Re: 'Twas a fine week, it was

Glad you and your wife enjoyed the Ohio Valley. Marietta and Williamstown
are a lot of fun especially when the Delta or Mississippi Queens are in
town.

AL



"Ed Duncan" <eduncan74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1157335931.047234.140600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings all! Got home about 3hrs ago, finally ready to greet my
friends/enemies here. Sat 8/26 off to Williamstown, WVa for the Mrs.
This being a tour of the Fenton Art Glass factory there...the following
Monday. Sun. 2/27 we pretty much hung around Marietta, OH, visited (5
yrs since there) the shops open. Fenton tour was great, course Nan
spent some money there!. Headed South around noon the 28th and crashed
at Statesville, NC, of course after I did buy a couple bundles of JR
2nds. We had called the Tarlers (Cornell&Diehl) ahead and had a
wonderful visit, tour of the plant, even a short visit with SamLearned,
who temporarily makes pipes in their "attic". I picked up my order of
"10Russians, 6 English samplers and managed to score 2lbs of Lane
CrownAchievement for a great price. Headed out around noon and got to
my steps in Shallotte, NC, about a 6hr trip. Craig gave us a great
route to eliminate the Charlotte by-pass.
We decided to cut visit short with the family, watching for "Ernesto"
to hit FL.....so instead of the planned Thurs visit, spent a couple hrs
with Sykes, Bear & Todd at LowCountry Tobbaco/Cigar, the B&M name for
smokingpipes/com. Picked up my ordered lb of Abingdon, did not find a
hoped for decent estate Viprati. We left the family mid-Thursday
morning and easily beat the storm, making it to just past
Charlotteville,Va. (Soon thereafter, Wilimington,NC got totally
hammered with rain).Then back on 81 to Binghamton,NY, 2 days with Nan's
mom (90 & still kickin' a**). Sun/today...to Utica, picked up dog and
headed home.

All in all, nice vacation. Just glad we decided to head back ahead of
the storm, as if we'd a followed it...lotsa our roads were flooded,
esp. State Rd. 40 from Wilmington to I-95

Real tired now, so gonna grab a couple beers...see ya'll hopefully for
the morning smoke.

Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
still pipesmoker since '62, brain addled/mindless forever



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