East Village Rock n’ Roll Tour
Photos from November 2011 I laugh whenever anyone says history classes are boring, because I’ve taken some really cool and unusual ones, case in point The History of Rock n’ Roll. Yes, I swear that was a real class, and an excellent one at that. For a class...
Mighty Joe
Anyone driving on Route 206 in Shamong has surely seen the gorilla in the parking lot of Mighty Joe’s, a gas station and convenience store. Formerly found along the Wildwood boardwalk and more recently serving as a decoration at a go-kart track, the gorilla, now known as Mighty...
Mars Bluff Bomb Crater
Photos from June 2011 Another find due to geocaching. I wanted to make a day trip out of our visit to South of the Border, and I happened to notice this oddity was just outside Florence. On March 11, 1958, an Air Force pilot heading to England accidentally...
Abandoned Family Inn
Photos from June 2011 While pulling into South of the Border, we noticed an abandoned motel literally up the road on the North Carolina side of the border. Next to it was a vacated fast food place; in fact, the only place nearby that wasn’t abandoned was a...
South of the Border
Photos from June 2011 For a few years during my childhood, my family would drive down to Florida every February, and my brother and I always anticipated the stop at South of the Border. If you have never heard of South of the Border, then you haven’t done...
Fort Fisher and the Hermit’s Bunker
Fort Fisher photos from May 2010 Hermit Bunker & Grave photos from May 2011 This wound up being a 2 part trip. My wife and I have been vacationing in southern North Carolina for a few years. While looking up things to do, both traditional and nontraditional (you...
