I took off last Friday and headed down toward the Coast.  Indeed, Helen’s Kitchen was again open and I had my favorite breakfast of country ham, eggs over medium, home fries, biscuits, red-eye gravy, and coffee, leaving a good tip because it made me feel good.

Looks like fresh yellow paint on the walls, and definitely a new wood floor.  The paintings of Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were gone, but most of the other items had been returned to the walls.

I then went to the Onslow County Library on Doris Avenue.  I like the bathroom, and then to quickly peruse the current issue of Our State Magazine.  Before leaving, I asked a Librarian at the front desk if many people checked out the movie DVDs.  She said yes, and I asked if they would be willing to take some DVDs that I wanted to donate.  She said, “Yes.”  No reason to try to palm them off on the Library if they didn’t want or had a demand for them.  *I have two dresser drawers full of movie DVDs, most of which are Sci-Fi, but not all.  I plan to take them down the next time I visit Jacksonville… a couple of months.

I then headed up to New Bern with the goal of heading on to the Minnesott Beach – Cherry Branch ferry.  I used the navigation in the car, and made it to the ferry just before they started loading.  Only about 10 cars total, so we were on and heading across the water in no time.  *I used the “head” on the ferry.

Instead of going right to Havelock, I turned left and came the long way back into Beaufort.

I drove along the waterfront in Beaufort and then headed back over to Morehead City.  I stopped at the Belk in Morehead City… to use the bathroom, and to see what they had.  *They had a pair of men’s Nunn-Bush sandals and it looked like they were marked down from $70 to 20.99 in red ink pen.  No clerk was around, and I couldn’t find a box for the shoes, and they did fit, so I took them down to a far end register.  The woman clerk checked and instead of being $20.99, they were a little over $10.  I also bought a belt, marked down from $34 to $25.  They fit fine, and they have heavy-duty soles.