July 22, 2012
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Cary On My Wayward Son
Seems like it has been forever since I posted. Wow, I can't remember the last time I went this long without posting. But, I'm sure some of you might be wondering where I have been. Oh, who am I kidding, I'm sure nobody even noticed! Fuckers!
Anywho, I had to go to Cary, North Carolina for work from Sunday to Friday. For those of you not familiar with Cary, and honestly, why would you be, it is located right next to Raleigh. It is a quiet town of about 132,000 people with lots of trees. Lots of trees. In fact, it seems like North Carolina is filled with trees. When we were flying it I swear from my middle seat there were trees for as far as the eye could see. I expected to get eaten alive by mosquitoes while I was there but actually, I don't think I got a single mosquito bite.
Honestly, as much as I would love to post all about the trip, for the most part it was a lot of really boring work. I went with two other guys from work, one of them was in his 40s and cool and the other was 53 and well..............let's just leave it at that. One of the things that drove me nuts about him was that he chose to stay at another hotel which was about a mile away. This might not seem like a big deal but our hotel was walking distance from work and we only had one car. So each morning instead of walking to work, I had to go and pick his ass up. My commute went from a two minute walk to a 10 minute drive to and from picking him up. I can get into more details about him, but would rather not.
After work it was pretty cool. I had never been to North Carolina so this was kind of exciting for me, even though people might think "it's only North Carolina". For me though it is a chance to see a place I've never been before which is always cool. I love to travel and want to see as much of the world as possible. Whenever I travel, I never eat at chain restaurants. Come to think of it, when I'm home I usually don't eat at chain restaurants either. The food out there was fantastic; every place we ate at was good and in most cases, great.
While there, we went to Chapel Hill, home to the University of North Carolina. After eating at a place called Timeout, we went to a roof top bar on a three story building that overlooked Franklin street. On Thursday night we went to a dueling piano bar which is something I love to do. When we first walked in, the only customers in the place was three younger girls and a guy. We started to sit down a couple of tables away from them when one of them said "what, you are going to be anti social? Come over here and sit by us." So we proceeded to party with them for much of the night.
Oh, I should also mention a couple of things about the hotel. We stood at a LaQuinta which I've never stood at before. It was not a bad hotel, but I did have some issues. For example, the toilet seat constantly had condensation on it which I believe might have been from the humidity. Also, at first the t.v. didn't work. And the air conditioning did not seem to work all that well but it did manage to keep it reasonable in there. LaQuinta is a pet friendly hotel which sucked because there was a family reunion going on at the hotel and several families brought dogs, one of which was a yapper. One of the nights as we pulled back into the parking lot I saw an older lady with the dog and asked my co worker if I should run them over. He didn't think that was a very good idea.
So that is a brief summary of my trip. Or at least what I remember of the trip.
Comments (2)
If you went for work, I don't understand why your company or whatever didn't do the arrangements for you, and thus you would've all been in the same hotel... because him choosing another hotel is just stupid.
When Monkey was still having to visit Little Rock for his followups after the stroke, we always stayed at the LaQuinta there, because it was reasonably close to the hospital (his followups were about 4 hours from our home so we always stayed the night as his appointments were generally at 8 or 9 am... bastards)... We were once stuck in a room next to a yipper... other than that though, it was ok. It did have a funky smell in the hallways.. ya know, like it was an old building or something.
I don't think you are weird at all for being excited to go somewhere you haven't been. I'm like that too. And like you, I love eating at the "real" places in new places. We usually ask around, like the people who work at the hotels and such, to see where the good places are.
@BubblysLife - The other guy was actually a hired contractor hired through another company and they make him pay for his travel up front and them reimburse him. Believe me, I was more than just mildly annoyed at having to pick his ass up every damn day.
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