We got up early and rode on the Greenway to downtown for morning coffee. Cups is a favorite of Billie and JD. There’s a tall shelf where regular customers can leave their own cup. Coffee is ordered by cup size: A, B, or C. Get it?
The Roanoke Greenway is about half completed with about 35 miles of paved trail. 
We stopped at Black Dog Salvage (of DIY Network’s Salvage Dawgs fame) to look around. 
This is one of Thais’s favorite kinds of stores and she would love this one, it’s huge and things are organized and well-presented. 
Yes, there is a black dog. 
In the evening we went to Hits for ice cream and to listen to the Flaky Biscuits play. Billie works with Jeff (second from the left) who learned to play the guitar just 5 years ago. 
A local college student played the hammer dulcimer – beautiful sound. 
The Roanoke star on the hill above – the world’s largest fre-standing illuminated man-made star built in 1949. It’s 88.5 feet tall and is made from 2000 feet of neon tubing. 
Miles = 16
arletelouise 
Hi Arlete! Just today I bought a book that says it solves the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, a story that has always intrigues me. It looks like beautiful country. And by the way, what is a turntable?
Hope you good!!
Julie
Hi Julie, I also was fascinated by the Lost Colony of Roanoke, but Billie says the colony was not here but was on Roanoke Island in N Carolina near Kill Devil Hills. A turntable is a device which can turn the locomotive around so it can go in the reverse direction.