Charlotte!

Carborro, NC was short, but excellent. It is a pleasant town near Chapel Hill where my first out-of-dorm roommate (Stephanie Murr) now lives with her son and husband. I hadn't seen her since 1999 - so it was a long awaited reunion. It was super nice to catch up with her, watch her son run around, and then dinner in a diner she has seen John Edwards eat at. We, unfortunately didn't run into him. I was going to tell him he was better looking than Hilary and Obama. And what's up with that. How come we most commonly call her by her first name, and him by his last?

After dinner, we drove to Charlotte, where we spent 2 days on the wrong side of town, with my friend Jon, who lived directly beneath me in our Israeli dorm. He has since downgraded, living in a sketchy furnished motel-looking apartment in the Charlotte ghetto. However, he is cool as hell and we had a blast with him.

Gregg and I took the opportunity as soon as possible to hit up a Home Depot and get a piece of plywood to lay across the back of our car, on top of the wheel wells, and atop the front and back seats. It is a hip urban car loft of sorts.

Apres car renovating, we lollygagged around until evening, when we hit up an artwalk in one of Charlotte’s hipper regions. There were about 5 galleries, 2.5 of them really interesting us. After about 10, the gallery seen dulled, and we headed for some bowling – which was potentially my worst score in my adult life. Such a downer after hitting my lifetime high the last time I bowled. I think my two game average might have been about 48.

While leaving Charlotte, we stopped in the first ever Latino-owned coffee shop I have ever frequented. While there we purchased a Korean made bottle Aloe juice. The verdict? Definitely decent, far too sweet for heavy consumption. Fruity.