The Road Trip

13/10/2024

These small businesses are open!

Waynesville and Maggie Valley NC are now open and welcoming visitors! Learn more: https://blueridgemountainlife.com/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountains/

06/09/2024

This would be a serious hike!

https://mountainstoseatrail.org/the-trail/ #:~:text=The%20Mountains%2Dto%2DSea%20Trail,diversity%20that%20is%20North%20Carolina.

Giveaway Alert!

An awesome member of our Facebook Group (have you joined yet?) has decided to do a giveaway for a copy of Discovering North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea Trail by Jerry Barker.

They ended up with two copies and want someone else to have one of them! How cool is that?

To enter, head to our FB Group (bit.ly/MSTFBgroup) and comment on the pinned post. It's that easy! Giveaway ends this evening, July 19.

Good luck!

Also, keep your eyes pealed for more giveaways coming soon!

25/07/2024

14/05/2024

Southport, North Carolina is a little seacoast town and one of the oldest communities in coastal North Carolina, with ties to virtually every major American event. Located at the mouth of the tidal Cape Fear River and on the Intracoastal Waterway – a 3,000-mile consisting of canals, bays, inlets, saltwater rivers and bays running from Florida to Massachusetts along the Atlantic and then following the Gulf Coast to Texas. For the full story:
https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/southport-north-carolina/
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Southport, North Carolina is a little seacoast town and one of the oldest communities in coastal North Carolina, with ties to virtually every major American event. Located at the mouth of the tidal…

22/03/2024

05/02/2024

Located off the coast of North Carolina two nautical miles from Southport, North Carolina, Bald Head Island is home to Old Baldy Lighthouse, numerous restaurants, a private golf course, and pristine beaches. This nature loving island is home of the state’s oldest standing lighthouse, Old Baldy. Read the entire story here
https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/bald-head-island-north-carolina/
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Located off the coast of North Carolina two nautical miles from Southport, North Carolina, Bald Head Island is home to Old Baldy Lighthouse, numerous restaurants, a private golf course, and pristin…

21/01/2024

Nashville is the hometown of country music and the birthplace of bluegrass, with roots in R&B, and a thriving pop and rock scene. Over 15 million visitors flock to the “Capital of Country Music” year-round for live music in the nightclubs and taverns. Read the entire story here: https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/nashville-tennessee/
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17/01/2024

Charleston, South Carolina has many American “firsts” – the first golf club (Harleston Green established in 1786 the birthplace of golf), the first public college (College of Charleston 1770), the first museum (Charleston Museum 1773), the first theater playhouse (Dock Street Theatre, 1736), the first shots of the Civil War were fired here(1861)....read more here: https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/charleston-south-carolina

15/01/2024

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14/01/2024

Perched on a forty foot bluff overlooking a bend on the Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia was founded by Oglethorpe as the last colonial capital established by Britain in the United States. It is one of my favorite places we have seen, and I plan on going back again as there is so much to see.

Savannah’s historical district is something to see – filled with cobblestone and manicured park “squares”, horse-drawn carriages and European architecture. Savannah’s was the first in America to plant trees in an organized manner along streets and boulevards and in parks and squares.

Read more here: https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/savannah-geogia/
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Perched on forty foot bluff overlooking a bend on the Savannah River, Savannah, Georgia was founded by Oglethorpe as the last colonial capital established by Britain in the United States. It is on…

23/12/2023

French Quarter in Charleston, South Carolina. Amazing old architecture from 1700 and 1800s.

20/12/2023

Asheville, North Carolina, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, originated as an outpost in 1797 with frontiersmen such as the likes of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. A sub-mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the adjacent the Smokey Mountains, which run from eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina starting at Knoxville, TN to the edge of Asheville, NC. The Blue Ridge Mountains are the southern section of the Appalachian range from North Carolina to Virgina. A blue haze fog visible to the naked eye coats them, thus their name. Read more here: https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/asheville-north-carolina/

15/12/2023

The Outer Banks (OBX) is a 200 mile stretch of barrier islands with pristine, unspoiled beaches. European settlers resided in the area by the late 1600s and early 1700s. Prior to early 1800, the area was separated from Virginia and the neighboring town of Duck by inlets and was accessible only by boat. Read more here: https://www.thedigitaltraveler.com/the-outer-banks-north-carolina/
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