Well, I am back from my extended weekend in North Carolina with Charlie and it was a great trip! I had some feelings of trepidation about driving instead of flying, but Charlie convinced me a road trip would be fun and he was right. (He is usually right...) We learned some new roads, how to navigate around the NJ Turnpike (which I am sure will come in handy again) and that Satellite Radio (with nationwide traffic updates) is indispensable when you are driving ten hours with only two 20 minute stops. And I learned that if you can spend that many hours in the car together and turn around and drive back three days later and not get tired of someone, it tells you something very promising about your compatibility! Oh sure, we got annoyed, but usually together at the bozo in front of us holding up traffic!
I got to meet Charlie's brother, B, who moved to NC recently and bought a beautiful new home. B did a wonderful job furnishing his home and it will be a great place for him to start a family some day. I hope he'll be very happy there, and I know he'll have fun gardening once the sod goes down and the trees get planted! I'll admit it was a little depressing that he paid A LOT less for his 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home than I did for my one bedroom apartment, but as Charlie and I observed this weekend, we get SCREWED in NY with housing, even more than we thought.
We all had lots of laughs together and I even got to watch some old VHS tapes that B had of when he and Charlie were kids and all the crazy things they used to do. My favorite was the one where B taped Charlie cooking dinner for some neighbors and kept rolling even when a small fire started on the stove and their friend fell onto the floor laughing!
While we were there we wanted to see everything there was to see, so we even drove out to the Outer Banks of NC. Now when the hurricane season comes and those dumb newscasters are standing on the beach in the storms, I can say "I've been there!". It was beautiful - not unlike the North Fork of Long Island but a lot more public/tourist friendly. If they have private beaches there, we didn't see any. All in all NC was a lot nicer than I had anticipated so I was pleasantly surprised, and I think being in such wonderful company really made the trip so much fun! Next up driving to Miami...just kidding! haha
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Oh baby! You were soooo close to me on your little vacation! I'm a so cal native. Two houses ago we owned in Carlsbad, Ca. Ok. You do get screwed in the housing dept. You sooo do. Cali is expensive and the homes are small, but it's so cal. ..YOu know?
Believe it or not...I fell in love with Nashville. I cried the whole way there after leaving my house in Carlsbad, but after about 6 months I was in love. My house was amazing! The people were fabulous. There was just so much there.
Now to southern Va. My house and view...priceless. Literally. I'm on the water...I have a historic house...but the people...well that's another story. LOL. All of that about nothing. LOL.
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C
You guys look like you had a wonderful trip... and I agree, a road trip is an excellent test of compatibility!
Here... enjoy this link (I sent it to CB after our first road trip last summer):
http://www.someecards.com/upload/thinking_of_you/i_m_so_glad_the_vacation_didn_t_demolish_our_relationship.html
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