Nathan Carter has done more for Irish and North Carolinian relationships than anyone, so we expect the inaugural Aer Lingus flight will rock me mama to Wagon Wheel to Raleigh.
Raleigh becomes the 26th Aer Lingus North American route when it takes off from 13 regional British airports through Dublin next April.
We’ve yet to hear a song around that odyssey so there’s an opening there for us.
There is one though famously out of Maine in New England and on to Raleigh, North Caroline.
Which Nathan and Carolinian Darius Rucker popularised.
With stop-offs in Philly and in Roanoke, Virginia.
Up in New England
And all because the lovelorn hitchhiker wanted to run from the cold and poker losses in New England.
Though we can’t understand that because we’d run to it.
Although he is clearly missing his baby.
Now as romantic as it all sounds, a banjo-playing wannabe fiddle player going to these lengths to get to his guitar-playing baby.
A Breeze of an alternative
He could always have flown with Breeze Airways (no, us neither).
From £132 from Portland and be in her arms in just over two hours.
But then it would have been a very different song, and maybe Boeing Wheels doesn’t have the same lyrical sound to it.
Sweet Caroline
Now while our hero clearly had a warm welcome waiting for him with his baby you’ll more than likely need your own billet.
Our friends at Rome2Rio have kindly pointed us in the direction of a range of hotels and Black Friday deals.
And their three sample nights in March at the Raleigh Marriott City Center has grabbed our eye at £574 for two, down from £820.
Rock me mamma
Now you’ll want to know what you and your loved-one can do in Raleigh.
So we’ll fill in the gaps, or rather Getyourguide will.
As American history buffs we’re clearly all over the full-day Historian Guided City and Raleigh African American History tours.
While of the ghoulish, fiendish or downright criminal can choose between ghost and crime tours.
But our interest is piqued most by the four-hour Raleigh/Durham: Mystery Date Night in the Triangle Area.
Which our pals in the song would doubtless of availed of, particularly after the long hours of hitching.
