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Carolina outdoors. It is
or or taping this segment of the Carolina
outdoors. It is the third of July, and
we've bringing on the Facebook Live audience from
Jesse Brown's.
It's the day before
independence day. But what does that mean for
us in the Charlotte area in the Carolina
Outdoor
area.
It means that Charlotte Douglas
International airport has hundreds of thousands
traveling for the holiday.
The
transportation
security
administration, Tsa
are warning of this being the busiest
summer on record.
In fact, we've had many people at Jesse
Brown's and here on the Carolina outdoors are
reporting the long line stretching the length of
the terminal terminals
with weights through the Tsa lines, the security
lines.
Taking an hour
or more in some cases, wait times of
30 minutes or less in standard screening lines,
and those with pre check
are supposedly being able to get in with
less than 10 minutes. But
that not is not necessarily been happening.
Airport officials
expect nearly 1200000.0
passengers
this week,
front end of July,
holiday week,
alone.
That's 12 percent more than the same
last week.
So it brings the question
for those that are here in the Carolina,
and it's 1 more reason for us to
be here in the Carolina
is to enjoy
either the beach
to the east
or the mountains to the west,
and it's the age old question.
Which would you choose
during the summer?
I've got a list of answers that several
have given me and invite our Facebook
live friends to chime in, beach or mountains,
but also listeners to the Carolina outdoors, whether
it be early on a Saturday morning via
the air of W radio,
5AM to 6,
or those that are joining in via podcast,
which would you choose
and why?
And I looked at my friend Tj dj,
the Dj Bog to see
what answer he may put forward,
beach or mountains.
I gotta tell you, bill if I have
the option,
I'm gonna do both.
I'm gonna go to the beach, and I'm
gonna enjoy the sand, and I'm gonna get
hot and sunburn and
sweaty.
Then I'm gonna head right to the mountains
and just go sit in a stream
until August, maybe.
And just
nice cool Mountain.
Oh. 0, man.
I like the way you play both sides
of this coin.
My answer probably depend on the, period of
life that I am in. Yes. And right
now, I am going to say
Mountain. Okay. Alright. But in a previous
part of my life, I would have said
beach. So I'm not trying to be political,
but right now, I'll go ahead and take
a stand.
I'm a mountains.
In in the middle of the summer, I
just wanna put my feet in the sand
for a minute
But I also want some of that, you
know, Nana hale,
freezing cold
water, You know, whatever it is, 57
degrees year round or, you know, I can't
remember exactly what it is, but chili,
which is it's just so refreshing when you're
leaving a 90 degree day in Charlotte
to head up to the mountains and just
be able to
drop that body temperature a little bit. That...
So I'm gonna go with you on that,
that mountains thing. We recognize
the beach, Susan Lake via Facebook live is
jumping in, and she says mountains.
And I know Susan it it probably has
a trout stream in mind in many aspects,
and all that the mountains has the cooler
weather.
So thank you for jumping in, Susan,
with the answer, her answer mountains.
Let me give you a few others and
we invite others to jump in via Facebook
live to chime in and those who are
listening other ways to the Carolina outdoors,
think to yourself or later on, get on
the Facebook page and chime in as well.
Charlie from Charlotte.
Jumps in. He says Mountains
the reason
golf,
cooler weather,
and there's more to do
according to Charlie. Okay. Well, we'll go with
that, Martha from South park area.
She says beach. I like the sand.
The ocean
and the breeze,
Martha concludes this about saying plus more shopping.
Oh, okay. Now that that would be the
game changer I would think. You're gonna have
more more shopping opportunities at the beach.
I think so. Definitely. I will also say,
you know, the reason I'm going with a
non answer, which is both.
There's disc golf courses at the beach and
in the mountains. So I'm gonna be happy
either way. Yeah. So... But you know what?
I'm sure that those mountain courses we can
bring this up on another segment, but the
Mountain Courses are they more tough? They're a
little more
but I like it like that. You know?
Well, Yeah. That you're in elevator
Don't have to get up at,
you know, the crack dawn
to not sweat to death in the mountains
versus if you go to Myrtle Beach, and
you try to play some of the great
courses down there.
Man, it's gonna be a hot day. It's
hot. Yeah. We we just look this up
as we're taping, and there is a the
highest point in
North in, you know, east of the Mississippi,
Mount Mitchell,
that high point, there's a 23
degree
temperature
different, at least,
during
lunchtime on a, on a July day,
it can be
in Myrtle Beach, Columbia,
without the breeze, you know, at noon. It
can be, you know, 88 degrees.
