Sounds absurd, right? It probably is, but I embrace it! Discovering that Hilton Head was a mere five hours easy drive from Asheville, our new adopted home, was too tempting. We will never abandon OBX as our favourite ocean scene with the best drive ever starting from the cute village of Duck down through Nags Head and ferrying over to Ocracoke Island to say hi to the horses, but oddly, it's three hours farther despite being in the same state in which we live ... so ... Hilton Head in the next state under will get at least equal attention from us with it's slightly warmer beaches and faster trip.
Even more fortunate to our exploration of adopting the Carolina's as our new base of operations is that Charleston, a lovely old seaside town is only four hours away with the best ever cider stop on this quiet highway south of town, not to mention an absurdly huge tree; a mere 28 feet around the trunk.
So after a week of being relaxed, checking out the new digs (in a state-wide sense), and overall excited about 60-70 degree weather in December, we head to Malta and Italy for the rest of December next week!
