Thread: North Carolina, United States

Originally Posted by rockzmom

... the speed limit for a good portion of the way is 70 miles per hour.
Most everything closed up by 10 pm, which is early compared to where I live.

Gosh, I guess that the civilization in US grows up North! In north California everything was closed up by 7 pm. You are a pretty darn lucky stranger if you found a coffee shop open till 8 pm. BTW, in Novosibirsk I've never had even a glimpse of thought that after a hard working day I could be cut off from a cup of coffee.

There was a 65 mph limit in California though while driving 75 I identified myself with a snail seeing all those cars overcoming me with the speed of Pacific storm. Nobody cared if there were cameras or not.

Coffee Cup, I thought about you a lot on our trip as you know my girls like their tea and hot chocolate but like to study in the coffee shops! We did find an amazing place in the Chapel Hill area, Caffe Driade. It is off a main road and we actually passed it the first time and had to circle back to it. It is behind an art gallery in a wooded area. It is a small little building nestled in the woods and they have tables outside so you can be one with nature while you drink your brew.
Their hours are:
M-Th 7a-11p
Fri-Sat 7a-12a
Sun 7:30a-11p

And every time we drove passed, their parking lot was PACKED!!

Here is a photo that is from their website from winter time:


and here is one of the entrance at night time:


here is a side view of the outside seating area. When we were their people had their laptops out!!



and here is the inside:



On another note... sadly our local coffee house closed their doors after 10 years!! So we are on the hunt for a new place.