Another wind telephone road trip!

I took another trip to seek out wind phones. It didn’t start like that, but that’s what the trip became.

I have cousins in Greensboro, North Carolina, and my dad wanted to visit them for the first time since the 1970s. He wanted all of us to go, however, but I said I couldn’t go because of work. He responded that he’d fly me over there, and the trip was on! Getting there was awful – our first officer timed out after a bunch of delays, so we got to Charlotte two hours late – so my parents decided they’d drive me back a day early. Another wind phone road trip commenced!

While my dad and sister visited my cousins Heidi and Jackie, my mom and I made a triangle in the Triangle. We found wind telephones in Greensboro, Raleigh, and Apex. All of them were so different, and sadly, the one in Apex was abandoned. There’s a full red, British phone booth sitting off a state highway in a very rural, beautiful area, no phone inside. I got photos of all of them – they’re on the page for wind telephones.

Since I was driving home with my parents, we went through Marshall, about thirty minutes north of Asheville, and visited a now-private wind phone there. It looks exactly like the original wind telephone! Another sad story, however – the neighbors don’t like any traffic from visitors on their one-lane, private road, so the steward is having to close down and sell it. I wish we were closer to purchase it and bring it to Alive Hospice – it would be beautiful there. Again, pictures of it are on this page.

Of note, I graduated from my master’s program last week, and I posted about it and our wind phone on our community group on Facebook on Monday. As of today, it has 650 positive reactions! I was stunned! I’ve been contacted by another reporter about possibly doing a story on it – I hope it pans out!

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