{"id":1389,"date":"2015-08-25T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:51:38","slug":"days-47-60-a-break-in-the-woods-of-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Days 47-60: A Break in the Woods of North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed with Chris&#8217;s uni friend and his family in a large house in the middle of a forest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834346787.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1437834346787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834346787.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We mainly caught up on video editing and watched Netflix :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834393738-e1437841848142.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834393738-e1437922319527-242x300.jpeg\" alt=\"wpid-wp-1437834393738.jpeg\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834393738-e1437922319527-242x300.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834393738-e1437922319527-300x372.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834393738-e1437922319527.jpeg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We only briefly went\u00a0into the surrounding towns, mainly to pick up food or do a bit of shopping. For instance, this is a place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearrington.com\/eateries\/roost-beer-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roost<\/a> that does posh pizzas and has a lovely outdoor area that does music on the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834526655.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1437834526655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-wp-1437834526655.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/carolinabrewery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Brewery<\/a> for dinner. They do a great mac and cheese and also have a really lovely outdoor space:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-25-18.56.44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-25-18.56.44-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-07-25 18.56.44\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-25-18.56.44-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-25-18.56.44-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than that, we caught up on blogging, shopping and sleep. We nearly forgot we had a car for about a week. Chris really enjoyed the break from driving. It took us a full six days to be motivated enough to leave the grounds on our own, and even then, we just went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes and Noble<\/a> to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peter-capaldi-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/9D_03_Cover_A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor Who comic<\/a>\u00a0(granted the B&amp;N was 20 miles a way, so I suppose it did involve a small amount of real motivation).<\/p>\n<p>We went to their lovely local fresh water beach, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncparks.gov\/Visit\/parks\/jord\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Lake<\/a>, a few times (for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1616\">the time the iPhone went in<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.16.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.16.58-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-01 13.16.58\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.16.58-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.16.58-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.23.48-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.23.48-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-01 13.23.48-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.23.48-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-08-01-13.23.48-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No video to this post, simply because it was a break, so blog worthy things didn&#8217;t happen on a daily basis, and those that were truly interesting have been made into specials, some of which have been released and others will be along later.<\/p>\n<p>For the next post we will be back to exploring cities and looking for somewhere to live \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed with Chris&#8217;s uni friend and his family in a large house in the middle of a forest: We mainly caught up on video editing and watched Netflix : We only briefly went\u00a0into the surrounding towns, mainly to pick&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,142,137,135,138,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-chapel-hill","category-durham","category-north-carolina","category-pittsboro","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}