I am sitting at Cabo Fish Taco. The gallery crawl is not until Friday night, but Stephanie is taking an art class at the Green Gallery in NoDa, so here I sit. I have already gone into two galleries and a shop. Even though it is not crowded, there is an energy to this area. The lights, the buzz, the people in dreadlocks next to the ones in Northface. I think the DNC got it right. Charlotte has a great deal to offer the people who come. Several arts districts, great food, suburbs and glitz, museums and a very shiny uptown.
If I had to make a list of where to take visitors, I would suggest the following, in no particular order.
Go walk the Plaza/Central area, enjoy Zada Jane's for brunch.
Visit the National Whitewater Center when they have summer bands.
Go see the Pops play at South Park.
Book at table at Zebra after a day of shopping at the South Park Mall.
Go check out the growing campus of UNCC and visit the observatory.
Drive through Myers Park and go to Freedom Park.
Walk the Greenway.
Go to McCoy's Saloon and Smokehouse and then go shoot arrows and the Barefoot Archery range to work off the mac n cheese.
Take the light rail and see the Mint, Bechtler, Harvey Gantt, New South and Discovery Place. Take breaks at Mertz Heart and Soul, and then Mimosa Grill.
See the NASCAR Hall of Fame and go see a race at the speedway.
Drive down Wilkinson Blvd and go to Dairy Queen.
Take in a game of some sort, Panthers, Bobcats, Knights, Checkers.
Try your hand at one of the golf courses if you can get someone to let you in.
Go to Camden and watch the skateboarders dodge cars from Phatt Buritto or Common Market.
Enjoy a movie at Ballentyne Village Theater.
See whatever is happening at the Knight Theater, or McGlochin just because they are such cool venues.
Go find a houseboat and take a ride on Lake Norman.
and go to NoDa and eat at Cabo, enjoy the music and people at a gallery crawl. It is not the suburbs.
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