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East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part Two
October18- 20, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we had one last stop on the agenda for the day, and that was at the Oakleigh House, the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The name for the […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part One
October18- 20, 2024 After straightening up the Airbnb and bidding farewell to the rest of our group, we hit the road for the six-hour drive to Spanish Fort, our home for the next three nights. We’ve spent quite a bit of time traveling many sections of the I-10, including at least three full runs from […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Fernandina Beach
October15- 17, 2024 After our bike ride, we cleaned up, packed and hit the breakfast room and then made our way the short hour down to St. Mary’s, Georgia for three nights at Brittany’s Place Airbnb which we’d booked after our initial lodging choice, closer to Amelia Island, had to cancel due to flooding from […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Jekyll Island
October14- 15, 2024 The drive to Jekyll Island the next day would be a relatively easy three hours, meaning we could enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the Lost Dog Café in Folly Beach (thanks to Carolyn for recommending it) and a bit of sightseeing in the afternoon. We’d last been to Folly Beach in 2015 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Charleston
October12 – 13, 2024 Our drive to Charleston would last a little under four hours and take place mostly on the road we’d taken to Bonnie’s place at Sunset Beach. Soon enough we landed at the Best Western Airport Inn and Suites, our home for the next two nights. We’ve accrued quite a few reward […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Wilmington
October 9 – 11, 2024 We’d be spending three nights in Wilmington at longtime friend Carolyn’s house, who I first met through my professional involvement, the Association of College Unions International (ACUI). When we moved to Charlotte in 2008, she was the Executive Director of Student Life at UNC Wilmington and later would become the […]
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 […]
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