Mountains-To-Sea

The Mountains-To-Sea Trail is a long-distance (1175 miles) trail for hiking and backpacking that transverses North Carolina from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.  Aloma and I did it in six days.

No, we didn’t hike.  We drove.  We enjoy spending a week in the mountains in late July to get a break from the summer heat.  This year, Jennifer planned a beach outing to celebrate Ben’s starting college.  Since it was at the same time we had scheduled the mountains, we rescheduled for September.  We already had reservations for the beach in September, so we returned home from the mountains and six days later drove to North Myrtle Beach.

In past years, our week vacation at Cashiers, NC included daily hikes to the many waterfalls in the area.  Now, we mostly sit on the deck of our condo enjoying the cool mountain air, enjoying lunch at different restaurants and taking short walks.

At the beach, we lay by the pool but mostly sat on our ocean-front balcony watching the ocean and people on the beach and the pool.  I love to swim in the ocean and did get in a few times.

While we were gone, summer continued in Raleigh with temperatures in the nineties for most days.  So we did get a break from the summer heat.

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