by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is my third trip to the North Carolina DMV since Karen and I moved to Charlotte. It took two attempts at two-hours each to title and tag my truck with a Missouri plate and Karen’s CRV from Florida. A separate excursion to the Wildlife Department to get a...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 19, 2017 | Travel
The historic village of Chimney rock is nestled between the Broad River and Lake Lure below the granite monolith that shares its name with the quaint hamlet. The drive from Charlotte was a little less than three hours and we were welcomed with an early check-in at the...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 18, 2017 | Travel
Karen and I got up at 4:00am on Easter Sunday (4-16-2017) to attend the Sunrise service held below the Chimney Rock lookout in North Carolina. The entry gate to the park opened at 5:00am and closed at 6:00am to allow attendees to make their way to nature’s...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve been tying to buy Karen a new car for some time now, but her 19-year-old Honda CRV still looks and runs great, so she has been reluctant to part with it. Saturday (9-17-16) we went to the 46th Annual Miami Auto Show to check out some possible new...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
A dense mist hung in the air when we left the Four-Mile Beach Inn Thursday morning (9-1-16) and headed south down the Cabot Trail along the northeast coast of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. At breakfast a couple from Halifax told us about a great hike...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sunrise (8-31-16) at Pictou Lodge was everything we could have hoped for and then some. Getting up to admire the fiery ball also gave us an early start.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tuesday (8-30-16) would be our longest driving day of many lengthy legs during this trip. From Cape St. Mary’s to Pictou Harbour we’d cover 268 miles. Of course we had lots of cool stops to make along the way.
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was overcast and chilly when we left Halifax and headed west down the South Shore region of Nova Scotia. Karen loves sunsets and I’d reserved a perfect perch atop ferocious cliffs on the Acadian Shores. We had many miles to travel and I held hope for clearing...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Sep 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
About an hour northwest of Halifax is Nova Scotia’s wine country. The Acadians used dykes and a drainage network to reclaim this coastal area with the highest tides in the world and create extremely rich farmland. The Grand Pre′ landscape and culture is a Unesco...
