just peachy

Yup, we were back in Gaffney, SC last week for our chassis maintenance (every 15,000 miles or so).  I believe this recent stop was our fourth at the Freightliner facility.  Our maintenance can take four hours or an entire day, fortunately there's only been one visit that was eight hours.  We've always been at a loss to find much to do in the area that we can include Sir Arlo in so we usually go to a state park or something.  

We were so pleasantly surprised with changes we saw in Gaffney.  We'd always thought of it as a rather depressed little town (with a per capita income in the range of $18,000 I'd say our thoughts were correct).  There has been a lot of new retail development in town since we were there a year or so ago.

We did some "tourist" things this time we were there, one of which was to visit the "Michael Gaffney House".  What an interesting history this little building has!  Michael Gaffney came to the US from Ireland in the late 1700's and eventually settled in what is now his namesake town.  This recreation of his home does have 27 (I believe, but the brochure is still in the car!) boards from the original home which was vandalized and burnt.

After visiting the Gaffney home we went to the Possum Trot School built in 1880.  Apparently the restoration was an Eagle Scout project and what a great job they did.

After leaving Gaffney we spent a night at the Moose Lodge in Selma, NC then came to New Bern, NC to spend some time with Joshua, Trisha and Connor.  

We are leaving New Bern in an hour or so and heading to VA for a couple nights then on to snow covered MA.  We finally got doctor and surgery appointments scheduled on Monday, as well as getting our campground booked (that turned into quite an ordeal, but with the help of a very accommodating KOA employee it finally worked out).  It has been cold, rainy and windy all week here in New Bern so of course, as we are about to leave the sun is shining in my eyes!  We met with a realtor in the area yesterday to look at a property Rick had discovered ... nothing will come of that one for us but we shall see what develops down the road as the realtor has been sending me more listings!

Stay tuned ...