Places in other states
Photos from 6/14 – Revisited 5/15 We have long been vacationing in the Ocean Isle Beach/Sunset Beach area of North Carolina, and I’m hoping to live in the area in the near future. Sunset Beach is our favorite beach; it’s quiet, it’s peaceful, and parking is free. This...
Photos from June 2013 Old Brunswick Town predates the American Revolution and was once an important port along the Cape Fear River. The growing size and importance of nearby Wilmington chipped away at Brunswick’s significance and population. In 1776, the British attacked the town and scattered its few...
Photos Taken October 2011 From my experience, few people are aware that The Thousand Islands refers to an actual place and not just salad dressing. The area in question is between Ontario and New York, along the St. Lawrence River and the uppermost section of Lake Ontario. The...
Photos taken October 2011 Waaaaaaay back in high school, some of us took a 4-day trip to Quebec, with sightseeing in both Montreal and Quebec City, and I always wanted to go back. So for our 2011 fall trip, we decided to combine two of our proposed vacation...
Photos taken October 2011 Fort Ticonderoga, if even mentioned in any of your US History textbooks, was probably briefly brought up for a sentence or two in a chapter about the American Revolution. The fort was actually built by the French during the French & Indian War (or...
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...
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...
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...
