Ashland, VA
Latitude 37.45 degrees
Longitude 77.28 degrees
Reporting from a new state. We started back in Charlotte, when we decided not to go back to the comic convention--we saw all we were going to see, and we had all the fun. So, we moved onto Sunday brunch at Vicious Biscuit. Wow, that was a LOT of food. We shared beignets, I had a "Fat Boy" (fried chicken biscuit with pimento cheese), and Mindy had the "Vicious Benny" (Eggs Benedict in biscuit form). It was great, but we had to continue with food comas.
Our next stops involved giant furniture--Thomasville, a quiet town that used to crank out furniture, has a giant chair that Presidents have sat in:
High Point, a surprisingly large town with tons of design shops, has a giant chest of drawers (which has a bureau inside it--there's a whole saga at roadsideamerica.com):
And Jamestown has a giant highboy inside a gate for a complex of furniture stores:
Meanwhile, Greensboro has a downtown square devoted to O. Henry:
Crossing into Virginia, there's an old shoe factory that is now a hotel. Bring in the giant heels!
We decided to shoot for the Richmond area tonight, so we're ready for tomorrow--a state house, and the reason this is called #timeshared. We finished the day with serviceable Mexican food--nothing to write home about.