Versus
or even Charlotte really, you know, mid eighties
upper eighties at midday we're talking about, not
the heat of 04:00 day. But Mount Mitchell,
you can subtract 20 to 25
degrees. That sounds pretty good to me. Yes.
So if it's 88 in 1 place, it
is 65 in the other place. Okay. And
that that keeps it in mind
as well. Another mountain vote,
jumping in there with Susan Jim from Charlotte.
Says mountains.
I like the trap streams
and hiking.
In the mountains,
so that is understandable.
Let's think of some of the things that
you can do in the mountains. Besides just
trout fishing, or hiking,
there's the scenery.
Yeah. Just find a rock and sit down
and just watch a world go by. No.
Gorgeous. Yeah. So there's something like that. Here's
what Sarah,
I don't know where Sarah is located, but
Sarah says, I'm older now. So I like
relaxing with cooler weather and scenery.
Okay.
20 years ago, it would have been the
beach.
But now Sarah says. Okay. It's the mount.
She's similar to you right where it's the
time of your life. And now that that
may change too.
Where, you know, you go back and forth
to... Well, I hadn't been to the beach
in a while. It's time to go,
put them toes in the sand for. Very
true. Which to your point of voting for
both,
it could just depend. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. It
could depend. Of course, with road improvements,
you can access both easily
within 3 hours. You can be to the
South Carolina Coast, and really, the North Carolina
Coast. Okay. 3 and a half hours that
we'll keep it being real, as well as
you can be in the high country well
into the high country and cooler weather of
the mountains of Western North Carolina,
in 2 and a half or 3 hours,
really,
pretty easy.
This person didn't leave their name but they
said, they dread
the beach
during fourth. Oh, okay. Crowded. Yeah. Traffic,
tau to tau. Oh, yeah. So that just
means,
the beach is covered with people. Right. Yeah.
Towel to tau.
People
can't say that word. People people walking on
your beep.
My beach time is October. Is what this
first sees. That's not that's not a terrible
idea because
especially here in the Carolina.
September, October,
that can still be beach weather. That's right.
You know, you you may need a hoodie
at night. But you can still be wearing
your board shorts and flip flops, walking to
beach in October. It's not out of the
question by any means. The voice you hear
they are Tj dj the Dj Bog. I'm
Bill Bart. Your host of the Caroline outdoor
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It's fourth of July
week.
So we're asking the question, if you're not
traveling somewhere,
where would you pick in the Carolina
beach
or mountains. T j answered first off. He
answered both. I answered with a nun.
Just to be clear. Which I like, I
went with mountains just because
of this stage of my life,
I like the things that there are to
do there. It doesn't mean I don't like
going to the beach. Yeah. Of course. But
it does seem a little bit hotter,
a little bit more humid, A little bit
more.
That that is a brutal part of the...
That's right. You know... Of the beach experience,
but know, you get outside of a holiday,
weekend can...
It's not quite as bad. And the mountains
can still have that as well. You you
know, you go up during leaf peep and
season.
Yeah. Good luck. October on the Blue Ridge
Parkway. Right.
Mountains.
That can be
a tough tough time Ga. Yeah. I know
that's Tennessee, but, hey, that's a whole another,
ball of wax as far as traffic. And...
But they do... You know, they... Ga is
is a little bit more peaceful even in
the summertime. Yeah. Then arguably,
Myrtle Beach. Oh, definitely. Definitely. Hey, Scott.
Jumped in. He says,
I have 3 kids and I'm going to
the beach. It's a family
tradition.
And the beach is the perfect playground.
We've gone there since I was a kid,
and now I lead the charge for my
family that way.
That's a great point, Scott brings it up.
It is a tradition. So going to the
beach.
And, of course, much of the Carolina is
built on,
back in the twentieth century, a lot of
it built on textiles.
And during this week was famed for the
textile industry, to close for 1 or 2
weeks and, this time of year
of the mills and and those sorts of
those sorts of business that would close
and people would go to the beach. Okay.
So I didn't realize. I don't know if
Scott is,
from a textile family, but
he has 3 kids, and the beach is
like a playground. I don't know the age
of his children, but I could totally see
that.
Now we wanna be safe too, but it...
You imagine you have this gigantic
sandbox for kids to play in. Right. Yeah.
