I’ll admit: like many of my generation, I’m a Potterhead. I grew up with Harry Potter and dressed up for midnight book releases and midnight movie releases. As a Potterhead I knew about the new play on London’s West End “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” - the eighth installment in the Harry Potter story. I also knew that all the shows were sold out through May 2017, including the preview shows that started in June...Even so, on Saturday afternoon when we just happened to be in the neighborhood and we just happened to walk past the Palace Theatre, its gorgeous brick facade done up in “can’t-miss-me” Harry Potter headlines, I figured it wouldn’t hurt if I went in and asked about tickets at the box office.
Kentucky and bourbon. Some things just go together. And along the Kentucky River the land flows sweet with amber liquid.
This was supposed to be a blog post about Charleston with beautiful pictures of historic homes and the fort and harbor, but Mother Nature had other plans so we headed to higher ground. Higher ground turned out to be Asheville. Asheville without our backpacking gear? What could we possibly do?? Uhm, duh. Beer and Biltmore.
If you're one of those travelers this Labor Day weekend - either to the beach, to see family, or you're off on some rugged adventure - here are some tunes to get your wanderlust riled up.
“Excuse me, I don’t mean to alarm you, but I just wanted to let you know something very big was swimming near you just over there.”
We were about thigh-high in the surf of Oak Island beach off the North Carolina coast when this woman approached my two bikini-clad friends and me. The woman’s adolescent daughter was body-surfing the small waves in the shallows. The woman was calm, pleasant and non-alarmist, which I appreciated. We thanked her and moved to the shallows where sea and sand swirled around our ankles.
