Day 106-111, Nov 9-13. Rest days in Cary, NC

We have been having a wonderful time staying with my sister and brother in law in Cary. Mostly we have been goofing off, but some "important" stuff has been happening:

Alicia and Gordon took us to the North Carolina Museum of Art for an exhibit of Art Deco cars from the 1930s and 40s.


1938 Talbot-Lago T-150C-SS Teardrop


1936 Peugeot 402 Darl'mat Coupe





1941 Indian Model 441


1938 Delahaye 135M Roadster




Only one ever built. It was destroyed; this is a hand built, working reproduction.

We took many more pictures. Amazing examples of art triumphing over function.


We also went to Wilmington, NC to see the battleship. USS North Carolina BB-55. What a magnificent dinosaur. We crawled all over her. Margaret tells me that her cell phone counted 5,000 steps during the visit.






 Looking forward from the bridge


 On the bow, looking back at the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_North_Carolina_(BB-55)

One of the reasons we have delayed our departure for points south, is to attend Friendsgiving. This is an annual Thanksgiving style get together, hosted by my sister's son, David. He and his wife, Bailey, are very active in local sports clubs, so they have a lot of friends; about 40 or 50 people were there. David provides turkey and ham, and everyone else brings a dish. Margaret and I were looking at celebrating Thanksgiving on the road in some strange town. This was an opportunity we could not pass up.

We also had some maintenance to take care of. The hoses from our Camalbak bladders have become stiff from UV damage, so we decided to go to REI and replace them. Surprise, two weeks ago, Camalbak began replacing the hoses with slightly larger diameter ones. They claim 20% increase in quantity of water per sip, but now our tube connectors are too small. Surprise, when we went back to REI to get new connectors, they had none. They expected them in about two weeks. We decided to replace the bladders at REI, and went to Lowe's to get a connector to splice two tubes together as well as some alligator clips to fashion into tubing clips, as our old clips were now also too small. A simple job made complex, but completed none the less.

We plan to leave Cary on Tuesday, 11/15. We had originally planned to leave Monday, but a 70% chance of rain has dissuaded us.