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What Exactly is Home Anymore?
While the rest of the passengers pause as they come out of the jetway at Atlanta International Airport to get their bearings straight, I only pause to take a big sigh of relief and continue on to the...
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North Carolina was Cool Before The Hunger Games
Yes, I did in fact watch The Hunger Games on the day it came out. I read the entire series in a couple weeks, searched every day for two months for new movie clips and trailers, and even took a quiz to...
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Is Travel an Act of Irresponsibility?
It’s a moment of decision – one that is signified by my nervous foot tapping on the floor board and finger tapping on the keyboard. Through my rearview mirror I can see the sun start to peek over the...
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Living my Childhood Pastimes at Age 30
“Son, what’s the spread on today’s Duke/UNC game?,” my father would ask me, as he threw back a swig of mountain dew and a handful of peanuts. I’d read the spreads in the local paper while our Ford LTD...
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Life Lessons from Missing the Train…Twice
“It’s already left,” the conductor replied out of the window to me when I asked if this was the 11:15 train. I looked above me at the clock that read 11:14, then down at my ticket that read 11:15, and...
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What my Mom and Travel Taught me about Thanksgiving
It was one year ago this week, that I remember sitting in the living room of my sister’s house, as my mother and I did something together that we hadn’t done since I lived at home: watch the Carolina...
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Celebrating Craft Beer with North Carolina Beer Month
Y’all, it’s the first week of April, and do you know what that means? No, I’m not talking about MLB opening week (though that’s important in its own right!). Rather, it’s time for North Carolina Beer...
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Barbecue and Beer Tour of North Carolina
Y’all, barbecue is to North Carolina what pizza is to New York. And while many of the top barbecue destinations, like Texas, have a particular style, North Carolina has two styles. That’s how serious...
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