Great video. Grew up in Wilmington, 1943-1967, graduated college, took married, and went in the Army all in within 3 weeks. School was let out when the USS North Carolina was moored, think it was in the fall of 1962. What memories of a great place to live.

I love how positive you are about my city!! I take it for granted sometimes! ❤ thank you

Lived in Wilmington at the turn of the century. pretty town, lots of tourists, night life enjoyable, but very prone to hurricanes.

3:00. Look at that building on the right that is dark brick for the first two thirds and lighter brick for the top third. Counting from the top left window, move down 5 floors and to the right 3 windows. That was my apartment from 1982 through 1985. It is a two bedroom apartment and the rent back then was $425. I really enjoyed my time in Wilmington, NC.

YAY SPODAS DRIVIN ME AROUND TODAY!! ... LET'S ROLL.😃👍

Wilmington has beautiful residential homes with Southern homes dating back to 1800s. Many of these homes have been used in movies and some actors rented the homes for temperary housing while working their craft in a movie production.

Two hour shot straight down I40 from home. We love it. Carolina and Kure beachs just down the sand. This is one of your best videos to date.

I am absolutely diggin' what you're showing us my brother! DAY-UUUUUUM!

Wilmington, who knew!👍👍. Girl, you are representing for us. You look fantastic!👍👍👍

I am sitting here in India and watching your videos for a while. Just love the feeling of watching these American cities and small towns from the comforts of my living room. Thanks for your efforts.

You couldn't have picked a better place to stay than Wrightsville Beach. My husband and I met in a town south of Wilmington, Southport. We always went to Wilmington when we were dating. That was 50 years ago this month. If you were there in the springtime, the Oleander trees would be in bloom, and I would suggest going down Oleander Drive. It is quite a sight to behold. Definitely a beautiful part of the country. It will always hold a special place in my heart. ❤️

You are a lucky guy in more ways then one. Enjoy your travels.

Watching the vid with our morning coffee. Love Wilmington. Thank you for the beautiful footage.

One of my best friends from college was from Wrightsville Beach. Overall, NC was about the best state in the Union. The northern invasion is rapidly lowering its quality, though.

I really like touring old WWII ships, need to add the North Carolina to my list. It looks great with that paint job and it's cool to see the Kingfisher floatplane up on the deck. That beach looks terrific but you're right about the water temp, looking online it's 55 degrees...brrrr! The Holiday Inn looks pretty nice...I currently have enough rewards points for a free night, so I could afford to splurge on dinner! (I'll pass on breakfast though 🙂)

With Charleston and Savannah down the coast, Wilmington often gets overlooked. It's one of my favorite historic seaside communities.

Another fine video about your travels sir. See you on your next video. Take care and be safe.

Thanks for the tour of Wilmington, safe travels

Gorgeous video! I absolutely love the downtown and waterfront areas of Wimington as well as the Atlantic just to the east.

I know you saw my post from your Biloxi, MS visit. All of that still remains. Great work. I actually worked at Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington for about 16 years. My wife and I grew up in Oak Island and Boiling Springs Lakes not far from Wilmington. We moved to Biloxi and the Gulf Coast because the film industry is in its infant stages of being developed there. I witnessed and worked in Wilmington as it was growing in the film and television there. Thank you again for showing and presenting, good or bad, sites some might never see. Safe travels.

North Carolinian here. Thank you for showing off one of our beautiful cities! ❤

Surprised no one is discussing issues with the drinking water associated with Chemours in the Cape Fear river basin...?

Friday morning and the sun is coming up so had to watch this before cracking on with the day. The first building you showed in the city, "Love" I think it was, love the stonework. For a Friday morning it seems very polite and I can see why they use it for filming. The houses are gob smackingly wonderful, the whole area looks clean and well maintained. Hotel looks very good even if the food is a bit pricey but you have the sea to look over. It looked like a mill pond but then reverted to the Atlantic I remember from over the pond, grey and wild. Wonderful start to the day and thank you for another interesting tour and making me try to think how many years ago I was lying in a pool with a beer. Be safe and see you in the next one.

This is my town. I’m glad you enjoyed it. There’s so much to Wilmington. It’s amazing here.

Great Video..............Thanks !!

Really enjoy your content and narrating. You guys are awesome!

I agree very Picturesque. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the tour. Prices really weren't bad for beach front stay. I always loved the southern lifestyle, and this little city seems to have it all !

Thank you for another 34 mins of pure joy

That was some Groovy music on the beach drone video! I was digging it! Almost got out of my seat to Groove to it👍😂

Love the beautiful big homes!!!! I liked that palm tree in the neighborhood.

Well first I want to say, GOOD to see you again Nicole!!! Been a while!! And now man what a Beautiful City!! And as always very informative as always!!! So you two are great people and I always enjoy all your work you do!!! Stay safe stay healthy and always me HAPPY 😊!!!

Wilmington is beautiful. Lots of movies and shows filmed here 🤍. Beautiful southern homes. Fun night life 🥰

I live in Raleigh but I have been to Wilmington a couple times. Wonderful places with lots of nice restaurants and bars to hit up after the beach.

Nice video,I am from Germany and was 9x in Wilmington the last few years,I like Wilmington very much.

