Final leg east today will find me meeting up with sisters I have not seen in a couple of years, along with some other family. Looking forward to it and hope the stoplight gods are with me as I push through southern Virginia.

Spent a day and a half in High Point NC, seemed like a good place to learn about the current state of furniture. So I learned a lot, it's an interesting town with people easy to talk to. No new furniture is cheap, but I did see stuff from several outfits making real wood furniture, and got helpful advice on sleepers from a very knowledgeable fellow.

Also saw lots of crazy stuff, giant princesss beds for McMansions, antique stores full of big in-your-face objects-to-impress. One of the weirdest things was a line of real-world furniture with 'pickled' finish--which makes it look like cheap laminate! We're coming full circle on phoniness I guess.