June 28, 29 2012 Mount Airy, North Carolina

Mount Airy is Andy Griffith’s home town, and the town that Mayberry is modeled after. We came to pick up mail, see the Andy Griffith museum , go to the grocery store and do laundry. It is 100+ degrees, we didn’t get out for much more. Some of the buildings are the originals and some were made to look like the show.

These are original buildings. Snappy Lunch was a real place before the show, don’t know about Floyd’s barber shop.  A replica of Andy’s patrol car. They do tours of the Andy Griffith sites in the patrol cars, with a member of the Mayberry police driving. This one sits in front of the diner all the time.

John having a pork chop sandwich, Snappy’s is famous for them.  John chatting with Andy.

Sue chatting with Andy. John visiting Floyd’s barber shop. He was disappointed that there was no bench.

They take their music serious here, free lessons for youth on Thursdays. A statue of Andy and Opie.The plaque in front of the statue. The museum. No photos allowed inside.

John posing with Gomer, and John, I mean Barney getting a kiss!

Aunt Bea’s restaurant, Wally’s service station. The police car tours are based out of Wally’s. The lady inside liked my necklace and bought a pendant and set of earrings from me! I made exactly what I paid for John’s pork chop sandwich, our admissions to the two museums for us and a Mayberry Fire Dept. T-shirt for John.

The court house, John is in Otis’s chair and Andy’s office.

Wally’s tow truck. The sign for Mayberry RV park.

The bus at Mayberry RV park, not much like the picture.  Pretty grim after the nice mountain campsites, no trees, no pool, only  1 shower. 103.7 degrees here today. Good thing they had 50 amp power, we could run both AC units- brought it down to 78 inside. We are going back to the mountains tomorrow.  Downtown Winston Salem, North Carolina, seen from the highway. We went to Costco, it was too hot to do anything else.

Pilot mountain seen thru the windshield on the way back.  Yup, we stocked up, don’t need to come back to town for awhile.

Later in the evening a huge wind storm rampaged thru the campground.  80 mph wind gusts. Rocked the bus. John had just put all the awnings in so we would be ready to leave early in the am. Good thing, the wind would have ripped them off.  He even brought the slides in, so it would not damage them.  The wind did blow the awnings off another bus near us. The building with a metal roof, the roof was coming off.  We heard the next day that the storm caused a lot of damage. Power out all over the east coast from the downed trees. I guess we were lucky the RV park had no trees, we might have been wearing some of the branches.