Carolina Beach, United States

... ;a reenactment of the battle.  We would love to stay and see this event but the lure of warmer weather further south is a stronger motivator. We had a late lunch at the Harbor Master seafood restaurant in Carolina Beach - great food.

... to tour the USS North Carolina which is permanently docked in Wilmington on the Cape Fear River.  The State of North Carolina raised enough funding in 1961 to save the North Carolina from being sold for scrap metal.  The USS North Carolina was ...

... 'southern' cities where we could catch both the Atlantic coast and Civil War sites to visit.  We targeted the State Park at Carolina Beach as our destination, left I-95 just outside Wilson NC and took 117 to I-40.   When we arrived, the ...

... that has worked for decades.  Normally we don't drink under way, but it tasted really good.   By 8pm we found a good place at Carolina Beach.  Not really very pretty, but we were down and safe.  I had two more beers.