{"id":2845,"date":"2009-06-14T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T01:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2009-06-14T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T01:06:37","slug":"36-hours-in-carrboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/36-hours-in-carrboro\/","title":{"rendered":"36 Hours in Carrboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times just did their <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/14\/travel\/14hours.html?ref=travel\">36 Hours on the &#8220;Research Triangle.&#8221;<\/a> Like most locals, I had plenty of beefs with their selections, which I have to admit are all pretty good. They did end up at the Cat&#8217;s Cradle. They did drive through the Sunshine Biscuit drive-thru. They did like my favorite parts of the NC Art Museum. They did discover Fathers and Sons &#8212; and the Scrap Exchange. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2009\/06\/14\/travel\/0614-raleigh_index.html\">They also took some very nice photos<\/a>. They did miss the best BBQ, the best taco trucks and a lot more by staying in Raleigh too long. They missed out on a lot in Durham and in Cary. But for a sort of 30-something kinda visit to the area, it wasn&#8217;t all that bad.<\/p>\n<p>First, it occurred to me that my own past 35 hours in Carrboro was a more walkable and more fun time than they found spending too much time in the car. In fact, the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/itscarrboro.com\">&#8220;It&#8217;s Carrboro&#8221;<\/a> song gives great shoutouts to many of the treats of Carrboro. Just visiting those would make for a nice 36 hours of visit. You&#8217;d want to add the biscuits from Neal&#8217;s, a coffee stop at the Open Eye, beer stop at Milltown, another stop at the Station, and a great dinner at Acme, Glass Half Full, Provence, Aki Hana, ice cream at Maple View, and a trip to Johnny&#8217;s for crepes, tacos, coffee, wine and atmosphere. And you could walk all of it &#8212; if you were timing things right during the 2nd Friday Art Walk so you could party at Wootini and hear klezmer music at Carrboro Creative Coworking.<\/p>\n<p>How would you lay out your unique visit to Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, HIllsborough, Pittsboro and\/or Raleigh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times just did their 36 Hours on the &#8220;Research Triangle.&#8221; Like most locals, I had plenty of beefs with their selections, which I have to admit are all pretty good. They did end up at the Cat&#8217;s Cradle. They did drive through the Sunshine Biscuit drive-thru. They did like my favorite parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}