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THE CAROLINAS - (NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA)

Lee and Karen Duquette attended their 8th Monster Jam event. This time in Greenville, South Carolina on January 4, 2025 - NOTE: All Monster Jam Events are listed under TOC-M because there will be many more events in the future.

Snow in South Carolina, January 10, 2025 - a rare event in this part of South Carolina.

Lee and Karen Duquette attended their 9th Monster Jam event. This time in Greensboro, North Carolina. - several pages - January 12, 2025

Karen Duquette's birthday

WOW - A a second snow storm happened in South Carolina on January 21, 2025. And even more unbelievable is that Storm Enzo also hit USA states further south, where snow is really unusual including parts of Pensacola Florida, Atlanta Georgia, Texas, Mobile Alabama, and Mississippi. Here a a few South Carolina snow pictures, that Karen Duquette took while sitting in a hot tub outside at night in very cold weather in South Carolina.

February 18, 2025 - Karen Duquette had surgery on her right shoulder (which was also from the fall she took in Rhode Island on July 13, 2024. The doctors in Rhode Island did NOT diagnose her shoulder injury in 2024, and the shoulder got much worse as time passed before Karen realized how serious the injury was. Those photos have been added to the bottom of the 2024 page.

February 19, 2025 - A 3rd Snowstorm in South Carolina

March 23, 2025 - Tulip Festival at Five Blossoms Farm in Clover, South Carolina with family.

March 23, 2025 - Lunch out with family at The Groovy Beast Restaurant

April 5, 2025 - Lee and Karen Duquette enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt with their granddaughter and great-grandchildren at Fairview Park in Monroe, North Carolina

April 20, 2025 - Easter with Family

May 11, 2025 - Mother's Day with family

May 15, 2025 - A dinner at Drift Restaurant in Belmont, North Carolina

August 8, 2025 - The Balloon Glow and Laser Show in Rowan County, 1560 Julian Road, Salisbury, North Carolina 28146 on August 8, 2025 at 5 p.m. (which they had already paid for before Lee Duquette's injury), so they went to the event even though Lee Duquette was still recuperating from his major surgery. - 2 PAGES

September 6, 2025 - Lee and Karen Duquette attended another Monster Jam event in Raleigh, NC and it was not that far from their "home base". So of course they also did other things in the area. You may view these in any order of your choice. There will be links at the bottom of each page to take you to the next thing, so you do not have to keep returning here.
"It's a Southern Thing Restaurant and Homewood Suites Hotel by Hilton in Raleigh, North Carolina
Shangri-La Stone Village in Prospect Hill - very unique and amazing
NC State Fairgrounds MUSEUM in North Carolina with some interesting art. Lee Duquette was not up to walking the outside area which they had done previously.
JC Raulston Arboretum
Raleigh Monster Jam and the Bike Wars - 3 pages

Lee Duquette's birthday celebration with family in September 2025

October 6, 2025 - Halloween Scarecrows in Fort Mill, South Carolina - 3 pages

October 18, 2025 - The Hot Air Balloon Festival in Statesville, North Carolina - several pages

October 31, 2025 - Halloween Trick-or-Treating with Family in Locust, North Carolina

November 1, 2025 - Lee and Karen Duquette went to their 15th Monster Jam Event, this time in Lancaster, South Carolina - 2 pages (All other Monster Jams can be seen using the TOC-M button below and scrolling down)

November 27, 2025 - Thanksgiving 2025 - in Fort Mill, South Carolina with family

The Amazing displays at the Koka-Booth Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary, NC in 2025 (three pages)
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AFTER you have seen all of the adventures in The Carolinas in 2025, back up to March 12 - 19, 2025 to explore the road trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and then into Indiana for Lee and Karen Duquette's 10th Monster Jam Event (but it was NOT their last one - others can be reached through TOC-M for Monster Trucks). They also visited their maid-of-honor who lives in Indiana. Of course, they made several stops on their way there and back to their home base in South Carolina.

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