Tuesday, Oct 9 – Sun Oct 14,
Moose Lodge1501 Carolina Beach Road
Wilmington, NC
After about a 110 mile travel day, we arrived at the Moose Lodge. They have 20 amp power, which will keep the
oxygen machine running, and our computers.
Unfortunately their wifi will not reach to the motorhome, so we will
have to cart the computers into the club to use the internet – not a problem,
it is only about 100 feet away J
We did take off after naps and drove to Carolina Beach where we walked to
the beach and watched people in the water – I hope there is a beach closer to
us, since that one is about 20 miles away!
I did stick my feet in it – and it was cool but by no means cold. There were a lot of folks in swimming in the
waves.
We came back home, set up and had soup and sandwiches for supper – Cinder
got the opportunity to be OFF LEASH for quite a while and got to chase the
tennis ball – when we are at most campgrounds there is no place for her to run
and it is hard on her – she loves to run after the ball and tires herself out!
Oct 10th – we went to visit the Battleship North Carolina – this is an exceptionally well done restoration of a World War II Battleship – from the beginning movie through the gift shop, if you are in this area you should plan at a minimum of 3 hours to see the ship. We came back home about 2, got naps then went over to the Moose club for a great dinner – I had a great chicken salad and David had a burger and fries J
Oct 11th – my birthday! I got text messages from dear daughter, Dawn
and SIL Daryl…we went to downtown Wilmington where we took a river tour – and
were disappointed. It was up the river
maybe a mile – less than 3, and back with little to no information about the
history of the area. Recommendation –
take a trolley or horse drawn carriage tour to hear/see about the history of
downtown. I shopped at the Wharf and
Riverwalk bought nothing – I must really be off my game!
We then went to Front Street Brewery – WOW…this is a must do! Great little brewery tour followed by amazing
food – I had a dish recommended by our waiter, Chicken Nachos which was
fantastic, bbq's shredded pork over tortilla chips, with cheese, onions, tomatoes, fresh salsa and a chipolte cream sauce– here is a picture J
That evening I skyped with Dawn and kids, Branden and Ariel who sang
happy birthday to me – that was very special to me! Later on I got a call from grandson Devon,
and that really topped off my birthday right!
Oct 12th – we traveled about 20 miles to Fort Fisher, which
was a blockade fort during the Civil War – Wilmington was the last southern
port to be shut during the war, because of the blockade runners at Fort
Fisher. You can read all about it
at: http://www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher/fisher.htm
After wandering around for a while we drove up to Kure Beach where we
watched the ocean for a while, then up to Carolina Beach where we had some
great hot dogs at Island Hots. The sea air made them extra tasty!
After naps we went to the Moose club for dinner, where I had a reasonably
healthy crisp chicken salad – it was delicious!
At 7 pm the Moose Club had BINGO open to the public, and if you are a
Moose Member you get a free packet…so I played 18 cards – didn’t win a thing :)
but I had a great time chatting with a lady who is from Pittsburgh area. We talked about all that terrific food,
haluski, halupki, apple butter, pierogies…the good stuff!
Oct 13th – was get ready to go day – do a little email, watch
a little tv, go for a drive to get Krispy Kremes – wait what??? Yep, we indulged in a couple fresh donuts –
they were so good! We put up all the
awnings, hooked up the car, and hit the hay early.
S & W RV Park
532 Holden Beach Rd, S.W.Shallotte NC 28459
910-754-8576
Nice little park, we are in site 20 – we needed to dump our tanks, clean
our sinks, etc., before we head to the Moose Club in Myrtle Beach South! After 5 days at the Moose club we definitely
needed to dump and clean up! So we came
all the way 40 miles south – and tomorrow we’ll go another 44 miles and be
there!
We’re heading out to Golden Corral to get FOOD – starving it is after
noon and we haven’t eaten (David had a stick of cheese and some crackers
:) We could not find the Golden Corral,
but came upon Jerome’s Seafood & Steak house and had an absolutely
fantastic buffet, at $8.95 each it had everything you could want. Besides wonderful fried chicken and bbq pork,
they had melt in your mouth shrimp and handmade stuffed cabbage rolls. I haven’t had any that good in years!!! To top it all off was homemade apple cobbler
with vanilla ice cream – wow, we waddled out!
Then we drove down to Holden Beach and looked at the ocean a bit…now we’re
back home, inside the AC because it is HOT outside – 88 degrees! Tomorrow we will head down the road and be in
another state. Man, I love this life.
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