The safe part is because of North Carolina
Beach is recently. We've had a lot of
rip currents coming through that reportedly. So we
want to...
Be mindful and be respectful, but be safe
when we're at the beach.
Sam
picks the beach,
because I haven't been there in a long
time. Great call.
I had... See, that goes to why you
pick a place. I haven't been there in
a long time. Sam says, he wants some
seafood, ice cream pup putt,
and hanging
with the ladies. Yes.
Sound.
I'm mad. You gotta sam.
How me. Back to you what you're saying
about tradition and stuff.
Most... I I don't know. Most may be
wrong, but it seems to me most families
find,
you know, as the kids are growing up,
they get away to the beach. Right. During
the summer when everybody's out of school,
So it does become that.
Oh, you have all the nostalgia of going
as a kid with your family, and
you know, go into certain restaurants and doing
certain traditions
while you're at the beach,
So I can see as you grow older,
hey, it's time to go to the mountains.
Or the variety. Yeah. Right. Or
Man, I need to get back to that
tradition and feel a little more at home.
I like it. So what did your family
do? You... Started in Georgia a major way
to the Charlotte area grew up in this
area. Right. Did your family have a a
pick. We all went... When we're in Georgia,
we always went to Florida,
Panama City. Yeah. It was a yearly, you
know, Pc baby. Oh, yeah. And, I mean,
that was just
that... That's what you did. It wasn't...
We're not going anywhere else. We're going to
the beach. Okay. So that's a situation. Now
we did go occasionally you know, in the
fall or something like that to the mountains
maybe,
or, you know, hey, it's been a few
years since we've seen snow,
maybe they'd take us up to to somewhere
in actions and... Yeah.
But
the beach. That was the traditional summer.
I think... I mean, it's
so excessive
and school is out Right. In that tradition.
It does become generational
as well, but, of course, the mountains have
I mean, the mountains have always been the
mountains, but they have the amenities in the
mountains now.
It's not quite...
Is as rustic maybe, for those people who
are looking for more, there are, you know,
nice hotels, Nice resorts, nice lodge.
B,
Airbnb,
all of that have made
go into the mountains,
a little bit,
more plush if you wanna do it that
way. Don't make fun of me here on
the Carolina outdoors because we're all about being
in a sleeping bag and a tent If
you're interested in going to the mountains and
and having a proper campsite site, remember to
get your reservations into the different state parks.
Listen. As well. We're not gonna shame you
for gl either. So now if you wanna
live the high while you're in the mountains,
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However, if you're heading to the coast, and
that is your choice of these 2 choices,
the mountains or the beach.
You're going to the coast, we have sun
protective clothing, which is amazing because you don't
have to sla all of that sun block
all over you, you can just put on
a shirt that covers you. It still keeps
you cool,
I mean,
against the expectation of a long sleeve shirt
in the summertime,
No. These days, the fabric, the material, the
technology
involved in it keeps you cool, but also
blocks the Uv, the Uv b,
rays, so you are protected. We have nomadic,
towels.
These are sun proof or or sand proof.
Towels. You know what that means? It means
that sand does not stick. That's fantastic. I
know it. Who invent us? Why did it
take so long? I know and the
aforementioned in previous segments, Mike's Spike. We just
had Mike Han given us a beach report
from Ocean Drive, a neighborhood in North Myrtle
Beach. He jumped on his shared. So Jesse
Brown has all of those things.
Where do you pick the coast?
Or the mountains, the beach or the mountains,
which is it gonna be Tim.
I ain't going nowhere.
I ain't going nowhere. No traffic,
too expensive, and I don't travel on holidays.
Good for you, Tim, Annie.
She loves the mountains because she likes watching
the fireworks,
here you go Tj dj from way above.
She looks forward to that every
year.
Allan says sliding rock in b var area
is something that we've done for years. A
sore butt and a wet beach towel is
something that I look forward to going there.
So I guess a sword butt because you
jumped down on the rock and slide into
the pool. That is a great time too.
There's that pool there? As sliding rock. Right?
That is cold. Cold water. That will take
your breath away.
All the more reason for going there if
you're going up into the B var area,
check that out. Tj dj. We've run our
course of time. Well, I guess we should
take a break.
That's the voice of Tj dj, the Dj
box. I'm Bill Bart host of the Carolina
outdoors will take that break he mentioned, but
be back on the other side seeing in
a minute.