to a festival, and just generally did touristy things. It's a very nice area with great historic brick houses. The area Sue and Ken live in (the City of Salem), in particular is very quaint, and they live within walking distance to a lot of things, including the downtown area.

This morning Mark left early for a day of fishing with a guide, and our day lay out before us, ripe with possibilities. Maybe a short road trip is in order...although being on the road tomorrow for another nine hours, we wouldn't want to be on the road too long today!