South Carolina to North Carolina

Our vacation continues and we continue to see interesting and wonderful sights. We didn't spend much time in South Carolina, but we did have a chance to stop at another NASCAR track. We enjoy racing, but we are not that into it that we have to attend races at every track..plus that's just way to expensive! And the races never seem to be happening when we are there (we always seem to be a week early or a week late).  But since we were within a few miles of Darlington Speedway, we stopped and looked around.

We were disappointed that we could not see the track, but we did get a chance to see the museum and the Hall of Fame that is there.








Our travels then took us to New Bern, NC the birthplace of Pepsi Cola.

We thought that there was a museum here, but it was really just a gift shop and they didn't even give free samples. But Fred still prefers Pepsi over Coke any day!!

We stayed in Morehead City NC for two nights and spent Saturday roaming the little towns in the area.  We went to the Museum of the Atlantic in Beaufort and learned about the pirate Blackbird and his reign of terror in the area.  We also were lucky in that there was a wooden boat show going on that day, so we saw lots of interesting models of wooden boats and schooners. Beaufort is a quaint little town and we enjoyed walking through the downtown area and seeing the cute shops.