A couple of years after we moved to Georgia, Barney and I were driving north along the coast in North Carolina (where Barney lived with his family in the mid-1970s)...

As mentioned in the previous post, Tryon Palace in New Bern is a place I’ve wanted to come to for almost 20 years. Now we’re here. So what’s the big...

Whenever I’ve thought of the city of Wilmington, I’ve thought of the battleship moored there that we could visit. Today’s the day. As we got onboard, we realized that we...

While my main reason to visit Wilmington was to see the battleship, we decided to spend more time here to relax some, to get caught up on our posts, and...

What’s amazing about Wilmington is that the destruction from the Civil War didn’t touch this town at all, so the buildings and homes we’ll be seeing are all original (but...