North Carolina

So far, I’ve only passed through here…

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Phase 1
  2. Phase 2
  3. Phase 3
  4. Initial/Overall (Images Begin)
  5. Best Hotels
  6. 2024/+

 

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Phase 1:

I passed through this state a four times on road trips.  The first was when I moved from Texas to Virginia, the second and third during a visit down to Parris Island for a new Marine’s graduation ceremony, and the fourth during my move from Virginia all the way out to California.  Stops were few, and contact little.  I got neither a good nor bad vibe from the place, and never thought to return; it felt like a blank spot.

 

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Phase 2:

Leading the nation in furniture, brick, and textile production, I’ll be going back to check out the most successful farms and factories in those industries.  North Carolina is also well-known for its blueberries and strawberries; those are two of my favorites, the former of which being very helpful as an antioxidant applied as a natural remedy for stomach aches.  I may even stay for a season if there is enough big business to be done now that I am free and pleasantly solo.

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2024 October 6 Sunday update:  hurricane Helene damage/modification

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Phase 3:

Charlotte is likely where I’ll fly into and start.  Whatever historic, luxurious, and towering buildings it boasts, I’ll be sure to visit and learn about.  As always, I wait only for the state’s most beautiful girls to extend their kind invitations and worthy offers.  I stand ready.

 

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Initial/Overall:

gallery (until my photos of expeditions to this land are uploaded here, see these)

 

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Best Hotels

Inn on Biltmore Estate – Asheville:

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Pinehurst Resort:

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The Dunhill Hotel – Charlotte

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2024/+

Nicest Neighborhoods:

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Vegan Restaurants and Shops:

Apex:

  • The Dirty V Plant-Based Noshery
  • Vegan Community Kitchen

Asheville:

  • Laughing Seed Cafe
  • plant (lowercase on purpose)

Chapel Hill:

  • Vegan Flava Cafe

Charlotte:

  • Bean Vegan Cuisine
  • Oh My Soul
  • Sanctuary Bistro

Durham:

  • Banu Vegan
  • Pure Soul
  • Pure Vegan Cafe

Fayetteville:

  • Vibe Gastropub

Greensboro:

  • Mike’s Vegan Grill

Hickory:

  • Plant Based Boss

Raleigh:

  • Element Gastro Pub
  • Irregardless (hopefully the name is a joke)
  • Pure Vegan Cafe
  • The Fiction Kitchen

Waxhaw:

  • VegGeez Plant Based Eatery

Wilmington:

  • Sealevel City Vegan Diner

 

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Ancient Ruins:

hopeful the ones buried by construction… now getting exposed/revealed/unearthed

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Other Sites:

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Avoid:

basically all of the western part of this state

 

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See:
(and avoid; Helene destruction)

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