My wife is from California and we moved back to NC many years ago..

Bit of an adjustment for her at first, but now she's the one with the shotgun that asks strangers to "state yur bizness" that wander down our private road.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> jest kiddin' she don't get the shotgun out 'cept for special circumstances..

We have a 'special area for all the Yankees that move in... the city is Cary, NC.. local joke Cary stands for "Containment Area for Rolocated Yankees"

Heck we even got our own comic strip.. Kudzu comic writer Doug Marlette lives just up the road from me in "Bypass".. I mean Hillsborough..

The most popular name for creeks in NC.. "Still Creek" from the umm "distilleries" that use to operate on them..

Heck we even got our own local who did good designing duds to make sure we're all spiffed up... Use to buy my fancy $600.00 suits from Maurice years ago when dressin' for work was the thing..

Some folks who lived in Chapel Hill like to wander about but they always seem to come back.. Used to be neat seeing Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" motor home parked in the church parking lot when he come visit he brother Maurice who ran a local book store here.. He came back for the last time, and is buried here in a cemetary next to the UNC campus..

Posted this a long time ago, but a little bit of true history about my uncle Berl Eddleman I wrote Ken Willis about his article and learned that a fair amount of detail in this writup came from none other than Junior Johnson.. Things have changed a bit since then..

Have a sister in law in California that asked us one time if we had shopping malls back here... I said heck yes... we even got some paved roads to some of them.. She don't get out much..

Who knows you might run into Barney Fife over in Mayberry <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />