Christmas, 2023 and 2024 North Carolina trip

A week or so before Christmas we travel to High Point, North Carolina to visit mom. 

I just think tunnels, especially through mountains, are pretty cool.


We went to visit the Greensboro Science Center. It is a very cool place to visit, well worth an afternoon

Entrance to Greensboro Science Center

 
Penguins!

It was a nice warm sunny day and nearly every animal outside was snoozing in a sunbeam, from the tiger to the pigmy hippos.

 

Sand Cat ZZZZZ

When we were here the previous year, the hippo on the right had only just been born.

Pigmy hippos ZZZZZ

I did do some specific short loops during the visit to capture historical markers.

Beard's Hat Shop

 

I later found out that there are at least three markers for "Confederate Arms Factory" in High Point and the surrounding area.

Confederate Arms Factory

Confederate Arms Factory (downtown)



Home of Dr. Shubal Gardner Coffin

Jamestown Public School

Potter House

Richard Mendenhall Store

Richard Mendenhall Store

Jamestown Friends Meeting House & Cemetery

William Reece House

In downtown High Point:

John Coltrane, genuine legend


John Coltrane

John Coltrane

Woolworth Students' Sit-in

February 11 1960

Willis Howard "Willis" Slane

African Americans in World War II

World War II Memorial

Revolutionary War Patriots

High Point Veterans Memorial

World War I Memorial




Plank Road
The Plank Road Foreman

One of the plaques on the foreman

The Actual High Point

City Transfer and Storage Company, 1908

Elwood Hotel

The Ragan and Mills Building

Sewell Farlow Store

High Point Market


 

On the way back home:

Scenic turnout to observe Pilot Mountain:

Pilot Mountain

 
Pilot Mountain information


This marker is at a rest stop in Virginia on I77.

The Crooked Road

Blue Star Memorial Highway

In the same rest area

And farther north in a rest stop on I71 in Lebanon, Ohio. I actually do not think that the linked HMDB page is correct for this, the GPS coordinates are wrong.

Ohio Buckeye Tree


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