We've needed a few things from Costco, and I've been putting off going for a while now. Today, I was going to go to Charleston to get those things and to take pictures. I found out there's a Costco in Charlotte. Charlotte is closer, but the traffic is nearly worse than in Charleston. Still, Charlotte on a cloudy day is better than Charleston during thunderstorms.
By some small miracle, there's a Sam Ash right next door to Coscto in Charlotte. I was able to get out of Sam Ash without spending money, but it was a close thing. While in there, I heard about a shop called Celtic Trader which may have sold my stated reason for going to Sam Ash: bodhrán beaters. Unfortunately, it turns out Celtic Trader has closed their doors. The drummer at Sam Ash thought they might still be open, but he hadn't been that way in a while. After some searching on foot and dealing with people who don't know a music shop from a record shop, I found out that Celtic Trader had closed down. Well, it was probably for the best as far as my finances today are concerned. It's a shame, though.
Another thing around Charlotte that I've been hoping to visit is the Carolina Raptor Center. My love of dinosaurs spills over to their modern day cousins, birds. If you want to get within a couple of feet of a killer bird—close enough to smell its lunch in the noon day sun— then this is definitely the place to do it. There are some beautiful birds here, and I wish I was a better photographer.
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