A Week in Wilmington | Wrightsville Beach | Carolina Beach State Park | Abbey Nature Preserve | January 2024 This might be my favorite week that we’ve spent in Wilmington so far. After the last couple trips being in the heat of the summer and early fall, it was so nice to come back in…
Visiting Fort Macon State Park | Camping at Oyster Point | New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park | North Carolina | July 2023 The plan for our drive from Wilmington, NC back to the Midwest was to hug the coast and drive up the Outer Banks of North Carolina and up to Norfolk, VA before…
On July 9, we arrived in Wilmington, NC. For those keeping track, that means that in the span of 2 months, we drove from Philadelphia, PA, to Hyder, AK, to Wilmington, NC — almost 10,000 miles. We’re so thankful our van handled all that so well, and as a “reward” we gave it a few…
First Week in Wilmington | Wrightsville Beach | November 2022 Over 6 years ago, we lived in Charleston, South Carolina, and for our third wedding anniversary we decided to take a trip to Wilmington, NC. Since it was a special occasion, and in the middle of a hot and humid summer when camping would just…
Our last week in Connecticut seems so long ago and we’ve done so much that has overshadowed it since then that it hardly seems worth mentioning at all. However, for the sake of completeness and closing out that chapter of our life, we’ll write about it anyway. For our last weekend, like so many weekends before, we…
Our Day on Block Island • August 14, 2017 We’ve spent our summer in Connecticut trying to experience life in New England to its fullest, whether that be hiking in the woods, strolling town and city streets, and walking along rocky coastlines. We’ve eaten fresh seafood and overpriced ice cream from local road side shops. We’ve admired…