Eastern, 2006 ... well, the forecast for Kingston, Ontario wasn’t great, actually, pretty bad. BUT! The forecast for North Carolina was fantastic, with summer-like temperatures. Summer as in Kingston summer.
It did not take us long to load the car (and the tent, just in case), and to drive off to North Carolina.

We wanted to see flowers, we wanted to have warm sun, good food (fish!) ... and a change of scenery.

And we like North Carolina, we passed here through many times - by boat, but never took our time to explore places away from the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW); although the guidebooks were full of niece descriptions of old towns and romantic places.

Now, we had the time - and the car with us.

Indeed, the weather was great, enabling us to pitch our tent close to New Bern/Beaufort, and run day-trips from there. Up the Pamlico Sound, up the Albemarle Sound, making use of the free ferries carrying us over.
Bath was a romantic little town, sleepy, nicely located on the water. We wished we could have had a coffee here, to sit down and do nothing than just looking - no luck here. The only café was still closed for the season, indeed, we seem to be the only tourists here! And that around Easter!