August 28-30 Sarah and Hans, our spring camping partners at Pilot Mountain let us know they would be camping at Lake Norman State Park with their two girls, Reagan and Quinn, at the end of August and wondered if we’d like to join them. We jumped on the opportunity so Hans went ahead and reserved […]
This picture should have been inserted in that last post.
August 2-8 The next morning dawned bright and warm and after breakfast, we decided to split the day into two halves, the first part being a drive down to Fort Fisher in order to take the ferry over to Southport, a charming town on the mainland side of the Cape Fear River. The second part […]
August 2-8 The month of July would fly by as we engaged in our normal activities with one big difference. During a gathering at the Wine Vault with former colleagues at UNC Charlotte, the prospect of my returning to campus in an interim role was broached, as the Director of Parking and Transportation Services. I […]
July 2-5 Our call to stay at the house that Saturday night turned out to be a good one. It rained off and on for most of the evening and to the best of our knowledge the fireworks show downtown was cancelled. With a show to see the next evening, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, we didn’t […]
July 2-5 As we had prepared for this weekend we were looking for some options that would involve physical activity that all could participate in. When we’d visited a few years back with friends for a beer based weekend, one of the couples had gone rafting on the French Broad River. With this in mind […]
June 25 One of our goals for this year, in addition to taking a number of short (one and two week) trips was to spend more weekends camping and to do day trips during the week. One of the types of bike rides we try to seek out are on the groomed paths and trails […]
June 11-14 It took a bit of time navigating on local two lane roads to reach Interstate 95 for our 3 ½ hour drive south to Fernandina Beach. Once on the highway we made good time until we hit multiple sets of driving rainstorms so fierce we, and many others on the road were forced […]
An article in the August issue of Charlotte Magazine, Last Land on 485: The Oehler Family Farm, recounts the changing nature of Charlotte and its impact on those who have lived here for many years. It evokes a number of thoughts I’ve been pondering since our arrival, most based on my observations and grounded in […]
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