Touring Oriental

What a dirty trick, I tell you to check our progress on the two maps Sam has added to the blog and we haven't moved!  We signed up for the courtesy car River Dunes has available and headed to Oriental.  Oriental isn't all that big, so most of the stores are the "Express" version.  We visited the West Marine Express, the Walmart Express, and an amazing little BIG hardware store.  As we drove in Kathy was looking at the map and mentioned Oriental had 2 banks, two grocery stores, one pharmacy, etc., etc. and 17 marine stores!  We got our shopping done and then went down to the harbor to look around.  We spied another C-400 and realized we had just received an email from Andy Shanks who had joined us in June for the C-400/445 rendezvous telling us to be on the lookout for Magic, so we stopped and chatted with Tim and Diane Leighton who are also heading south.

We puttered around all afternoon and various boat projects...there are always boat projects! and then joined our group for the cruiser's supper up at the Harbor House here at River Dunes.  We had remembered them from five years ago, but they had gotten away from it our last time through so we were glad they brought them back.

It's quite a good deal, dinner is $12 and includes soup, salad, potato bar and dessert...all you can eat.  The bar is open for wine and beer.  We will probably visit again tomorrow night!

We were all set to wait for Pete to return from Delaware, but now the weather is also telling us we should hang out here a few more days.  Rain and wind are on the way, and some of it seems to be remnants of Hurricane Patricia all the way from Mexico!!  ~~~_/)~~~M&D