{"id":1420,"date":"2015-08-28T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:10:52","slug":"day-65-chapel-hill-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Day 65: Chapel Hill, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got our oil changed on one of our last days in North Carolina. It was a fairly painless process and I was able to do another Skype ESL lesson right from the dealership. Kudos to Verizon for the good signal.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly as soon as that finished, we got the call from my mother that the green card had finally arrived (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1413\">see previous post<\/a>). Needless to say, we were somewhat distracted in anticipation and some nerves as we had exactly one day before we needed to leave due to the arrival of our friend&#8217;s mum from the UK that week. Knowing it was being overnighted from Wisconsin to North Carolina, we finally had a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chapel_Hill,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">Chapel Hill<\/a> proper. We&#8217;d been in the shopping area in between Chapel Hill and Durham several times during our 3 week stay in North Carolina, but never ventured into the city itself.<\/p>\n<p>It is basically a university town, a very nice one, but none the less, that seemed to the only thing that was there.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it was a beautiful, well kept campus and not too far from places like Raleigh with tech jobs, so living somewhere in between could be considered if <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Hat\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hat<\/a> were to hire Chris and I could get a job at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill\" target=\"_blank\">uni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-14.42.52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-14.42.52-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-11 14.42.52\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-14.42.52-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-14.42.52-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.39.42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1424 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.39.42-e1439761669531-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-11 13.39.42\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.39.42-e1439761669531-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.39.42-e1439761669531-1024x714.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.49.09-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1425 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.49.09-1-e1439761695560-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-11 13.49.09-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.49.09-1-e1439761695560-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-13.49.09-1-e1439761695560-1024x748.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do check out the video for more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_49995\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTo8pIJMZAU?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After Chapel Hill, we headed back toward Pittsboro. At the local Lowes grocery store, we were given free flowers, which is always nice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-15.18.13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-15.18.13-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-11 15.18.13\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-15.18.13-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-11-15.18.13-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got our oil changed on one of our last days in North Carolina. It was a fairly painless process and I was able to do another Skype ESL lesson right from the dealership. 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