I’m leaving this week for a vacation, and this trip is going to be different from others in one way: I’m going to drive a car in a foreign country. Picture a medium-size SUV and tiny, winding little roads with questionable smartphone service. (What blows my mind is that I think this was actually my…
April 5 is Read a Road Map Day! It’s a random “holiday,” to be sure, but even with today’s GPS technology, map reading is still an important skill to have. We all should take a moment though to give thanks that we rarely need to unfold a state road map anymore. (I never could refold…
The Mailbox® is located in North Carolina, and I just recently learned an interesting fact about our state. We now have the largest zoo in the world. Yes, the world! The North Carolina Zoo is a 500 acre natural habitat zoo. So if you live in NC, or you find yourself here, you might want…