Category: North Carolina

  • Our favorite beaches – Final 2nd Anniversary Post

    Our favorite beaches – Final 2nd Anniversary Post

    This last installment of our 2nd year anniversary celebration week postings is a new category that will appear only once.  We jammed along the coastlines of both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean last year (Mar 1, 2013 to Feb 28, 2014).  I thought it would be fun (and possibly helpful to others)…

  • Our Top Ten Favorite Hikes – 2nd Anniversary

    Our Top Ten Favorite Hikes – 2nd Anniversary

    We have crossed another milestone.  Two years ago today, on March 1, 2012, we embarked on our new lifestyle of living on the road.  One of our many goals was to continue to exercise and be active.  Building on what I began last year, and to commemorate our 2nd year of full timing, I have compiled…

  • Betsy’s “ferryfull” adventures – Outer Banks, NC

    Betsy’s “ferryfull” adventures – Outer Banks, NC

    Leaving Virginia behind, we were looking forward to our next destination – the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Our friends Joe and Judy (who are North Carolinians) gave us heaps of information about the Outer Banks.  But what and where exactly are the Outer Banks?  Referred to as OBX by locals – it’s a long string of…

  • Back on the road – Blue Ridge Parkway

    Back on the road – Blue Ridge Parkway

    After surviving my jet lag and cooling down from the sweltering heat of the Philippines, we’re rolling down the road again.  My first order of the day is burning off the poundage I gained from guzzling those delicious, greasy Filipino foods.  Fortunately, the Lake Norman Motorcoach Resort is only a few minutes away from Lake Norman…