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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 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 […]
East Coast Fall 2021 – Durham, NC, Part Two
October 24-28 As mentioned in the prior post, later that day we ventured downtown to eat and drink at the Durham Food Hall, which opened in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and yet survives to this day. We grabbed a couple of seats at the large bar and after ordering a round of […]
East Coast Fall 2021 – Durham, NC, Part One
October 24-28 The six-hour drive to Durham went smoothly and we arrived at Nicole’s by midafternoon, ready to see what the week to follow would bring us, both with the car and Joanna’s Mom. Anticipating that we might be leaving the Highlander at the body shop the next day after getting the estimate, we emptied […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Seven
June 3 – 14, 2021 The next day Joanna picked up her mom and drove her to Winston Salem to meet up with Joanna’s middle sister Debi. Faced with another free day, I’d contacted Dan, a former student union colleague, to meet for a beer or two in Durham. I’ve known Dan, and his wife […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Six
June 3 – 14, 2021 A short drive of an hour plus to Durham awaited us so we dawdled that last morning at Ann and Rendy’s before departing around noon. Knowing dinner would be later in the day, we stopped at a McDonald’s just off the I-40 for food to tide us over until then. […]
Outer Banks and More, Blacksburg
May 30 – June 14 Elements of this trip kept changing as we got closer to taking off, and we would continue to make plans on the fly as we went, much as we did in Europe last year. The impetus for it was a facilities management conference sponsored by ACUI and APPA at Virginia […]
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