Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Friday, October 19, 2007

Shopping in Charlottesville


We spend the morning kind of lolling around. Splendid day. The view from our site is of a wonderful old manor house set on hundreds of rolling acres of vibrant foliage.

Set out again for Charlottesville and find a fabulous series of shops called XXXXXXXXXXX. There are a number of wonderful food purveyors and we pick up some unusual spices and fusion sauces I hadn't seen before. But I know in my heart, we won't be using them on this trip. With a car and in a rather happening kind of town, I know we will be eating out!

Rick drops me off at the Second Yard and takes off on some made-up errands. I spend the next 3 hours analyzing the merits of thousands of glorious fabrics. Make my selections, Rick picks me up and we head over to the pedestrian mall. It's a pleasant October evening so we sit outside and have drinks and a wonderful crab, gorgonzola nacho platter at XXXXXXX . We then go in to check out the restaurant and spy billard tables. For some inexplicable reason, we spent the next 2 hours playing pool, sharing a burger and having a very good time!

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