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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 20 – 24, 2024 Once Janet joined us, we drove the short distance to Smithville for our meal at the Inn. The original was built in 1787 by James Baremore as one room on a well –traveled stagecoach route and it may not have been planned as an inn. But houses were far between […]
September 20 – 24, 2024 After our long day out at Gettysburg our next one would be low key, centered on getting a bike ride in on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) and exploring the area around the Airbnb. It had rained overnight so we waited a bit for the pavement to dry before […]
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