Traveling Toward Retirement

I crashed last night and woke up refreshed after a good night on a comfy bed with exquisite pillows. This Coastal Cottage Airbnb is one of my favorite that we’ve stayed at. It’s a quaint two bedroom with an ample kitchen area, a darling back patio with dining table, laundry, coffee, breakfast sandwiches in the freezer, and even a children’s playground. Seems like we wouldn’t need that last one, but later in the day it came in handy.  We made breakfast at “home” and headed to the Glenburnie  disc golf course around 10am. We were the only ones there so we had the course to ourselves. Others may have been sleeping in after partying for NYE last night because as we finished there were a few groups starting off at hole one.  We discovered this park was once a POW camp for German soldiers. We were all confused about that, like how did Germans get all the way over here during WWII…so we googled it and we learned a lot!  From ncpedia …About 10,000 German POWs were detained ...

Oh boy did I get up early today. Luckily I slept better but 5am came and my body was done resting. A hot shower in silence and some coffee brewed then allowed me to take in the slow sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. These shots were taken just thirty minutes apart and you can see how much light floods into the space. A lot can change in thirty minutes; a good lesson in life and how things never stay the same. Another busy morning with breakfast for the crew in our oceanfront condo. This place is amazing and I’d gladly come back in the summer…although I’m willing to bet that the crowds here in the summer might make it a less enjoyable stay.  We hit the road, Katie with her anti-nausea wristbands , unfortunately for her, she is prone to motion sickness like me and my grandma. These wristbands seem to help! We stopped at Bodie Lighthouse before leaving the island and snapped a few photos in the chilly wind. Our next stop was Tina and Tim’s house in Grifton, NC. They have just over ten ...

I slept poorly and woke early at 7am. And lo and behold, I see the sun just peeking over the ocean from the front of our condo. Sunrise was 7:13am and here it is… My morning thoughts of travel were reflecting on how many new homes we saw on the drive from Virginia Beach to here in Kitty Hawk. It seemed like each one was 3,000sq ft or larger and all in the farmhouse style. Who is buying these mansions I wondered? Who is paying 600-800k because I checked Zillow and they aren’t cheap. New Yorkers apparently. And I don’t blame them one bit. My mom’s entire family left New York in the early 70’s and came to sunny California. I don’t think that anybody owns the land in any state. We are all just visitors on a journey. To each their own.  First stop of the day was the aquarium and with our crew of 12. We had 10:30am reservations so after a breakfast of toaster waffles, sausage, and cantaloupe, we headed over ready to check out the fish! It was a pretty cool aquarium and thankfully it was...

Today we cleaned up and moved out of Virginia Beach. We packed up the Chrysler Pacifica rental van and headed thirty minutes south to Munden Point Park where they have 18 holes of disc golf waiting for us. This park had great reviews and we were blessed with a sunny day (our first on this trip). We had an interesting Amish crew in front of us playing through which was a sight you don’t see every day. And we met a few other players who agreed that this was a good course for us to check out on our travels. Todd got to use his Sidewinder which he got for his birthday   I’ll attach the scorecard below so you can check out how the crew did. With my bum shoulder, I just watch and occasionally video for the youngest who have Instagram pages dedicated to their love of the sport. Recently Emily has even gotten a sponsorship from one company so she’s trying to produce more action packed vids for the gram 😜  And after all of that exercise, our crew was in search of a late lunch (seems...