Southern Pines, North Carolina

Today, the Vegan Traveler's family went to Southern Pines, NC. In my other role as mixed media artist, I created an art book as my response to the Mixed Media Madness Mission from the Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild. The opening for the show for all the projects submitted for the challenge was today at Artist's Alley at Southern Pines.

Shopping
Historic Southern Pines is a fun town with blocks of several unique and interesting boutiques and restaurants. There is also a working train than runs through the middle of the town. We had a great time walking around looking at all the shops. My favorite was the locally created art, while my 2 year old's favorite was the toy store. (Imagine that.) Here are a few scenes from the area.










Food
The town is about an hour and a half away, so by the time we arrived we were hungry. Happily, after passing an ice cream shop, a deli and a pizza place, we happened upon a Japanese restaurant called Ten-Ya. I love Japanese restaurants because there is always vegetable sushi. The decor was beautiful, nice and stylish. I got the vegetable tempura and veggie sushi. It was delicious. (I forgot to photograph the food).






Sage was not impressed by sticky rice and fried veggies and opted for beans instead.