Report from Charlotte NC

Whooooooo me?  NASCAR??

I'm surprised these two owls from the Charlotte NC Raptor center do not have numbers and racing stripes.  We had a very nice visit to North Carolina last week but Charlotte is certainly all NASCAR all the time.  And I don't mean maybe.  We went to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the Speedway and the Hendrick Auto shop.  It strikes me that your dad would have really enjoyed the auto shop especially.

Our tour guide specialized in NASCAR for tourists and she stated that her goal was to have non-fans hesitate one or two seconds longer before flipping the channel next time NASCAR appeared on TV.  She succeeded.  It was actually very interesting.  

We drove to Charlotte and stopped in Winchester VA to spend the night.  We went to the "Old Town" to have dinner at an old inn that was supposed to have an interesting history.  As we walked the streets of Winchester, James kept saying "this looks so familiar".  He asked the waitress, and yes, indeed Winchester is the site of the Apple Blossom parade (which he remembered very clearly).  

 

I found it interesting that he remembered Apple Blossom but not Winchester.  I recently learned that Civil War battles were named differently by the north and the south:  one named battles by the name of the city or area (Winchester) and the other would name the battle by some feature of the area (Apple Blossom). Hmmm........

See you all very soon!  On Long Island (name).  For the wedding (feature).  Which of us do you think has the weekend named how?