SpringHill Suites Charlotte Ballantyne
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Its an adventure !!
Swami Ronnie says, "Its not an adventure until **** hits the fan".
I started driving early morning at around 6 AM today because I had a 12 hour long drive ahead of me to reach Charlotte, NC to meet Vivek. He's a friend that I have known from Seattle and he now lives in Charlotte with his wife, Laxmi.
90 minutes or so into driving and I got busted for speeding ...
Austin to San Jose
"Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking."
-Antonio Machado, Cantores
4:15 am alarm....flight to Charlotte, NC
The flight over was great. made some new friends. I met Bill (not Clinton) from Arkansas, who lives in Costa Rica 4 months out of the year. He makes pool cues and tells me he makes a ...
In and around ‘The Queen’
... the Linwood Access Area and ends at the summit of Crowders Mountain. Just before reaching the summit, hikers will climb up 336 wooden steps.
The views were awesome and actually if you took it steady the climb wasn’t that bad – don’t think I fancy going up the sheer cliff though, we’re told it’s popular with climbers and there were a few ...
Dinner & Lunch
Saturday evening was spent with Heidi and Steve, ex New Tribes missionaries. We met Heidi in the car park at Jaars while we were visiting the Alphabet museum there. They invited us to a family dinner which was wonderful. Kerrin had someone her own age to hang with - I'm told that 13 yr olds don't play!! They had a lodger who was into IT and games, so Tim slotted right in and was on one of his PC's in no time! It was ...
Heading North to get South
... nice for a change...
When we came to pay for our groceries, Kerrin and I stood a little dumbfounded, as the tellers had no platform for you to place your groceries on, so we just kinda stood there trying to figure this out. We obviously looked like hill billies again because some kind packer promptly came over to us and removed my basket from my hand and ushered us over to the till point. The basket goes on ...