Wilmington Travel Blogs - Page 2

My client in Myrtle Beach asked me to fly into Wilmington instead of Myrtle Beach to save a couple of hundres bucks.  No big deal for me.  I like driving.  After a three hour layover in Atlanta I get into Wilmington around 7 and it's raining.  I head to the Avis counter and ni…

Continuing north after a good visit with my sister, I arrived at the Elks Lodge in Wilmington, North Carolina. On the way north I passed through Myrtle Beach and found that I had driven right into Harley Week. What a traffic mess. Every parking lot plus the roads were loaded with thousands of motor…

When you get a month to yourself before starting a career, what do you do? Mofo, you go half way around the world, that's what!

Wilmington, NC is a very cool place.  Featuring a splendid location stretching from the Cape Fear River to the Atlantic Ocean, the town was a vital center long ago and has recently re-emerged.  Michael Jordan is likely the most well known original inhabitant, but David Brinkley, Char…

A school field trip to Wilmington.

I was surprised by Wilmington. It definitely has Southern charm, a compact historic downtown area, a stretching commercial district, and great classic style houses, but too many churches for its own good! Really, every intersection had at least 2 churches on it. But they were pretty...as if each ne…