Paul and I spent a week in North Carolina on Oak Island recently. We had never been there before but had heard positive things about both Oak Island and the community of Southport so we decided to take a little trip and check it out. You see, we’re still wondering where we might want to call home one day.
We rented a small apartment that was built over the garage of the owners, Sandy and Scott. They fondly refer to it as Pelican’s Perch. It was small, but cute and had everything we needed. We found the apartment on Airbnb and you can find it here.
If we walked to the end of their short driveway we could see the beautiful Atlantic Ocean. Read more….
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My husband and I made a trip stretching from Pawleys Island, SC and up through the Outer Banks of North Carolina earlier this summer. The third and final portion of that trip… the Northern Beaches of the Outer Banks is here!
Our last day on Hatteras Island dawned with cloudy skies and a light rain. Today we’re leaving this island to make the short trip to the Northern Beaches of the Outer Banks which consists of the communities of Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Southern Shores, Duck and Corolla. Read more…
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I am tickled pink to be participating in the Sentence a Day Writing Challenge for July. This is my first experience with trying to fit an entire day into one sentence and it’s certain to be a challenge!
This is the first day of July, so here we go…
July 1st – In Ventura, CA visiting with family for my Mom’s 85th birthday celebration!
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If you read my recent post about planning for retirement, you know that we had a trip to the coast of northern South Carolina and the outer Banks of North Carolina planned. That trip officially began!
Our first day was spent on the road traveling through the beautiful state of Virginia and down through North Carolina to the South Carolina coast. Read more….
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I’m still a little shocked by this, but I recently won a one week stay in a beach house in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! When I say beach house, I mean approximately 25 yards from the beach. So, of course we invited family, meaning adult children and their families. Our daughter and her family living in California couldn’t make the trip, but our two sons and their families that live close by were very excited to go along. Which meant all staying together in one beach house would be 6 adults and 4 children, ages 9 months, 2, 4 and 6 years. Read more….
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For many of us the holiday season means traveling to visit loved ones. We all know what that means when babies or young children are involved… packing lots of stuff to take along!!
When family travel is involved, our grandchildren love to get to ride along with Paul and I. So a few years ago when a trip was planned and our granddaughter would be riding with us, I created a checklist in the hopes of not forgetting anything. I’m so much better at packing if I have a list!
I recently turned the list into a printable infographic for you in the hopes that it will help you out in some small way too! Read more…
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Andy, Barney, Goober, Aunt Bee, Opie – all names easily recognizable to any of us that are a “certain age”. All are names that spark memories of a TV show depicting a simpler time in everybody’s favorite small town, Mayberry. Shown on black and white TV screens that required your getting up from your comfy place on the couch to turn the knob and change the channel or turn the sound up or down. That job was often delegated to the kids!
Last year Paul and I were visiting a friend in the hospital when one of his other visitors mentioned going to Mayberry Days. My ears perked up and I started asking questions about this thing called Mayberry Days. What is it exactly, where is it and so on. It was then that I decided I wanted to make a visit to Mayberry Days too.
So, one year later another thing was crossed off my bucket list. We went to Mt. Airy, North Carolina and joined in the Mayberry Days Celebration that’s held each year in September! Read more…
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Cambria is a sleepy little village on the central coast of California nestled among Monterey Pines. As you travel along Highway 1 to reach Cambria you will see beautiful rolling hills on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. This lovely location has been a favorite vacation spot of my sisters and their families for years. Read more….
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I am so excited to be a part of the special “Between the Lines” blog series organized by Katherine over at KatherinesCorner.com highlighting bloggers age 50 and over! Katie asked that we share a little about what our blog is about, ourselves and challenges of blogging at our age.
My bloggy beginning….
I was completely unfamiliar with blogging until my daughter-in-law started one. Her beginning was very humble; she was hoping to be able to acquire free diapers for her and my sons new baby. Her blog has grown tremendously and she inspired Read more….
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Until I read “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson, a wonderful book by the way, I had never heard of Centralia, PA and the fact that a coal mine has been burning underground there since 1962. I mentioned this to my husband, Paul and he said “it’s been burning there since the early 60s and it could burn for another 250 years.” So he has been living with this knowledge for many years and just never shared it with me. He is however, a walking encyclopedia of bits of knowledge.
This event really got my attention; I had no idea a coal mine could burn endlessly on and on underground or that it had ever happened in the real world. So today when the weather forecast stated is was to be a warm balmy 60 degrees we were thinking about where to take a day trip and Centralia popped into my mind. I wanted to see this place with my own eyes! So we gathered up our collie, Gunnar and off we went. Read more….
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Paul and I spent a week in North Carolina on Oak Island recently. We had never been there before but had heard positive things about both Oak Island and the community of Southport so we decided to take a little trip and check it out. You see, we’re still wondering where we might want to call home one day.
