We certainly took the long way back to the boat this time. We had breakfast in a little place called Duesenbergs in Catonsville. They apparently really like those cars. On our way down from Annapolis I wanted to visit one of the Crutchfield stores in VA. I remember drooling over their audio catalogs as a kid. Nice enough for a car stereo place, but a little disappointing nonetheless. Maybe next time.
On the way towards Charlottesville we stopped at a lookout. Apparently lots of things have happened here. We need to come back to this area when we have some more time. Heather hasn't been to Monticello, and I haven't been for decades. Maybe while we're getting a new car stereo.
I hadn't been to Richmond in 30 years, since doing a vendor survey for Hughes at a place that also made cigarette manufacturing equipment. To check it out we had dinner at trendy place downtown called Secret Sandwich Society. It was fun and the downtown was great for walking around. That night we made it to Durham NC, another area on my list. In the morning we had breakfast at a nice little place called True Flavors Diner. Excellent food (pork belly omelet!), and pancakes the size of hubcaps.
We headed off to New Bern NC. Before I smashed my hand, this is where we had intended to leave the boat last year. This was an inexpensive area, not so cold to have to really worry about multi-day freezes, and gives us a head start north. Then came hurricane Florence.
Since this is so far up the river there is apparently very little tide, maybe a foot. They had 10 foot pilings at the dock. Unfortunately the storm surge was 11.5 feet, so many boats simply rose right off the pilings and floated off during the hurricane, which didn't end well for most of them. If our boat had been there it would as likely as not been seriously damaged. The entire area was still in the process of cleaning up. The first picture below shows the high water point for earlier storms. The floor in this clubhouse is several feet above the normal waterline out in the marina. Florence beat them all.
We made it that night to Myrtle Beach. Had breakfast in the morning at Johnny D’s Waffles and Bakery. Clean, well run place with good food. The chef is an autism spokesperson. We took the 17 along the coast to Charleston, then on to the I95 back to Brunswick GA. We were finally back on the boat. It took us an extra day, but we saw a lot more than just I95.
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