Heritage Farm

The Heritage Farm is a retreat/camping/day recreation area created by the Sadler family, where they live and host guests for swimming in their man-made lake with a sandy beach, camping (though this is presently closed, and will re-open in the next couple years, the Sadlers allowed me to camp. They even fed me dinner, breakfast and washed my clothes to support the cause.) The pictures convey the beauty and natural luxury of this retreat center in the middle of golf and pine tree country.

An array of animal characters abounded at the Heritage: Swayze the dalmation, radar the attack/guest alarm dog who usually bites but was quite amiable to me, an awesome, full-of-antics, FAT black cat, the dwarfy pony, riding horses...

Amy Sadler was my wonderful hostess, cooking dinner and breakfast along with Robert. She had fabulous stories of long-distance horseback riders (see long riders guild link to the left) who rode from Alaska to Argentina, and those who rode around the world in horse-pulled carriage. Amy is also an avid geneologist, and is doing research into my Polish paternal background. Heritage Farm can be contacted at: 910-949-2853 or seitzamy@hotmail.com (Amy Sadler). Address: "The Heritage," Whispering Pines, N.C. 28327.

Whispering Pines

Pictures from a small town in southern NC with world-famous golf courses. Cotton fields abound, as well.

Sanford

Sanford is a southern NC town historic for is position as a train station. Pictured are the historic railroad house, the Atlantic and Western Railroad Engine, and one train in present-day action (background).

San Lee State Park

South of Moncure is a state park region called San Lee. Trees and landscapes here are beautiful, and the nature center in the park has a scavenger bird collection including the turkey vulture pictured.

Moncure, NC

In a small town called Moncure, I camped at a park next to a dam, and a river. Beautiful, free, relaxing. People were fishing there, but little traffic.

Apex, NC

Apex is a small, growing town just west of Raleigh on the Bicycle Route 1. I ate at a Mexican restaurant, explained global warming and the Climate Stewardship Act in Spanish to the management and workers, and three signed the petition.

Marcia Timmel's House, Host in Garner, NC

Friend of family, former St. Al's (Wash. DC) co-parishoner Marcia Timmel hosted me in this house south of Raleigh, amongst a trailer park including many latino migrant workers. Marcia is a seventh-grade teacher at the local middle school. She lives with her daughter, singer and theatre girl, Ariel.