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3 January 2013 – Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms, SC

Happy New Year to everyone and we send sincere wishes for a safe and healthy 2013.

Blogging will probably become more and more infrequent until we begin heading south and that may not be until March or April.  There isn’t much to report that…

19 December 2012 – Isle of Palms, SC

Since we’re going to be here for a while, we’ve immersed ourselves into our community as if we were land dwellers here. We’re enjoying being “greeters” at our church (Seacoast), are meeting such wonderful people and feel so at home there. www.seacoast….

26 November 2012-Enjoying Coastal SC in the Fall

My brother, Bob, visiting from Atlanta over Thanksgiving holidays

A wonderful Thanksgiving and my birthday were shared with my brother, Bob, who visited us from Atlanta.  Overlooking the ICW from Morgan Creek was a view we savored as we enjoy…

17 November 2012 – Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms/Mt. Pleasant/Charleston, SC

View from our slip in Wild Dunes

Although we retired from upstate Greenville, South Carolina, we kept Kindred Spirit III in Charleston from 2006, when we bought her until we retired and cast off lines in 2008, to be full-time cruisers.  We …

12 October 2012 Home Again! Southport – Myrtle Beach – Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms/Mt.Pleasant/Charleston, SC

After leaving charming Southport, we rendezvoused in Myrtle Beach with Barbara and David and Roger and Kim.  Without a doubt, you know we all “broke bread” together and had a sumptuous repast.  

Myrtle Beach

Roger and Kim are RV expe…

9 October 2012 Carolina Beach, NC – Southport, NC

Soon after leaving Morehead City, we overtook this pirate ship whose captain was decked in full pirate attire.

A serendipity was ours and to try and make a long story a little not so long–we saw a boat, also underway, whose hailing port is my Florida…

1 October 2012 Great Bridge, VA – Cedar Creek/Adams Creek – Morehead City, NC

Happy Fall on the first day of October.  It’s still shorts and tee shirt weather here but we have felt a nip in the air on a few evenings.

Departing Tidewater Yacht Basin, Portsmouth, VA

We had a carrot dangling as we left Portsmouth.  Our…

23 September 2012 Solomon’s Island – Portsmouth, VA

Our friends in Solomon’s Island, Judy and Curt, invited us to tie to their dock after we left Annapolis.  Visiting and catching up with them and hearing about their 50th wedding anniversary trip to Alaska, made us want to pack our parkas and follo…

14 September 2012 Chesapeake City – Serverna Park – Annapolis

View from our Chesapeake City Anchorage

Our cruise from Cape May on the Delaware River was pleasing to the eye and the soul.  The night at anchor in Chesapeake City was serene and still. On Wednesday morning we awoke to pea-soup fog so…

11 September 2012 Cape May, NJ

Cape May, NJ, was a delightful place to wait out weather.  We spent one day walking and two days cycling to see all that we could see.  We’d never been there but have heard of Cape May for years.  Tucked behind a broad strip of w…