N.C. arrival
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There's always the Inside Improv show in Chapel Hill on Friday and Saturday nights. I recommend Friday night this week. I hear the Code is awesome and Ben Moser is super-hot.
www.dirtysouthimprov.com
www.dirtysouthimprov.com
I don't want to sound like I'm plugging but at least three of the groups playing this weekend are fantastic and the fourth (Night Attack) is debuting. If you can't make it this week, next weekend has some great stuff too, including part two of The Code's Friday Night run at Inside Improv. Introduce yerself and get the star treatment.
Sandbag, speaking as someone who isn't one of the show's house managers but happens to know all of them very well, if you do decide to take the short drive to Chapel Hill along scenic I-40, I can assure you that you and your guests will be seated in the finest seats in the ice cream parlor, and the Ice Cream Throne will certainly be available to you. Or, if you would prefer, we could seat your party in the booth adjacent to stage right, which would afford you an excellent view of the hilarity.
Please don't forget to indulge in one of the Inside Scoop's many signature flavors of locally-produced ice cream. Heavenly!
Please don't forget to indulge in one of the Inside Scoop's many signature flavors of locally-produced ice cream. Heavenly!
I haven't really been off-post much, but it's pretty standard for a town that is mostly just a service provider for the military (lots of dry cleaners, boot repair, that sort of thing). The downtown area looks like it's under renovation. The drive up I-95 was kind of scenic, in a "lots and lots of trees" sort of way. But then again, I like trees.
It looks like we don't have to look for a house, as there is a house here on Fort Bragg available for us on the first week of June. Yay! So, it's this awesome hotel room for another three weeks.
It looks like we don't have to look for a house, as there is a house here on Fort Bragg available for us on the first week of June. Yay! So, it's this awesome hotel room for another three weeks.
Dude, to get housing that quickly is wonderful.
I'm with Ben-- Fayetteville is just about the worst that North Carolina has to offer, insofar as it is really, really, really ugly, and there's just not a single area of that city (that I know of) that is working towards some kind of renewal.
But there is some improv down there, you're not too far from the Chapel Hill improv scene, you're darn close to beach, and the rest of the state is quite beautiful. Strip clubs are generally easier to come by in Fayetteville, though, so if boobies is your number one priority, you're in the right place.
I'm with Ben-- Fayetteville is just about the worst that North Carolina has to offer, insofar as it is really, really, really ugly, and there's just not a single area of that city (that I know of) that is working towards some kind of renewal.
But there is some improv down there, you're not too far from the Chapel Hill improv scene, you're darn close to beach, and the rest of the state is quite beautiful. Strip clubs are generally easier to come by in Fayetteville, though, so if boobies is your number one priority, you're in the right place.
We just kind of lucked out on the housing; 82d just came home, and everyone's getting reassigned elsewhere, but the bulk of the inbound replacements aren't showing up until the end of the month, so I went from 97 to 17 on the housing wait list in about a month.
I'd have to agree that the humidity is pretty bad, especially coming from Germany to here. Combat equipment jump days are going to be ugly, but most of our jumps waive combat equipment (I love you, USASOC!). It'll be hard for me for another week or two until I get used to it.
The surrounding community and places like it are one of the things I don't like about what I do. Fayetteville's pretty standard as off-post towns go, and it always makes you feel sort of disconnected from the rest of the world because every off-post town looks and feels exactly the same (in that trailer park, "this-place-would-die-if-the-post-went-away" kind of strip-mall vibe). There are some exceptions (San Antonio has Fort Sam Houston, Colorado Springs has Fort Carson, etc), but getting to places like that is a hard thing to do.
Ben, I can't get a definitive answer as to how to pronounce "Skibo".
I'm going to wait until we move into the house before I come to Chapel Hill. I don't have much in the way of street clothes anyway (everything's in a big wooden crate somewhere on post). So, I'll be up there on the weekend of the 3d.
I'd have to agree that the humidity is pretty bad, especially coming from Germany to here. Combat equipment jump days are going to be ugly, but most of our jumps waive combat equipment (I love you, USASOC!). It'll be hard for me for another week or two until I get used to it.
The surrounding community and places like it are one of the things I don't like about what I do. Fayetteville's pretty standard as off-post towns go, and it always makes you feel sort of disconnected from the rest of the world because every off-post town looks and feels exactly the same (in that trailer park, "this-place-would-die-if-the-post-went-away" kind of strip-mall vibe). There are some exceptions (San Antonio has Fort Sam Houston, Colorado Springs has Fort Carson, etc), but getting to places like that is a hard thing to do.
Ben, I can't get a definitive answer as to how to pronounce "Skibo".
I'm going to wait until we move into the house before I come to Chapel Hill. I don't have much in the way of street clothes anyway (everything's in a big wooden crate somewhere on post). So, I'll be up there on the weekend of the 3d.