Carolina Brewer

I flew that exact route back home to Charlotte in September, which is scary. You take off from LaGuardia, and we headed north to about the Bronx and then crossed over it. Then headed west just into NJ over the Hudson, but not but a few miles into NJ, and then back south past Manhattan. The flight path was probably not all that unusual for this route. My brother had a manager from his company on that flight.

I live in the Charlotte area, Fort Mill, SC, actually. Moved here three years ago with my then girlfriend, now wife, from Milwaukee. It was hard leaving friends behind, and at times it still is, but you get adjusted pretty well to it, since there are so many transplants in the South that it's hard not to run into someone from your hometown, or home state eventually. That makes things easier, at least for me. It also helps when you can do what you like outside 10 months plus out of the year, such as today when it's going to be 65 out. As to the traffic in Charlotte, I would say that having lived in Milwaukee and Chicago, it's much like commuting in Milwaukee, which is not awful. Charlotte is such a nice area that traffic is about the only thing there is to complain about, and even then it's overblown.