Day five

Super mellow day.  We left Culpepper VA around 10:30 am (not in a hurry obviously) and started down South taking all the little, little roads which led us into places like Cuckoo and Goochland.  We were in heaven.  Gloria loved every home she saw.  There were plantations with acres and acres of lawns growing right up to the tree trunks and all of it is green.  Driving through the small towns, Gloria took around 200 pictures of every house she saw and believe it or not  she loved them all. Don't worry, she promised not to post them all but she will publish a book of her dream houses when she returns home.  Somewhere, we stopped in a little hamlet and an elderly gentleman asked us for a ride.  He walked with a cane so we said "why not" we can defend ourselves.  He introduced himself as Willie Jackson and only wanted to go about 3 miles over a railroad track which were the only words we could understand.  His southern drawl was impossible to understand but we managed to get him where he needed to go.

We arrived in Selma, North Carolina around our bewitching hour and got this very cheap, very rundown "Days Inn" no-tel mo-tel. (a whopping $48 a night).  It was worth exactly what we paid.  Need I say more.  We didn't want to hang out right at that moment because it's hot and sticky and the sun is still up so we tried to find a store and the historic downtown.  It took an hour but we finally found a store but we never found an "historical downtown" or any downtown per se.  Couldn't wait to leave.  We are heading to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina tomorrow and may take a gambling cruise but who knows.  Do you?