Nov 3, 2012 - Carolina, Kure, & Wrightsville Beaches

VERY enjoyable day spent visiting Carolina, Kure, & Wrightsville Beaches in NC. A stop at the Dollar Tree and Taco Bell also. Back to the nice campground and for a bike ride. Slight problems with computer coming on, so keeping my fingers crossed. Spoke with Caroline and she is in COLD Maryland. Poor Baby :-(

Jul 3, 2012 - Carolina Beach Fireworks

Again this year, we planned a beach day followed by fireworks in the Wilmington area to celebrate 4th of July. This year, we headed down a day early to squeeze in a little more beach time. I worked a half-day on Tuesday and left around lunch time for the drive down to Carolina Beach. We had some fast food for a quick dinner then headed to Carolina Beach State Park to set up camp. The group campsites here are a short, maybe 400-meter walk from the parking lot to the sites just off the Swamp Trail. Along the way, we spotted a pitcher plant,...

Dec 1, 2010 - Carolina Beach, North Carolina

12/1 – 12/7 It took us four days to travel 714 miles from Lebanon, Ohio to Carolina Beach, North Carolina (I-71, US35, I-64, US60, I-64, US220, I-40, SR132, US421). We just made it out of Ohio before the serious winter weather arrived. In fact, on our first driving day it was snowing most of the time – luckily not settling on the highway. The first night we spent in a Wal-Mart lot in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The drive through the snow was quite beautiful along US60. The next night we stopped at a Wal-Mart in Burlington, North Carolina...

Jul 5, 2009 - Carolina Beach

Sunday July 5th Carolina Beach State Park, located on the Atlantic Ocean, a peninsula. We took 17 north and then 211 east and a small free ferry from Southport to Fort Fisher, Cape Fear. Southport is a small village somewhat like Gig Harbor. There are a lot of small villages like that around here in Carolina. Carolina Beach is beautiful. The weather is cooling a bit as we head north and so is the water. The state park was nice, and empty after the 4th week end. No power, but the price was right at $10.00 for seniors. We are low on propane...

Nov 11, 2008 - Carolina Beach, NC

Carolina Beach is a touristy/busy little town near the town of Wilmington, NC. Sorry no pictures of this place. The park was pretty nice - next to a canal "the Intracoastal waterway" It's kind of like a boater's passage all the way up the East Coast without having to ever enter the Atlantic Ocean. Seems as though it's mostly recreational boaters who use this waterway. We're amazed at the numbers of recreational boating here. There's all sorts of rivers, bays, canals - all kinds of connected waterways for boating. It's neat! We found a...

May 6, 2008 - the Great Pee Dee

And crossing the state line too - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 We woke to a gray, overcast day. We said goodbye to Dave and Lucien, and since they are also headed for Canada we exchanged numbers. Very nice people. He and I both look like old California hippies. But he was president of a small private college, while I - well - never mind. We got back on Highway 17 north. It’s nice open four lane road with little traffic, and for the first forty miles we didn’t pass many towns. Then we came to Georgetown on Winyah Bay. Winyah Bay is the outlet of the...

Nov 22, 2007 - Happy Thanksgiving We're in Carolina Beach NC!

Happy Thanksgiving! We left Mile Hammock Bay, Camp LeJeune, NC today and are headed for Carolina Beach, NC to see our friends Keith and Kathy which is one of the highlights of our trip. They have a home directly off the ICW and we can dock our boat at their back door! Luckily this time we are docking at their home which has deep water and not the other dock where we ran aground last year! Carolina Beach is a lovely area. There is so much to do and it's a huge boating community. An update: We traveled from Norfolk VA to Coinjock NC to Dowry...

Jul 14, 2007 - Jacksonville to Carolina Beach, NC (HOME)

7/6/07 Lambs Marina, Jacksonville After couple of days of troubleshooting why the new engine wont run right, the mechanic, Curtis, finds the gremlins. Fortunately, they were not related to the engine failure. We take Miss L for a test run, & she does not go very fast. We conclude that is because she has been setting for quite a while, thus her bottom is dirty. Lambs hauls Miss L and cleans the bottom, oysters from the props, & replaces some zincs. They did not even charge us for this work which usually would be $200 or more. We quickly get...

Nov 9, 2006 - Carolina Beach, North Carolina

11/9 - 11/23 It took us four days to travel the 658 miles to Carolina Beach, North Carolina. Along the way we spent the nights at two Wal-Mart parking lots and a COE boat launch. In Carolina Beach we stayed in the driveway of our friends' Andy and Dorothy Walker (where they provided full hook-ups - what a deal). While we were visiting the Walkers: >Andy took us for rides along the beach in his dune buggy. Check out our web site for a picture of Joan drinking while driving. >We went to the North Carolina Aquarium. Considering the "out of the...

Nov 20, 2005 - North Carolina

"Did nothing in particular, and did it very well." W.S. Gilbert We've entered another phase of this journey: working our way slowly down the south east coast, stopping where we like with no particular agenda. That's quite a shift from trying to take so much in along the north east coast! And we know this phase will be temporary, as all have been, so we are settled into doing it well. Mornings are spent with schooling. Evelyn is reading great books, writing with delightful voice about the history she has seen, about half way through her...