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Charlotte, North Carolina
Yesterday you learned about a train…. …that would take us to the center of the city. The wish to see downtown Charlotte was still a wish as I sat at the kitchen table with Nina our first morning in South Carolina…until she mentioned the train to the city. I knew the wish could become a reality, so we made a plan. We would travel to the city on Sunday to explore…and to photograph. We knew there was a possibility places could be closed, but there would fewer people and cars on Sunday. While their highways are still crowded with cars during peak times, Charlotte is also building a brilliant transit system using a combination of light rail and bus service. We were able to park…
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Friday Flashback
I saw on television recently they have created a new “Dallas” series which will be premiering this fall I believe. In case you are not familiar with it, the show was about a wealthy Texas oil family….kind of like an evening soap opera. I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series, but I knew a lot of people who were. The original series ran from 1978 until 1991. I was living in Dallas from 1985 to 1990. In March of 1985, I moved to the Dallas metro area from Denver…at the time, a little area called Lewisville. The above photograph is the Dallas skyline from inside the restaurant at the top of Reunion Tower. …