Skyscrapers are about to shoot into the sky to almost twice the height of the current tallest building in the world, which happens to be the Taipei 101 at 508m if you include the spire. I found this out on Skyscraperpage, an incredible site showing pix and stats for the tallest buildings as of now, [...]

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For at least 10 years I have wanted to get out to Lucama, NC, a short hour-plus away from Raleigh, to visit one of NC’s true art treasures, Vollis Simpson’s Windmill Farm. Saturday, Aly and I finally made the trek out there, and it was worth the wait! Driving around the back country of Eastern [...]

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When I was a kid, Sunday afternoons were about “going for a ride” with the family. We would all pile in the car and drive around for a coupla hours, look at where “the rich people” lived, see some nature, fight a lot in the back seat, maybe stop for lunch and then head back [...]

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The last time I flew anywhere for a long distance, I chose Continental. The price and timing were both right, but, unfortunately, the “right” stopped there and the “wrong” kept on going. I’m not usually a complainer (at least not in public), but there was nothing pleasant about this flight. The pain of it [...]

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