Virginia - North Carolina

We are sitting at Saxby’s coffee shop in downtown Richmond, VA. It was super hard to find a coffee shop that wasn’t Starbucks but low and behold, here we are! Richmond is a far more depressed city than I remember from driving through here several years ago. It originally seemed to be economically divided by a river running on the south side of the city. The southern part was horrendously neglected, falling apart, with mostly abandoned storefronts. The divide seems to extend far enough that we didn’t see one single white person until we crossed the bridge from the south side.

Although the north side was vastly more maintained then the south, it was still a remarkably depressed town.

Moving forward - Today we will enjoy the sunshine while driving from Richmond, VA to Chapel Hill, NC to visit an old roommate from college..and then potentially onto Charlotte, NC to meet up with another old friend from Israel.