Heading Home from NC... But First, Birds!
Oct. 17th, 2023 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerNorth Carolina Travelog #31
Brevard, NC - Sun, 24 Sep 2023. 9am
Today's the day we head home from our trip. The past several days have been absolutely packed with hiking and seeing waterfalls. In the just past 4 days here in North Carolina I count visiting 24 waterfalls on 18 separate hikes / times we jumped out of the car. Alas it is now time to go. Our flights home leave from Charlotte this afternoon.
Fortunately we have one treat left this trip. Because we have a few hours of slack time in our schedule before getting to the airport we'll visit the Carolina Raptor Center. It's not far off our route... and how could we not visit a raptor center that's practically right along the way? Of course, we didn't know about it when we planned this trip. It's something we spotted on our drive up to West Virginia 9 days ago. "Wait, there's a raptor center close to the airport?" we asked each other when we saw the road signs. "Let's see if we can visit that next Sunday before we leave!" we agreed. Now here we are, at next Sunday.
It's an easy drive of a little over 2 hours to the bird center. We'll check out of the the hotel in Brevard soon, stop for a quick lunch along the way, then have about 2 hours to visit the birds before we need to head to the airport.
Brevard, NC - Sun, 24 Sep 2023. 9am
Today's the day we head home from our trip. The past several days have been absolutely packed with hiking and seeing waterfalls. In the just past 4 days here in North Carolina I count visiting 24 waterfalls on 18 separate hikes / times we jumped out of the car. Alas it is now time to go. Our flights home leave from Charlotte this afternoon.
Fortunately we have one treat left this trip. Because we have a few hours of slack time in our schedule before getting to the airport we'll visit the Carolina Raptor Center. It's not far off our route... and how could we not visit a raptor center that's practically right along the way? Of course, we didn't know about it when we planned this trip. It's something we spotted on our drive up to West Virginia 9 days ago. "Wait, there's a raptor center close to the airport?" we asked each other when we saw the road signs. "Let's see if we can visit that next Sunday before we leave!" we agreed. Now here we are, at next Sunday.
It's an easy drive of a little over 2 hours to the bird center. We'll check out of the the hotel in Brevard soon, stop for a quick lunch along the way, then have about 2 hours to visit the birds before we need to head to the airport.
