The Walk for Peace, Buddhist monks walking 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C., were making their way to Charlotte on Wednesday as crowds swelled to about 250 people at an intersection near the Carolinas border. Around 3 p.m., people of different ages and races stood at the corner of Pineville-Rock Hill Road and Flint Hill Road, awaiting the monks’ arrival. Bundled up in winter coats and braving the winter breeze, some held cameras to capture what some described as a once-in-a-lifetime ex