Kure Keys Motel

08/21/2021

David Tripp
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Hey~ Spendin' my last coupla nights, here, at The Kure Keys Motel.....been an insane month since I closed her down, mid-July.......lawyers, realtors, inspectors....all that stuff......PLUS workin' daily to sell, donate, relocate the 25+ years of accumulated stuff before the "wrecking ball" takes over next week...... 🙁 Electricity, phone, internet, etc. will be gone on Tuesday..... I've seldom been able to actually *stay* here, over the years.......and certainly never when it's been closed and vacant........ Quiet....no "owner/operator distractions".....just chillin' up on the deck, absorbin' the ocean......with a moon rising over the ocean that, though not quite full, is bein' MOST accommodating! 🙂 (Kinda what I envisioned when I got into this, so long ago.....but, then, well.....*reality* & stuff! And once you're into it.....you're flippin' INTO it, y'know? 😉 ) So weird that the tail end is soooooo cool & beautiful.......there's a 'cane out there, well offshore.....and for once, it seems, it doesn't feel our "magnetism"! 😉 The sky is beautiful & calm, as the sun goes down........and the WAVES are large, mellow & rollin'.....a surfer's dream! 🙂 That offshore hurricane is kickin' up some flavor full stuff!!!!! 🙂 Unfortunately, it seems to be aimin' at the northeast.......New York....
and *Maine*!!! 🙁 I have 25 years of dealin' with such junk....have danced me a 'cane dance ......or 12! 😉 .... so I'm not *too* easily intimidated, any more. Those folks up there.......it gives me worries.........Make a nice, quick turn east, Henri......y'hear?

07/15/2021

Well, my friends, guests, and treasured "acquaintances".......I reckon that *that* may well be THAT, for the Kure Keys Motel, and my awesome staff of JoAnn, Mark and Tyler.... I shut her down, today, so as not to be holding rooms for folks, when the rooms may not be available when they're counting on them. The actual closing of the sale of the property did not happen, today, as scheduled.....(a handful of lawyers are involved, so it's no surprise that "stuff" happens..... ;-) ) We are now hoping to close the sale on July 22.....but I can't wait until then to be "takin' care of business"....so I've closed us down.... :-) To be painfully honest, I'm breathing a bit of a sigh of relief, as I simply can't (physically) continue to pilot this "thing"... On the other hand, , I anticipate an overwhelming wave of sadness.....when the next coupla months of serious work are done, and the actual demolition of my little "slice" begins......:-( 26 years at the helm here......and *numerous* butt kickin's.......It is what it is, I reckon...... ;-) We'll be selling off the "stuff" of the place over the next 2-3 weeks......appliances, decorations, linens, kitchenware, supplies, POOL SUPPLIES & *chemicals*, TV's, grills.....SHEESH! If you're interested, please call ahead! I can't be keepin' "normal business hours/days" and doing all of the stuff that I must...... :-) OK......perhaps I was not totally truthful..... Gotta grab me a tissue before I press "post"....... :-( Missin' y'all, already........

06/26/2021

David Tripp
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❤ lolol....ran into this today.....finally got home so I could mess with postin' it up...... 🙂 "Hands up......let's HOOP!", from a few years ago at the Ocean Front Park in Kure Beach, NC, when Suzi House Mclean and her troop of hoopers were often "holdin' court"...... ❤ This is a Kure Beach cop.... bein' a really good, COOL guy at a time when much of our country was denigrating these valuable folks...... If ya can't catch the good natured/*good* humor in this.......well, bless your heart....... 🙂 (No extra charge for the helpful hoopin' tip: *Hands UP*, hooper!)
This is among the treasured things that I'm hatin' to leave behind, here, soon...........Criminy!~~

06/22/2021

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According to the army corps of engineers and Wrightsville Beach town manager Tim Owens, the ship is a privately contracted research vessel testing sand sources and cores.

06/19/2021

:-( Our first of 2021......... Be gentle, Ma'am, 'K???? ;-)

Saturday we should be ok for the most part outside of some scattered showers and storms. Probably ok to grill and pool. The bulk of the rain does not arrive until late on Sunday and into early Monday. Official totals are shown below. Flooding may be a problem for some.

06/13/2021

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My son, Carter, now 18, and my daughter, Emily, now 34.......time flies~~