Category Greensboro

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 […]

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 […]

East Coast Fall 2021 – Durham, Summerfield, Charleston, and Fernandina Beach

November 3-8 We made the now familiar drive up to Durham to spend one night there as we continued to work on Joanna’s mom’s placement and the next morning drove the short distance to Ann and Rendy’s where we would spend just two nights.  It would be a low-key visit, with a couple of highlights, […]

North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Five

June 3 – 14, 2021 Our drive to Greensboro (Summerfield) to Ann and Rendy’s would only take about ninety minutes, so again we had no need to hurry that Tuesday morning.  This gave us a chance to do a load of laundry (one advantage of staying in an Airbnb unit is often some form of […]