Looking for Adventure? Try Zip-Lining
Who doesn’t love a good adrenaline rush? I was recently given the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do for a while now-go zip lining. I brought a friend with me to experience ZipQuest in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I expected a huge elaborate facility, but when we arrived I was surprised to find that [...]
Travel kids, unite!
Asheville, North Carolina is the mecca for the wandering soul in America. In my extensive travels around the United States, there is no other place that welcomes the travel kids of the world to unite and even thrive as much as this eclectic town tucked away in the Smokey mountains of Western North Carolina. This [...]
Journey vs. Destination
.. . . I’m an intrepid traveler. I’ve lived, visited, or worked in 20+ countries on four continents. I’ve stayed in four-star hotels and slept above pigpens. I’ve ignored State Department travel warnings (Don’t tell my mother.) and navigated across entire countries relying armed only with shameful foreign language skills and an underappreciated gift for [...]
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Goodbye, North Carolina
I’m resting in my bedroom at night. It’s cool out and there is a light breeze, the benefit of living on the ocean. You can see the lights lining the dock outside. Tonight there is no one there, and the water is still. I try to sleep but can’t. As I have grown older I’ve [...]
Girlfriends
On a hot summer evening, my friend Jon and I go out on the town. We hit up Level 5, a gorgeous rooftop bar that overlooks the Cape Fear River by Wilmington, North Carolina’s southern coast. It’s a clear night and warm string lights criss-cross over the bar and onto the dance floor. It’s only [...]
Day Trip: Raleigh, NC
Marvin and I seek adventure. We’re both city slickers, and living quite literally on the beach (North Topsail Beach, to be exact, population: 955) is fun in the summertime but pretty quiet otherwise. Out of the ten condos in our complex and the complex next to ours, two are currently occupied over the winter. It [...]
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Moving on Out
At 10pm I shed my bridesmaid’s dress behind the doors of the bridal party dressing room and escape the vineyards of New Hampshire’s Flag Hill Winery to the white Toyota Highlander waiting outside. Two hours later, I am in line to take the Bolt Bus from Boston to New York. I’m chatting with Marvin who [...]
Milestones- Beth
It’s noon and I’ve been working for hours at my kitchen table. It’s a bright table – I purchased the fabric from a market in São Tomé e Príncipe this past summer and when I sit there, a little bit of my beloved São Tomé is with me, too. I work from home with Waveplace [...]
