High Points in High Point, N.C.
Business took me on a quick weekend trip to North Carolina, and I was able to squeeze in a few forays for burgers, beers, and barbecue around my work obligations. High Point, N.C., is the …
Tag: North Carolina
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Select Sites Around Raleigh, North Carolina
We spent several days bopping around Raleigh, North Carolina. We did several walks hoping to see birds and got pretty lucky, primarily in Battle Park in Rocky Mount (east of Raleigh), William B. Umstead State …
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, is free and has three Monets on display. It has a number of other big names, but those somehow didn’t have much of interest to me. …
Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park
We found the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park on AtlasObscura.com and I was a little hesitant about it. Often I feel like I’m looking at a junkyard when you get to one of the site’s offbeat …
Exploring the Outer Banks
This was our first time visiting the Outer Banks area of North Carolina – or OBX, if you’re in the know – and we liked it quite a bit, but probably because we went out …
Wright Brothers National Memorial
The Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, is where the first powered flight happened in 1903. You can walk the short flight path of that first flight, and then marvel that …
Ava Gardner Museum
Looking to break up the long drive from South Carolina to Virginia, we found ourselves at the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, North Carolina. Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922 – 1990) grew up in the vicinity …
O. Winston Link & Roanoke History Museum
I’m not even sure how the O. Winston Link & Roanoke History Museum wound up on our radar, but it was a quite a gem. The museum features the work of photographer O. Winston Link …
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Scenes from Asheville, North Carolina
Though Doug and I have been to Asheville before, we steered the van there again because it’s where Doug’s lifetime friend Andrew lives. Doug and Andrew have been friends since before junior high, which means …
The North Carolina Arboretum
The North Carolina Arboretum, just southwest of Asheville, was a disappointment to me; I was worried that I was getting a little snobbish on this topic, so I gave it a really good effort, walking …