Monthly Archives: January 2025

East Coast Fall 2024, Charlotte, Part Three

October 2 – 8, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, we drove over to Lyndsey and Dave’s house in Plaza Midwood and after an initial round of conversational getting caught up, hopped in the car again to head over to one of our favorite breweries, Birdsong Brewing.  One of the first three breweries in […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Charlotte, Part Two

October 2 – 8, 2024 We had full day scheduled starting the next morning, with a breakfast meeting with our Charlotte cycling friends up in the farthest northern corner of Concord at an obscure, but definitely worth the money establishment, the Crack of Dawn Diner.   Normally we meet with this group of friends on a […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Charlotte, Part One

October 2 – 8, 2024 We had a relatively short drive to Kannapolis the next day for an overnight at Debi’s house (Joanna’s middle sister) but first we needed make multiple stops to begin closing out Joanna’s Mom’s (Joan’s) estate.  This would involve a visit to her bank branch in Huntersville to clean out a […]

East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part Two

September 26 – 30, 2024 The next day, Sunday, we set out with Nicole and one of her friends to attend the annual Durham Pride Parade sponsored by the LGBTQ Center of Durham.  This long-standing event traces its history to a statewide parade that began in 1986.  We arrived at one leg of the parade […]