to Carrboro and back
While Sam got a ride to the airport to fly to Orlando for a conference this week, I looked at the best way to get up to Carrboro. It's a long, hilly ride to the bottom of Chapel Hill. Then there's a one mile climb 400 feet in elevation in one shot, followed by two miles through UNC-Chapel Hill neighborhood. Fun. The one mile climb went surprisingly easily considering the ten miles that preceded it. ( I just put it in "granny" speed and went slowly.)
It's a rewarding ride. Chapel Hill is filled with shops and restaurants. Some girls from Sam's lab invited me to ride with them. The hill sounded awful, but wasn't. Today we had brunch at Crook's Corner www.crookscorner.com. A restaurant with a pig on top that is gourmet Southern sounds pretty good, though I am not sure what "cheese pork" is. Their patio was surrounded by bamboo and it was very cool in the shade. Everywhere else today was hot and sunny. The daffodils and forsythia are blooming. I Just a block away is a place called Mama Dips http://www.mamadips.com. Mama Dips, while not gourmet, is definitely down-home Southern. They serve chittlins. As my friends in Tennessee would say, "the whole pig, down to the lips and buttholes." I think I'd like to try her barbecue, based on the photo of her. She looks like she could cook some good ribs. By the end of the thirty mile round trip I felt my legs getting twitchy and the rest of me overheating.
