by Shannon
About once every four months or so I fly down to North Carolina for meetings with some dear friends and colleagues, and since this is the location I worked at previously I am always excited to hear about what is new.
Let me begin by saying that about three years ago, we moved our offices from the metropolis of Rocky Mount, NC (pop. 65,000) to Whitakers, NC (pop., at best 650). We would often joke that Whitakers was the bedroom community of Rocky Mount, but that was just to make the twenty-minute drive past cotton and tobacco fields seem more glamorous.
When I lived there, there was a classic dive named “Lisa D’s”. This was a converted gas station, adorned with fifteen-year-old Dale Earnhart posters and a 1997 Nascar schedule on their walls. No matter what you ordered it came on a flimsy paper plate with a stack of the one-wipe-and-done napkins.
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Arriving in Denver early for a conference can have its perks—especially when you take the time to drive through the mountainous region of Route 70 and discover a rare treat nestled into a valley of the Rockies. A quick exit toward Evergreen and a sharp left turn, to avoid a splash into a lake, finds you in the town of Evergreen, Colorado.
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