Drive very carefully, especially during summer. During the summer we get a lot of tourists and most are in a rush to get somewhere. They're unfamiliar with where they're going and how to get there so they may be distracted trying to figure out directions rather than paying attention to driving.

Just jump onto Market St. and you'll find a good number of dealerships, more or less clumped up in the same location. I have never bought an automobile online but I would recommend looking there first so you can get a general idea of pricing and inventory.

I would say my favorite memory from driving in the city is driving around the beach in the evenings in the Spring. During the Spring the traffic isn't as bad as it is once Summer arrives and I like Spring because baseball season has just started. I can remember one evening listening to a Yankees game on the radio when I was about 22 years old and it was really enjoyable and laid back.

Sidberry Rd. Sidberry Road is my favorite road and I usually take it when visiting family in Scotts Hill. I'll even go out of my way to take this road. The road is never busy, I like the houses along the road, and it's more or less a straight road with not many curves.

If you can help it at all avoid College road from New Center and Oleander. It seems to turn into a parking lot at random times throughout the day. Traffic will come to a complete stand still for 5 minutes with no accident in sight. With the University right there you are also bound to come across distracted drivers (either visiting parents or sleep deprived students) and you're safety at risk.

On the rare occasions that there is any frozen precipitation be aware half the drivers will be going 25 miles per hour under the speed limit, the other half 15 over. And some drivers alternate between the two extremes. Most here do not know how to drive on snow or ice and this is why everything closes when there is even a chance of snow.

In some places in town it's still possible to get from point A to point B in almost no time at all. We live in a neighborhood about 20 miles from where I work and most morning I have less than a ten minute commute. Coming home on if traffic is bad it might take twice that. The city being sandwiched between the Cape Fear River and the beach, nothing is too far of a drive.

Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. MLK is the fastest route to get from downtown to the beach and generally part of the fastest route of anywhere in between. One end at Market and Eastwood on the east side of town and the other end at Third St in downtown. Speed limit is 55 for much of it and lights are timed well and not too close together.