Life

We got up early (dad always gets up early) and breakfast was outside our door at 7:00 a.m.  Every room in the hotel has a wooden shoebox with a card in there that you check off what you want and leave the box outside the door the night before. We watched some tv until 9:30 when we left to meet Ann and John at the facility.  This time, we visited Uncle Nick in his room. I don't know if he was better or worse but he was interested in his Massillon yearbook. 

 

After the visit, we headed to Bedford to see the National D-Day Memorial.  The area around Lynchburg is beautiful and this place had nearby mountains which made for a great setting.  They did a very nice job on this memorial.

 

 

It was lunchtime and I got lucky with a great restaurant near the memorial.  My GPS has restaurants in it but its always a crapshoot to what you get.  I picked Liberty Station and it turned out to be a great choice.  It was in an old train depot and the food was great.  We talked to the owner and he was Ohio friendly.  I like local restaurants and this was a good one.

 

Next up was Thomas Jefferson's summer retreat, Poplar Forest.  We pretty much had the place to ourselves since it was so cold but I really enjoyed the tour of this place.  Jefferson designed and lived there off and on for 20 years.  He had 5000 acres and it produced tobacco and wheat.  There's a golf course on some of the property now prompting my comment to our tour guide about dad not knowing that Jefferson was a big golfer.

 

 

Dad was tired by then so we drove through some of Lynchburg's historic areas, which weren't all that great.  But it killed some time, as did my stop at Sam's Club to get some reading material for the plane. 

 

We got on the prop plane to Charlotte at 5:30 and had enough time to grab lunch there before boarding the flight to Akron-Canton.  We sat on the runway forever waiting to take off and didn't get home to the snow and ice until 10:45.  I think we were both exhausted by then.  I stayed overnight and awoke at 5:30 a.m. to head back to Columbus.