Alas, it's beautiful country out here as pretty much everywhere you look you can see the Blue Ridge mountain range. Today, I spent some time in the town of Appomattox, VA. This city is known, as many of you recall from American history, as the site of the Confederacy's surrender to the Union in 1865 to end the "War of Northern aggression," as it's referred to around heeya. Being honest, the town was nothing special, but the people were pretty nice so I guess it's ok in my book. Lately, I've been all over Civil War country as I go back and forth over the Mason-Dixon line (a.k.a. the PA-MD border), constantly seeing signs along the Interstate for battlefields. Not only that, a couple weeks back, I worked with a sales rep who was taking part in a reenactment that weekend! So, you could say the people get into it a little bit. Whether it's Gettysburg, Antietam, or some of the others that were fought up here, this region is full of history. I'm glad it's full of something, because cell phone towers it is not!
I'll be in Roanoke again tomorrow, before I head down to Charlotte for the weekend (about 2 1/2 hrs). Next week, I'll kick things off in Lexington Park, MD near the Chesapeake Bay, before heading down along the coastline to Virginia Beach and closing out the week in Wilmington, NC. I'm looking forward to finally being in the Carolinas again, for work, anyway.
I want to send along birthday wishes (yesterday) to my dad, as well as congratulations to Stephanie on purchasing her first home in Charlotte, and Ryan and Amber for buying a house out in Lodi, CA.
Hopefully everyone else is doing well and having a great summer! Thanks for reading.
On the road,
Matt
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