Stir Crazy

Cedar Point CG site #13
Croatan National Forest
Cedar Point, NC

Welcome to our newest follower, Karen & Al.  Karen has a couple of nice blogs and I have bumped in to her Florida-Georgia Camping Kayaking one several months ago and thought how nice it was.  There's some good info there, and it sounds like we share common interests.

Well, it's official now...I'm stir crazy (as opposed to just plain crazy).  I woke up at 4:30am and can't get back to sleep because I have caught up with my sleep.  It's Wednesday and it's been raining off-n-on since Sunday night.  We all went shopping at Walmart in Morehead City on Monday and then hit the Golden Corral buffet.  Yes, our hit did leave a pretty big dent.  :)  Other than that, we haven't left the cg.  That's ok by me, but it's been so wet that we didn't bother to get the bikes off the rack to ride around.  We've played Canasta in the evening with Gin's folks every night.  Since a storm is forecast to come in today, they are thinking about leaving this morning.  Gin and I will pack up our chairs while they are sorta dry, but we will wait it out and leave Thursday.  I don't mind driving in the rain and a little wind too much. 

Yesterday was a busy training day at the Marine base in nearby Jacksonville.  We could hear the artillery all day and into the evening.  Some of it sounded kinda close.  It sounds a lot like thunder but it's constant.  I cannot imagine living in a war zone.  I wonder if politicians would be so quick to declare war if they knew it would be fought daily on American soil?  I hope and pray that it never happens again.

What kind of things do you do on a rainy day in the RV?  Gin plays games on her IPad while I do Cryptograms.  We bought this word puzzle book from Walmart and it will last me several years.  We've caught up with our sleep by napping every rainy day and watched all the shows that we've tivoed .  I feel like I'll pop if I keep eating like I have during the past few days.

Thanks for dropping by, and enjoy each day of your life's journey by finding beauty in the ordinary.

It’s Good to be “Home”

 
Cedar Point CG site #13
Croatan National Forest
Cedar Point, NC

After coating ourselves with SPF 50, we spent a couple of hours bobbing in the waves and people watching Saturday morning.  You do see all kinds of people at the beach.  During the heat of the day, we went to the Piggly Wiggly to get some groceries.  When we came back, we noticed a fire only a few feet from the MH.  Timing is everything. 

Our neighbors had grilled sausage for breakfast and put the coals on the grass without dousing them with water.  The wind must have kindled a spark to flame up.  They were gone but had left two tackle boxes right next to the coals.  They were flaming up and the melting plastic smelled pretty bad.  As we got out of the Suki and walked up to put out the fire, a couple of other rv’ers came over from both sides to help out.  Even if we hadn’t been there to put it out, another camper would.  As one guy said, we’ve got to look out for each other.  We finished up our Saturday with a nice grilled steak and a game of Canasta with Gin’s folks then one last look at the moon shining on the rough waves.

I don’t know why it is, but the closer your cg neighbors are, the earlier they crank up to leave.  On Saturday, the neighbors on one side cranked up at 7:00am and Sunday, the neighbors on the other side cranked up at 6:00am.  Since they lost their fishing tackle in the fire, I guess they were ready to leave.  We each packed up our MH’s and Gin and her mom went to Cedar Point at 10:00am to find a couple of sites for the next few nights.  It sure did empty out on a Sunday morning.  We are in one of our favorite sites and Gin’s folks are across the street.  The first time we stayed here a couple of years ago, these are the sites we were in.

This is site #13.  Since Gin has MS, she has an Access Card to use at the National CG’s so we paid $44 for 4 nights.  We’re only 5 miles from the ocean too.  There are very few cg’s on the oceanfront in NC so that’s why the few that are there can charge so much.  As we were setting up camp, Gin looked at me and said, “It’s good to be home.”  This place definitely feels like home and moving from one cg to another instead of going back to the stix n brix made us think about the fulltime lifestyle even more.  We finished the day by going out to eat at Capt Charlie’s in Swansboro (good food) and playing a game of Phase 10.  Rain is in the forecast for the next couple of days so we will relax and sleep late.

Thanks for dropping by, and enjoy each day of your life’s journey by finding beauty in the ordinary.

Holiday Travel Park

Holiday Travel Park site #69 red
Emerald Isle, NC

I had a busy week at work so we decided to go to one of our favorite places with level paved sites since one of our jacks doesn’t go up.  Cedar Point CG in Croatan National Forest, here we come!  Gin’s parents have there MH packed and were going to join us.  We got there at 11:30am on a Friday and all the sites were taken and nobody was packing up.  What to do.  There’s an “RV Resort” just past the bridge in Emerald Isle.  Holiday Travel Park is a last resort because it’s expensive by our standards.  We got two nights for $140.  It's a nice place but not really our style.  They charge $5 a night for Smudge so I will be using their baggies for a while.  We wanted to spend the day Saturday at the shore and this is an ocean front cg so we’ll enjoy the convenience.

Here’s our site.  It’s one of those places where your morning constitutional is heard by your neighbors on one side and smelled by the neighbors on the other side.  :)

We hung out with Gin’s folks and went out for an early supper at Jordan’s Seafood in Emerald Isle.  It’s a mom-n-pop restaurant with decent seafood and reasonable prices.  After chatting some more back at camp, we walked to the shore to see the moon come up.  Here’s where the concession stand’s steps go down to the shore.

We’re planning to get in the water in a little bit.  You won’t get pictures of us in our bathing suits and you can thank me later.  ;)  Sunday we’ll leave here and hopefully get a couple of spots at Cedar Point for a few nights.

Oh, "Hiya" to heyduke, our most recent follower.  He has a nice looking blog that I'll drop in on once in awhile.

Thanks for dropping by, and enjoy each day of your life’s journey by finding beauty in the ordinary.