Review: A simple guide to North Carolina's port city
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
In the spring, the family and I are planning to go from Seattle back to North Carolina to "visit the kinfolk." As my granddad would say, but this time we're taking some family friends that I've never visited the southern states before and I figured since they would want to have their own adventures from time to time rather than just simply following around a bunch of backwoods country folk for four days. This little guidebook would be just about perfect. It is 12 pages that can be downloaded to a smart phone or other electronic gizmo with the Amazon Kindle app and then they will have all the necessary information to take a tour of Wilmington. This little guidebook is actually designed to be a three-day itinerary for a long weekend and listing everything from hotels to restaurants, and basically planning your itinerary for you, which ordinarily would be nice enough but since we already have the accommodations taken care of. I figure they can still make use of all of the other information such as the best beaches and shops and restaurants (although I would rather have grandma's cooking any day of the year). The book seems to be filled with quite a bit of historical information and interesting trivia and facts about Wilmington (some of which I didn't even know). So I figure it should keep these two would-be Southerners occupied, while the family discusses fishing and frog gigging and swaps embarrassing family stories and such.The itinerary seems like it would make a good long weekend or romantic getaway suggestion. But I believe it will serve the purpose and for the price (which really can't be argued with). It should work nicely for the purpose, and I might be using one of these guides if they have other southern cities for future trips.