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Travel Journal- Tanglewood Park Trail

Travel Journal - Bethabara Apple Festival

Travel Journal--Such a beautiful fall day yesterday....some of our treats and findings.  I was especially pleased to find Pinova apples again..love them!  This is also a map of the two mile path we followed around Tanglewood Park...a glorious renue.

Travel Journal - Leaf Color Change

Travel journal...Found a bit of leaf color change in Asheboro NC

Journal - Splash and Splatter Pumpkins

Journal - I love this time of year -- all those fall colors and especially pumpkins.

Journal - Hibiscus

Journal - A quick sketch of a hibiscus as I waited for friends at an Oak Island coffee shop.

Journal - Splash and Splatter Rose Hips

Love Rose Hips!

Journal - First Two Weeks of October

Journal - First Two Weeks of October Smallies

Journal - Morning Glories

Journal - These sweet morning glories are decorating our roadsides ..

Journal - Sunset Beach

Journal - Last of my sketches from short trip to Sunset Beach -- Sunset Beach

Journal - Vereen Memorial Gardens

Journal - During our 'test' trip for our new to us RV, we took a ride to explore Vereen Memorial Gardens in Little River, SC. We had visited this beautiful garden a couple of years ago during a visit to Southport ... and we were excited to walk again on that marvelous marsh walk. We placed another oyster shell on the 'Wish Tree' and loved seeing the marsh in all its fall splendor.

Journal - Wishing Well Campground, Sunset Beach, NC

Journal - This past week we took our new motorhome on a 'trial' run in order to test all systems. We went to Sunset Beach for a few days, living in the RV and testing heat, cool, washer/dryer, arrangement of appliances and all. Everything worked well - as was promised ... and we are grateful for a bit of additional space to travel in. We stayed at Wishing Well Campground - a small campground a few miles from the beach ... wonderful hosts and fellow campers.

Jounal - Last weeks of September Smallies

Jounal - Last weeks of September Smallies

Journal - First Two Weeks of September Smallies

Journal - Between avoiding Hurricane Dorian, buying a new RV, selling our old RV, September got away from me. Here are the first two weeks of smallies.

Journal - Urban Sketchers of Wilmington - Halloween display

Today's sketch with the Urban Sketchers of Wilmington --- Sketch Crawl in Southport - a Halloween display in front of one of the houses on Moore Street.

Journal - Shenandoah Valley Campground

Journal - Last of the Shenandoah Valley sketches

Journal - Shenandoah Valley Campground

Journal - Since we purchased a new-to-us RV, we've been busy cleaning and stocking and readying our former motorhome for sale - so artwork has taken a backseat as has posting.

Here's a sketch I did during our Hurricane evacuation as we waited out the storm at the Shenandoah Valley Camground.

Journal - Shenandoah Valley RV Park

Journal- When we first made campsite reservations during the early warnings of Hurricane Dorian, it looked like the Richmond, VA area was in the 'line of fire' -- so we booked a campsite in Verona, VA - in the Shenandoah Valley - that was more west and more north. When we got there, Dorian was scheduled to hit the Wilmington area that night, and both C and I were anxious to keep abreast of the news and internet. Though the website for Shenandoah Valley RV Camp boasted Internet, the only place it was available for any signal was at their store, and sadly, even that was a single bar -- when it worked! Then to add more anxiety to our stay, we found our RV TV was too old to work with their new QAM system -- talk about being upset. YET!!! The kind, truly kind staff, LOANED us a TV so we could watch the weather channel ... and since we wouldn't sleep anyway, we found we could get a scant 2 bars of Verizon from our site from midnight to 7 am. So -- relief left me in tears! As did the change in Dorian's direction and our Southport RV safe and sound. It was after Dorian's passing that I could finally relax and enjoy this beautiful park for the 2 days we were there. The campsite has a lot of activities including hot tub, pool, laundry, waterfall, pond, floating down the river, and more. We even got C to sing during the karaoke night, and dance too. But that hot tub truly helped relieve all the stress!

Journal - Smallies - First Week of September

Journal - Smallies - First Week of September

Journal - Cozy Acres Gazebo

Journal - Though we worried where Hurricane Dorian was headed, the weather we had in Powhatan, VA was lovely.  We tried to relax a bit in this gazebo and pond that Cozy Acres Campground offered.