Waiting for Peter at the diminutive Charlottesville airport (complete with crafty dioramas depicting the history of the region), I expected he would show up in a sleek, 1960's sports car. He pulled up in a beat-up black pick-up truck, explaining that he used to own such a car but it bottomed out on the dirt road up to his house. I was now thoroughly intrigued.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — First stop for the first couple's weekend getaway on Friday was a roadside restaurant that President Barack Obama visited duri...