October 28, 2010 - Thursday

     We slept late and just took it easy.  Shortly before noon we decided to go find "Mast General Store" and Wal-Mart - both of which were in Waynesville.  Somehow we ended up bypassing Waynesville and ended up back on 40 headed to Asheville.  We only had a drawing - not a map.  So somehow we went to the next town and kept driving.  It wasn't too bad - we found a Sonic!  We stopped and ate and then headed on with the search.  After several changes trying to find Main St. - Mast General Store and Main St Loop -
Wal-Mart we finally found the historic downtown Waynesville area.

Court house in Waynesville, NC

     Very quaint - old fashioned downtown Main Street with lots and lots of people and little parking.  We were lucky as we pulled up a car in the handicap parking pulled out.  There were lots of Art stores with beautiful pictures.  Of course because it was tourist area - very pricey!
     We found Mast and explored all 3 floors.  There was a little bit of everything - top floor was camping, hiking supplies - main floor was mostly clothes.  I thought the third floor was the most interesting.  about half the size of the are was covered with big wooden barrels of candy!  They claim there are more than 500 varieties.  Lots of old fashioned and hard to find candies. 
     They also had an area of toys - also old fashioned ones - made me think of the ones we had when we were young.  All the floors in Mast were the old wooden ones and when you were downstairs you could hear the constant "creak, creak, creaking".  Kind of a weird sound especially this close to Halloween!
     After we left Mast we kept following Main Street and finally found Wal-Mart.  We needed a few frozen meals, milk and water.  Sam also needed more socks - it gets cold at night!
     We went back to the RV and enjoyed the fact that we had cable and could watch TV and see what was going on in the world.  When we got hungry we heated up leftovers from "Snappy's.  Still couldn't eat it all!  But just as good heated up!
     TV - Bed - reading a good book - yup - this is the life!