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Anita Desai

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A white barn and open field at Chatham Oaks Farm during the Piedmont Farm Tour in North Carolina.

North CarolinaMay 10, 2026

A Sunday on the Piedmont Farm Tour: Mushrooms, Goats, Strawberries, and a Better Look at Local Food

We finally made it to the Piedmont Farm Tour, spending a spring Sunday visiting five farms near Raleigh for mushrooms, goats, strawberries, local food, and a closer look at the work behind sustainable agriculture in North Carolina.

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Featured image from our festive December weekend in Asheville.

North CarolinaJanuary 24, 2026

A Festive December Weekend in Asheville

We went to Asheville for Christmas at Biltmore and Winter Lights. At Antler Hill Village, we shopped for gifts and tasted the Christmas Red and White.

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Featured image from our Blue Ridge wedding and wine country weekends.

North CarolinaNovember 10, 2025

Wine Country to Wedding Bells: A Blue Ridge Celebration

This Blue Ridge weekend had celebration built in. Hendersonville vineyards, Triple Falls, Asheville meals, and a mountaintop wedding all gave us reasons to linger.

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Featured image promoting our Historic Oakwood VoiceMap tour in Raleigh.

North CarolinaOctober 24, 2025

Discover Spooky Season in Historic Oakwood — Our First Audio Tour Together!

Our first VoiceMap tour made Historic Oakwood feel like the right place to start. In October, the Victorian porches and old Raleigh stories already come with a little atmosphere.

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Featured image from our summer stay in North Carolina's High Country.

North CarolinaAugust 24, 2025

A Few Weeks in North Carolina’s High Country – Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock and West Jefferson

A longer High Country stay gave us time to settle into the mountains instead of rushing through them. Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, and West Jefferson all led up to a Rough Ridge proposal we will never quite top.

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Sunrise over Carolina Beach with the shoreline and pier in view.

North CarolinaJuly 6, 2025

A Quick Summer Escape: 2 Days in Carolina Beach, NC

We hiked the Flytrap and Sugarloaf trails, picked up biscuits, and watched fireworks from our hotel balcony.

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Sunset aerial view of a vineyard and winery in North Carolina's Yadkin Valley.

North CarolinaDecember 3, 2022

Taking a Ride on the Elkin Vine Line

We took the Vine Line’s Green Line to the Swan Creek wineries, with a sandwich stop at Shiloh General Store between tastings.

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Aerial view of downtown Wake Forest and the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus.

North CarolinaNovember 8, 2022

Spending A Day In Wake Forest, NC

We spent the morning over coffee and in the shops, walked the reservoir loop, and stayed for dinner near downtown Wake Forest.

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Featured image from Nocturnal by Nature at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

North CarolinaOctober 31, 2022

Nocturnal by Nature: Halloween at NCMNS

Nocturnal by Nature turned the science museum into something stranger after dark. Costumes, cocktails, live music, and after-hours exhibits gave the Raleigh night a little Halloween mischief.

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Aerial view of fall color across the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina's High Country.

North CarolinaOctober 20, 2022

A High Country Long Weekend

We drove the Blue Ridge Parkway at peak color, hiked at Julian Price Memorial Park, and spent a day in West Jefferson.

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Colorful oversized chair sculpture in downtown Raleigh with a seated visitor.

North CarolinaOctober 11, 2022

An October Week in Raleigh, NC

October in Raleigh showed up in the small ways we like most. A normal week can feel full here when it moves from Oakwood walks and Capitol views to music downtown, museum grounds, and weekend trails close to home.

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Banjo-playing statue outside the Raleigh Convention Center during IBMA World of Bluegrass.

North CarolinaOctober 6, 2022

IBMA World of Bluegrass Festival

Hurricane Ian pushed IBMA indoors, but the festival still found its energy inside the convention center. The day moved between bluegrass sets, instrument makers, exhibit-hall wandering, and standout performances.

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Pullen Park entrance sign in Raleigh under an evening sky.

North CarolinaOctober 3, 2022

A “Short Little Walk” to Pullen Park

What started as a "short little walk" stretched into one of those unexpectedly great Raleigh evenings, with Pullen Park as the midpoint and Trophy pizza as the reward.

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