Eastern NC Tour Week

It came as a surprise to Russ that I was leaving this morning for my Eastern NC Tour. He said, “You don’t have a class today on your website.” I asked him if he was only using my website as the way to keep track of me?

I told him that the class I was teaching today was at a club that did not allow non-club members to join so I didn’t put it on the website. Not every class I teach is made public since they are private. Always consider only about half my classes are public. I easily have at least twice as many classes as you can see.

I drove down to this private class in New Bern. I taught it and then got in my car to drive to my friends Jane and Warren Brother’s house in La Grange, my eastern North Carolina Home away from home.

As I was driving the deserted stretch of 70 between New Bern and Kinston I noticed that there were emergency vehicles on every over pass with their lights on and big American flags. It went on forever. Since it was the middle of no where, the over passes were many miles apart, yet on each one there were the trucks with lights.

I asked Warren if he had ever seen that and he said yes, but neither of us knew why. I looked it up online and it turns out to be the custom when a first responder passes away and their body is being driven on that road to go to their final resting place.

It was a lot of vehicles. A nice tribute, but I hope no emergencies were happening at that time since so many first responders were out on the over passes.

I am always grateful to Jane and Warren for having me. It makes life easier that I don’t go home and turn around and have to drive back out here. Tomorrow will be my big Kinston Day. It’s more like a celebration for me than a class. I need to rest up for all the fun we will have.