FORT MACON STATE PARK, NC (OCT. 23, 2009)

Up fairly early, but squandered the early part away on nothing very important.
I got a call from our optometrist in Bellingham, WA., saying he had fixed my glasses (I broke both stems when I sat on them at the beginning of our trip, and, having no spare, I’ve superglued them at least a half dozen times…
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do…
The strange thing is, I‘ve been told, from Idaho to Maine, the glasses could not be fixed… One optometrist even went as far as saying it’d cost six to seven hundred bucks to repair them…
Well… Bully on them!
My guy, Dave, at “Everything in Sight” (catchy name, huh?) did the job for fifty dollars, and he’s sending them to a RV Park down the road, where we’ll get them in a few days… So… Is that cool, or what?
Thanks, Dave! I truly appreciate your time and effort on this…
I’ll certainly recommend “Everything in Sight” to everyone I meet.
Other than that, I verified our reservation in Biloxi, MS, for over Christmas and New Year’s… There’s a 60-day “lead window” when you can make reservations to most “RPI” and “Coast to Coast” RV Parks, so we couldn’t do that until today (since we’re arriving on Dec. 23), but we got it done, so we are now good to go until January 6, 2010...
Don’t know where we’ll be between Jan. 6 and the middle of February, when we’ll be in New Orleans for Marti Gras, but we’ll figure something out…
I’m just rambling on here today, aren‘t I?
Oh, well…
Since it didn’t rain this morning, we decided to take one last trip out to Fort Macon State Park (at the Northern end of Emerald Isle), since we‘re moving on tomorrow…
If you look at the pictures, you’ll see the same “quiet” (except for crashing waves) landscape we waded through last time…
Not many people today?
Just a few fishers trying their luck here and there…
Even the bird population was taking it easy, until I came a bit too close, and most took flight…
Saw two black-looking pelicans for the first time, by the way…
Thought they liked it better further down South?
Lu picked another bag of shells…
If this goes on everywhere we’ll be on a beach, I’ll certainly have to figure out how to carry all the extra weight… A distribution problem, for sure…
Well… The sky slowly, but surely, turned gray as the morning waned and afternoon took hold…
It was time to say adios to the State Park… But, before we left, we spent an hour going through Fort Macon… The new (and very impressive) Visitor’s Center is almost finished, but not open yet, so we took a stroll through the old battle station… Quite some history here, as you probably know…
Anyway, it was time to scoot… Black clouds dominated the sky, and before we got home, we got dumped on!
Was going to fill up the truck, but decided to wait a while, which was a good thing, ‘cause it cleared up after a couple of hours… Hence, I didn’t get wet when I did go to fill up...
The bathroom hatch had been left open, but no serious problem… And that’s it, that’s the end of another segment… Another day in the life of the Vagabonds…
Take care and remember to check in on us once in a while… PICTURES:
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