N.E. Cape Fear River

Sunday December the 2nd we departed for a few days at our property beside the North East Cape Fear River. After setting everything up we built a campfire and set by it to read. We really enjoy this place because it is so quite and relaxing. We did a little maintenance around the property and took walks and did a lot of reading and relaxing by the campfire. I cooked a rack of ribs in my Dutch Oven for lunch Monday. Tuesday we drove to Wallace to have lunch and buy some wallpaper border to replace the border in the MH restroom. Lena does not like the border that is in there now.

Wednesday we drove to Wilmington to do some shopping and get a repair part for one of my woodworking tools. We had lunch at the Olive Garden Restaurant. After our normal walk and breakfast Thursday we packed up and headed home. I stopped and filled the MH fuel tank so it will be full for the winter season. Friday I winterized and washed the MH as this was our last trip until March 2013.

Morehead City N.C. and Cedar Point N.C.

On Thursday October the 4th we took the MH to Morehead City to take part in the North Carolina Seafood Festival as a craft vendor. We had gotten permission to park the MH on a used car lot for the weekend close enough that we could walk from there to the festival. We didn’t have any hookups but we can go for days without hookups as long as the generator works. We stayed there until 6PM Sunday when we departed Morehead City and drove to the National Park Campground at Cedar Point and setup the MH just before a storm blew through. We only got rain which was much better than what was predicted. Monday morning the 8th we left the MH and drove the truck home and stayed at home until Wednesday the 10th when we drove our “toad” back to the campground.

The CG host met us as we pulled into the campground and fussed at us about the rule of not parking the MH and then leaving it. I told her I did not know of that rule and she said it was on the bulletin board. I checked the online reservation web site and my reservation receipt and neither one had anything about this rule. Later I looked at the bulletin board near the entrance and finally found it printed in small faded out font - probably size 9. Oh well!

We like this campground because it has a really nice walking trail over and around the marsh area and the road in the campground is paved which makes it a nice place to ride our bicycles. Late Friday afternoon our son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons arrived with their travel trailer and setup on the site next to us. We had supper ready when they arrived.  I had cooked two racks of ribs in my Dutch Oven.

On Saturday Lena and I drove to Leland so I could attend my monthly woodturning club meeting. Lena went shopping while I attended the meeting. After we returned to the campground Lena, grandsons and daughter-in-law took a walk on the nature trail and then we all went to the T&W Oyster Bar for a seafood supper.

After our Sunday morning breakfast we all attended church at the Hadnot Creek Primitive Baptist Church. It is a pre Civil  War church and church services are held there twice each year. After service the church “had dinner on the grounds”. As many churches did years ago they still have fence wire stretched out where the food is spread out. It was a great meal. Our son and his family had to return home late Sunday afternoon. But Lena and I stayed until Monday morning before we packed up and headed home.