Road Trip: Charlotte

The last few weeks have been a bit nutty: two weeks ago we flew to San Francisco to look for housing, we went from SF straight to Boston for one last weekend there before we leave the East Coast, then we drove back to Philly by way of Connecticut to meet our friends' new baby (yay!), spent three days packing all our stuff before the movers came and took it all away, spent three more days sleeping on the floor and doing all the random last things we had to do before leaving Philly (while hanging out with my parents and sister, who were in town for a final visit, and trying to cram in as much time with our Littles as possible), went to a wedding, and then this Monday we took off! I also cried a lot the last few days, because I don't want to leave.

To try and ease the painfulness of leaving Philly for a place that we didn't want to live, we are making the move a vacation and spending three weeks driving to SF and stopping to visit friends in various places along the way. Here's the itinerary:

I know it seems pretty random - it was dictated by (1) places where we have friends we can stay with, and (2) trying to go to as many new places as possible. The first stop was Charlotte!

Char-what?

We went to the Harvey Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, which had some really cool art that you unfortunately couldn't take pictures of, and then we walked around downtown Charlotte (except they call it "uptown"), which also had cool art and you could take pictures:

A bear for some reason

A mosaic

We also ate a lot of great (mostly fried) food, played board games with the friend we were staying with, and generally had a great time. This morning we had breakfast at a really neat cafe before hitting the road, and now we are in Atlanta!

Ben at breakfast