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Just get on a plane and go! I've grown up in the US and have lived all over the country. A Southerner all the way, we reside in Charlotte, NC and love it.
As empty nesters, we enjoy short trips to see the kids at college or friends for long weekends.
We also have always enjoyed the longer trips in the summers with the kids, or the Asian business trips I take regularly.
There's no better place than the US - our cities, our vast West, and the beaches of the Carolinas.
As North Carolinians, we are basketball fans - ACC conference is awesome and you will note a reference to UNC-Chapel Hill as the mecca for college hoops (see pages below).
While we love to travel, we love being home in Charlotte where we are active in our church (Myers Park Presbyterian Church, PCUSA), and have lots of friends and family to hang out with. Weekends are always fun filled times with golf, dinner dates with friends, sitting by the outdoor fireplace, and relaxing. |
| family in Greece at Posidon's Temple at sunset |
|  | Europe We go to Europe most summers, and have enjoyed renting houses in Greece, Italy and France. Lots of culture and we find the people to usually be so accomodating and welcoming - its the tourists you have to be carefully with.
We tend to rent a house in one place for a week and work from there with day trips. There are plenty of nice places for rent, at about the same cost as 2 hotel rooms, and we like having the living spaces to relax and the kitchen to cook and nibble.
We went to France earlier this summer, mostly in Normandy and the Cote D'azur.
In Italy we like Tuscany and the Amalfi coast - we want to go to the lake district.
and in Greece we liked Santorini - need to go back and explore some more places.
It is my hope that we will live in London or Paris or Florence for a year, once I retire. |
| Gillam Bay on Green Turtle Cay |
| | The Islands Its so easy to go to the Bahamas or Turks or BVIs from Charlotte. We have 23 nonstops flights to island destinations, so we make this trip as often as possible. The quieter the better. Bonefishing is far more fun than the deepsea variety.
consider the Turks for family relaxing
and the Abacos, Bahamas for fishing and boating |
| Tim taking a morning hike in Hong Kong |
| | Asia if 1900s is the century for the USA, then the 2000s is the time for China - just go and see it- it is large and wonderful - the food and people are awesome, and the history and scenery are terrific. And the business is strong - these folks now how to make money. The is just no place like Hong Kong
I love the food and the people - and these folks are really great capitalists |
| Bo, Stuart, Kim and Tim at Stu's graduation |
| | Travel with the Kids we think its fun to travel with the kids and keep the family together as long as possible - while they are now about grown, a nice trip to Europe can serve as a nice bribe to hang out with the parents
Stuart is 21 and a 3rd year student at UVA
Bo is 19 and a freshman at UNC
2 great college towns - we'll travel anytime to Charlottesville or Chapel Hill |
| | US Travel we love going all over the US - the great National Park system, the Rocky Mountains, Hawaii, the California coast, the Carolina beaches, the great cities - just so many fun things to do - and its right here!
In North Carolina, we have:
Pinehurst
The Outer Banks
Blue Ridge Parkway
Asheville's Biltmore House
Grandfather Mountain
Blowing Rock
Lexington BBQ
come on down and see us! |
| | Recent Trips - Upcoming Trips - Hopeful Trips Recent 2009 Trips
April - High Point, NC / Los Angeles
May - Nassau, Bahamas / Las Vegas / Chattanooga / Charleston / Charlottesville
June - France with the family
: Normandy, So. France (Eze) and Paris
Chicago / Chapel Hill
weekends to Atlanta (wedding) and Myrtle Beach (relaxation)
August - Chapel Hill and Charlottesville for back to school
Indianapolis and Boston on business
Chapel Hill for golf
September - LA, San Diego, Miami, Vegas, High Point
North Carolina Mountains for golf
Lake James for some relaxation
Chattanooga
lots of Carolina Panthers and UNC Tarheel football games for the Fall
New York in October - Marathon Weekend is the best
Bahamas AGAIN!!!!!
Where we want to go in the next year or so!
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Barcelona, Spain
St Barths (again)
Brazil/Argentina
Vancouver/Whistler (again)
Sea Island, Georgia (the new Cloister) |
| my kids - nothing could be finer |
| | Tim's Top 10 and Bucket List Likes & Dislikes: My Top 10
Likes:
1. my family hanging out with me in some fun place
2. great food and wine
3. Water - give me a view of water and I am happy
4. Friends to hang out with, play golf with, and talk about life with
5. home - Dorothy was right - there is No place like home
6. Tarheel Hoops - the UNC basketball program is awesome
7. Doing a Deal - nothing like the pursuit of a deal
8. Music - all kinds of music - its good for the soul
9. walking - I really like a morning walk to get you going
10. Coffee and Paper - give me my black coffee, the paper and a crossword puzzle in the morning and my day is just fine
Dislikes:
1. bad drivers - cell phones have made this even worse
2. people who talk with food in their mouth - rude!
3. liars and cheats - just do the right thing - please!
4. bad food - I can't stand expensive places pretending to serve good food
5. a bad bed - what a waste of a night when you can't sleep
6. pompous people - I think all people are valuable - so quit bragging and enjoy the good things that others can bring - no one is THAT important
7. riding in the back seat - just can't do it
8. wasteful spending - either at home or in government, it is hard to make a buck, so I hate the waste of money
9. Slobs - please pick up around yourself
10. crowds - I just avoid them
My Bucket List:
Golf:
shoot my age
shoot par
hole in one (not so far)
play Augusta National
play in Scotland
Attend:
World Series - done
Super Bowl - shoulda gone to the Panthers loss in 2007
NCAA Final FOUR - a hey baby - Go Heels
(our win in 2009 - and loss in 1977)
Other things to do:
write a book
go to 100 countries
go to all 50 states - done (Hawaii was #50 for me)
teach somewhere for a while
take a summer off and be a missionary/contributor to something
have grandkids
finish strong |
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Stepwalk Mon Nov 9, 2009 01:28 UTC
Thanks for your comment Tim, let me know when you'll be down here! Steve | zanzooni Fri Nov 6, 2009 01:16 UTC
LOL! That poor page is so sadly lacking! I probably won't retire there, it's too far from the ocean. Hey!! We are having a big VT meet next Oct. in Fredericksburg, VA. You must come!!! It's posted under the meetings section. ~ | pedmar Thu Nov 5, 2009 14:35 UTC
well so much to do around here already reading the ratings i got lately in VT .....planning trip to Madrid once home in Versailles next month. Happy travels. Pedmar | ForestqueenNYC Wed Nov 4, 2009 19:37 UTC
Tim, Would love to have some of that Southern cooking now, especially since my son and I have been doing the South Beach diet for the last 10 days. A Krispy Kreme donut sounds really marvelous. |
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