This is a long anticipated trip to visit Hart Square Village tomorrow. This is the last Our State Magazine trip that was on the living room table since my Parkinson's diagnosis. The article ran in October 2012. But that is tomorrow.
Today we are in Hickory where there are motels. We got here mid-afternoon to tour Harper House. It is by hourly tours certain days and times. As it worked out, we had a private tour at 2 pm. It is well worth a visit and one of the finest preserved Queen Anne houses we've ever seen. Our $10 pp + taxes was well spent. Did you know Hickory was a treatment epicenter for a 1944 polio epidemic?
After that I don't have much nice to say about the rest... My grandparents taught me if you didn't have anything nice to say then keep your pie hole shut. I'll be brief. Hickory is a road nightmare. No grid streets and the names are mostly low digit numbers followed by Avenue, Street or Drive and subsequent combinations plus compass directions. So today we've been on 1 through 10 Streets, Avenue and are staying tonight on 13th Avenue Drive SE! I'd hate to need an ambulance or fire truck in Hickory! We are at the Sleep Inn tonight. There is nothing to recommend it. It is not especially conveniently located, not quiet, a bit smelly. It has those 4 small square bed pillows! It is surrounded by 2 other chain motels and a Cracker Barrel. We had dinner at Mountain Fried Chicken. It was unappetizing. I'd say it was inedible, but we actually ate it. We stopped at Udderly Delicious for ice cream for dessert. It was OK with huge servings.
Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow since this trip is for Clay's birthday!
I am certain Clay took no photos today.
Little Bob hits the road
Little Bob hits the road
