Why Can't Every Day Be Like a Christmas Market?

Magic in downtown Cary, North Carolina

The other week in North Carolina, we drove down to Cary for dinner, from the UNC campus (and originally from our hotel in suburban Durham.) It’s about a half-hour drive, and kind of strange. There’s a lot of rural land and country roads in between the Triangle’s different population centers, and the area’s downtowns are rather small compared to the newe…