Day 1 (Saturday, June 4, 2005), Charlotte to Asheville

    

 

 

Having attended a show the night before at the Visulite Theater in Charlotte's Elizabeth neighborhood, I stayed the night in that neighborhood. Driving out of Elizabeth...

 

 

Back at Strawberry Hill...  young Will and his ear...

 

 

Mother prepared a fine butterscotch coffee cake to mark my departure. Sister Jan cut the cake, a chipmunk sat upon the patio wall, and Ryan held forth on the accordion...

 

     

 

 

The odometer read 17,560 as the long drive back to Seattle was about to begin...

 

 

I had arrived in Charlotte on April 22 after the Big Drive from Seattle, and now nephews Will & Ryan, Sister Jan and Beloved Mother were bidding me farewell. Then Bigfoot pulled out of Strawberry Hill...

 

       

 

 

 

Through Charlotte...

       

 

 

Lowe's Motor Speedway, on the outskirts of Charlotte...

 

   

Passing Lake Norman, then the Catawba River... toward the Appalachian foothills...