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September 1999

North Carolina - Asheboro

David Aaronson
2005-09-23 23:16:24

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Despite the fact that we covered several areas of North Carolina in the first two days of this trip, all the pictures on this page are from the North Carolina Zoo. The one exception is the background picture of the Great Smoky Mountains at dusk. Thus the pictures and the story won't really match up as they usually do. The image titles generally give the names of the animals though (position the cursor over the image if you aren't sure).

We arrived in Raleigh late on Friday night and did nothing but adjourn to the hotel. The next morning we found out that Tropical Storm Dennis (which brushed us the week before in Florida) was turning towards the North Carolina coast. Thus we promptly visited the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh so that we could head west away from the storm. The museum itself was very nice (even though half was closed for renovations). As we left around noon it was just starting to rain.

As we headed west towards Asheboro (home of the North Carolina Zoo) we drove out of the rain again. The zoo itself is enormous. So large in fact that there are two parking lots on opposite ends (North America & Africa). We parked in Africa and walked back to North America (so to speak). It takes two to three hours to walk the length of the zoo, longer when you're enteratained by particularly active polar bears. After the obligatory purchasing of otter merchandise, we returned to Africa via tram. As we left the zoo, the skies were darkening again, as it turns out Dennis was still pacing us inland.

After the Zoo we continued driving west to Lexington, home of the Lexington BBQ (naturally). Lexington, the town, is home of North Carolina's barbeque festival every year, which was unfortunately not being held while we were in town. Carolina BBQ features smoked pork in a vinegar-based sauce usually served with slaw and hushpuppies. Generally your choices in a fine Carolina BBQ establishment ...

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