Category North Carolina
North Carolina Fall and Cisco Fest 2025, Part Two
October 23 – November 9 We’d have just one night with Ann and Rendy and so a quick drink after our arrival set us up for dinner at a local favorite Ridge Shrimp and Oyster. It’s a single store wide location that doesn’t take reservations and so, it not being Tuesday Shrimp Night) we were […]
North Carolina Fall and Cisco Fest 2025, Part One
October 23 – November 9 Later in the fall we embarked on one or our usual runs to North Carolina to visit friends and family, starting in Raleigh and ending in Charlotte. As with prior trips here, we generally don’t do a lot of sightseeing and so posts in the past tend to just feature […]
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 […]
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 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Durham, Part One
September 26 – 30, 2024 Our drive to Durham would take about five hours and as luck would have it, take us through Norfolk right around lunch time. So, we made the easy decision to stop at Doumar’s Cones and Barbecue which we visited in 2003 during a road trip with Bev and her boys […]
Spring North Carolina 2023, Part Three
April 18 – May 2 The next day was full of errands Rendy needed to run and just generally spending time together until it was time for dinner when Ann joined us, and we journeyed to The Prescott which also happened to be located in Kernersville. Touted as a farm to table dining experience, I […]
Spring North Carolina 2023, Part Two
April 18 – May 2 As mentioned in the earlier post, as soon as we pulled up to Wye Hill Brewing, I recognized having been there before. It was in 2009 when we lived in Charlotte and I had just purchased our 2007 BMW 335 and took off on a Friday to drive to Raleigh […]
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