Visiting Our Grand-dog and Daughter in Raleigh NC…

After a short drive south we arrived at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh NC. We plan to spend a good amount of time here as we will be visiting our daughter and her husband who live near Raleigh NC. The drive was thankfully pretty uneventful and as we pulled into the fairgrounds,  we called the security guard, set up in our site and paid for a 10 day stay.

Our plan is to enjoy the Raleigh NC area during the weekdays and spend time with our daughter, Katie, on the weekends. We naturally fell into a daily routine pretty quickly as most mornings we lounge around after enjoying our coffee and breakfast. We also catch up on the world events and sometime discuss what’s going on. Afterward we nearly always go for a brisk morning walk of a mile or two.

Sometimes we stretch our walk out a bit and walk across the Fairgrounds over to the North Carolina State Football stadium. Normally at this time of year the weekends would be active as football would have kicked off and crowds of students and alumni would be seen everywhere all decked out in the school’s colors….. not so this fall. Not many people around at all… sigh.

Weekends we drive over to Katie and Brooks to get together for some fine cooking. We have made a deal that we will cook one night and they will cook one night to get some diversity in our meals. Meal planning during the week has become a fun event all by itself. We also finally met our granddog, Benny, for the first time.

Benny is a full blooded Corgi and about a year old so he is still in his puppy phase. He is very well mannered except for the occasional unwanted bark. We have been enjoying some doggie time playing with Benny and taking him for walks. We do miss having a dog but until we are out of the RV we have no plans to get another one.

We took Benny out for his first disc golf event as Katie, Brooks, Sharon and myself drove over to the Apex Nature Park to play a round of disc golf. For those who don’t know, truly anyone can play disc golf. It is basically free (you will need to buy some discs) and there are some really nice parks nearly everywhere we have travelled. It is great exercise and wonderful family fun.

The star meal the first weekend was smoked pulled pork butt. I bought a couple of 12 pound pork butts we doctored up with ours and Brooks’ favorite rubs then Brooks set up his smoker and we smoked them about 12 hours. Man were they great. We and the kids sure will enjoy the small bags we froze for a day in the future when we have a hankering for some smoked meat…

NOTE: We are currently in Raleigh, NC probably until the end of September…