Day 23: November 26, 2020 Thankful in NC and VA Comment via blog Check Granny's letters of the day

The last time I was on the verge of a clean underwear shortage, I picked a motel with a broken dryer. I was super lucky in that the next night found me in a place with no guest laundry but with owners who did a load of laundry for $5. This time I wanted to be sure so when I pulled over near a cluster of motels I made some calls. None of the three motels I called had a guest laundry but one volunteered that they had directions to a nearby laundry that was open 24/7/365. That's where I stayed and this is where I was early on Thanksgiving Day. I have an absolute ton of things to be thankful for but this year I'm more appreciative of clean underwear than usual.

Although it was hidden by clouds, I knew that the sun had already come up on this sleepy little town before I got there.

I think I'd like Lexington, NC, even if I didn't know Granddad got a shave here in February 1921. There's a cool looking courthouse, a whole wall of ghost signs, some stores that might have been around when my great-grandparents came through, plus three singing pigs. There are also plenty of non-singing but nicely decorated pigs that are part of Pigs in the City fundraiser.

Every state has the occasional roadside historical marker. In Virginia, they form small roadside forests. The Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the colonial period provide many but not all of the events represented. This cluster, about a mile from Boydton contains one marker related to the Revolutionary War plus markers for a plank road, a college, and a ferry. And there is also a Jefferson Davis Highway marker. Inside the Town of Boydton, it was kind of exciting to find two facing walls of ghost signs although I'm not sure how historic an ad for Kubota Tractors is.

The day ended in Richmond where I went straight to my motel and made Thanksgiving Day phone calls.

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