I blasted Take Me Home Country Roads as I drove through the capital of West Virginia. It’s true, the houses are made of old rusty sheets of metal, the roads are overgrown with weeds and people paste the confederate battle flag on every flat surface they can find. Mountain mamas Read more
Only a half-hour south of Charlotte in North Carolina, Fort Mill was the last place the Confederacy had its last cabinet meeting in 1865. The town has a Confederate Park at one end of he historic area established in 1891 to remember those who died in the Civil War. The Read more
All car museums are laid out the same way, I’ve been to enough of them to know. There’s always a big entranceway with a two-tiered display of a couple of dozen cars angled toward the visitor. The whole thing started when the depression-era bootleggers needed to run from the law. Read more
Charlotte is the headquarters of NASCAR, so its racetrack is naturally the American home of speed. The Charlotte Speedway doesn’t just host races, it also has a star-studded history of being on the silver screen. Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, Burt Reynolds in Stroker Ace, and Elvis Presley in Read more
Route: New York to AtlantaPlane: B737-900Date: 29 Aug, 2025Price: $209.78 including a previous flight from Ottawa Comfort: The large armchairs had plenty of storage space, including a cubby for a laptop, empty cups and a granite surface for drinks. The seat had adequate recline for a nap, but there was Read more
Route: Ottawa to New YorkPlane: E175Date: 29 Aug, 2025Price: $209.78 including an onward flight to Atlanta Comfort: The economy class seats on Ember aircraft are usually slightly wider than on the B737 and A320 as it’s only 2-2 instead of 3-3, so the 1-2 first class seat width isn’t a Read more
This free-admission museum in uptown Charlotte only features temporary exhibitions. It focuses on post-Civil War racial justice issues to the modern day. The exhibition I saw was on climates of inequality about how climate change disproportionately affects poorer people and racial minorities. The government forced racial segregation by redlining zones Read more