Southport , NC

 

This is where our new adventure in life begins. Southport has always felt like home to me, so being here as we have left Asheville was really a very easy transition. Our plan is to keep Southport as our home port and start traveling up and down the east coast. We will spend our summers here in Southport or maybe sometimes a little farther north. And our winters we will spend South, FL ect... We will be making these moves based on the travel nurse assignment up and down the east coast. The travel nursing field is a great way to work and still live this kind of lifestyle. We choose from a list of jobs in the areas we are wanting to travel to. So we are looking at coastal jobs up and down the east coast.

 

So life in Southport full time is everything and more what expected. Its a great small coastal town just South of Wilmington,NC. So not only do you have the small town feel, you also have a growing coastal city to explore.

 

 

Our evening in Southport has conceited of sailing, bike riding, exploring on the dinghy, walking trails and of course great seafood. We have also went to many concerts around town.

Here are a few pictures of our time here in Southport.

And of course one of the best the best restaurant on the coast of NC according to a report in USA Today. Provisions Company

 

 Great food and views.

 

We have also been able to do a lot of things in downtown Wilmington with our friends Don and Erin although we all know Erin would like it best if they came to visit us in Southport so would could eat at Provisions. We all love Provisions but we tell Erin sometimes its nice to try new places (inside joke)

Provisions Company!!!!!!!!

 

We have had some great times both in Southport and Wilmington. One thing we did was go to a wine and painting date night in Wilmington. Never done that before , but we all had a blast.

 

And yes we sold them to a art collector right after we completed our master pieces ha ha.

 

 

July 4th Southport

  At times we have seen a few interesting things to say the least wash up on the beach.





 

 

Not a place any of us want to be......

 

 

Our new pet on F dock lol

 

We have truly seen a lot of cool things but sometimes its just nice sitting around anchored up in the basin and just taking in the salt air and sunsets

 

We moved our boat to Carolina Beach about one month ago to be closer to the hospital (more on that later).  So far though, we have had a great summer and are looking forward to the upcoming move south. We will post our winter location soon, but Tina has extended here in Wilmington until November 1; so, it will be a little later than October.





 I know its about time right! ha ha Well where do we begin , last blog we were just settling in. To be honest we still feel like we are on a vacation.

 

 

 

In our last post we had a few projects going on and some are still on going. Our Haul it is Sept 28th and the boat will be out of the water for a week. We are having the bottom painted , and repacking and fiber glassing the cutless bearing strut.

 

We also started a window project that became a 2 week ordeal. We hired some local guys to do the job and replace our old port light windows with new ones. Well that started and it was looking great.

 

 

Then the new windows went in.

And they looked great!!

But not long after they went on they cracked. So they redone both sides not once but three times and every time the windows would crack.

 

Turns out they were using the wrong adhesive, but by this time we were done and said we are out. So they did the right thing and put our old windows back in and didn't charge a dime , which if they did I would not have payed just saying. So the old windows are back in not leaking now so we will revisit this project soon.

 

We also have other projects going on but we will get to them later.

 

Now just some life on the water. As we said before I was able and am very thankful for being able to retire at my age from a great company. I do and will miss my co-workers and my customers from Brevard rd.

 

But I do not miss calling in for 9.5 or Hey Lyndon what the heck are you thinking this is a 13 hour day you dispatched me with lol. Or Nov and Dec and Helper boards and helper time cards and boards and hey my helper didn't show up ect...... ect..... lol UPS wow. We had our own language that I sometimes sit back and laugh about. Airs, over 9.5 , call tags which back in the day one shots lol, and one of my favorites Working Terminated. Got to love it and then again maybe not ha ha.

 

Well I traded all of that for.............A much nicer reason for coffee in the mornings

And with that I will end this short blog and will add another later tonight or tomorrow