Excellent video. You two make me smile. Beautiful city. 5 out of 5. Have fun

Lived in Wilmington in the 80’s while in high school. One of my favorite places. Wrightsville Beach is really nice.

Lord Sir, The audio on this one is great nice work, As usual a joy to watch.😀

You do such a nice job on your tours of America , thankyou for such nice videos.

So cool. Springfield really looks interesting. 🤗🤗🤗

Awesome video. Loved it very much.

Loved Wilmington’s cape fear river area, also Wrightsville, Topsail, Carolina and Kure beaches! ❤

That is a sweet suite! Wilmington is a beautiful city. UNC-Wilmington is a great school. You did a great job of capturing the city and the beach. NC has some great beach towns.

This is a great video. I can't wait to vacation again in a place like this

Thanks! I also had no idea Wilmington looked this way.

Gorgeous upscale Holiday Inn - love it.

amazing video thanks for sharing

I live just north of Wilmington (Jacksonville) .. work from Wilmington.. and stay most of my summer on topsail island .) Surf city.. enjoy the friend laid back way of life..been here 1986 from Indiana .. north Carolina has more military forces than any other state in America.. semper Fi marines..

I came to Wilmington with some college friends on a fishing trip back in 1969, got separated from them and here we are in 2023 and I still haven't gone back home. I refuse to leave until I find my "Fishing Buddies" LOL. I love living here.

First time I shall Wilmington was 1971 as a young Marine. Way diff only highway 17. But very cool beach town. Laid back. I’ve been numerous time again always enjoy being there.

Awesome as usual...lovin' the drone shots and riding along to learn US geography...what you don't know is that I'm looking for a new place to live and you are helping immensely. Thanks!!!

Thank you for coming to North Carolina Wilmington is a beautiful al City so is Carolina Beach and some of the other Islands wished you Nicole kryptek the trolley tour are the horse-drawn carriage ttour Hope you can come back again and visit North Carolina again

Great place, love the beach there.

Great video. I'm enjoying it more and more. I was born in North Carolina, in the town of Shelby.

I wish I could visit Wilmington. Looks very laid back and nice.

Hi, I appreciate your videos. I ❤ learning all of your history “tidbits”; very much a fun time to learn more things that I did in High school. I love your appreciation of older homes and not “cookie cutter.” Please review Richmond. The Forest Hill and Westover Hills neighborhoods off of the James River. Stunning.

I live North of Wilmington about 50 miles to be exact and have always lovedWilmington. There is a great heal of history in that town and those old homes date back into the 1700’s It is a college town and there is lots of old money there.

I’m from Lincoln, UK and I’ve been Wilmington twice. I got engaged here on the river walk and I kayaked on the big river way down to the house where they filmed Dawson’s Creek (it killed my shoulders!). It’s my favourite place I’ve been in the USA!

Scallop dish looks amazing!

I drove from Raleigh to. Wilmington regular for work installs. Nice area and town from what I remember. Hurricanes and humidity though, I moved to back to the dry and high in the Rockies where working outdoors was not miserable.

I'm in possession of a jigsaw puzzle of that very ship that was given to my family many years ago by my late grandfather who had visited that ship/museum. He bought it from their gift shop. It was one of the last gifts, if not the last one, given to my family by him before he passed away from cancer.

I like the way u narrate and are so specific explaining...love it....awesome, simple, and well.said.....❤😊

I like Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Been many times. During Summer they offer Trolley Tours of all the Historical homes and area. Not far up the road from Southport, you can take a Ferry Boat ride over to Bald Head Island which is nice as well where the only form of transportation on the Island are golf carts. Very natural area.

Nice 👍 in a lot of town's in Colorado you have Hot Spring's Pools and natural where you can be outside in them year round. Usually each pool is a different temperature 💕

Loved your hotel suite, very nice!!!!

I am often stunned at what I see as well…….

We took a boat tour there and the guide pointed out Andy Griffith s home and the owner of Food Lion chain.

It's chill and laid back

Wilmington is gorgeous ! I love the houses and the Cape Fear River. Gorgeous downtown too. Thank you for all of the trivia. Resort town looks nice too. Love the drone footage! Great hotel! Wow!

I used to go there every weekend. I love the north Carolina coastline

It is wonderful to see some of the older towns able to keep their beauty. The homes, the streets and the different things in town that add to the beauty. and I imagine in the south and in the North East it is really something to see with the very old architecture giving it that something really special. So many beautiful towns, especially the smaller ones, have been so devastated by the outsourcing of industry overseas, leaving them a hollow shell of what they used to be and robbing them of the charm and leaving the blight. And then, with the advent of malls and box stores in the outter areas of many towns and small cities, that has also left a blighted mark on the downtowns and older areas that were left to rot rather then keeping them and their history. The big irony now is that the malls and big box stores that drained many towns for 60+ years are now left to be hollow shells themselves. And many creative people have turned back to the old areas to rejuvinate them and make them cool again. Sadly, that only with a small percent of these towns. Many are just dying away as the new ghost towns as people move out.

I love going to Wilmington some beautiful places and thing to do we use to go camping there the aquarium is a site to see plus the old Fort

Looks like some good surf fishing right there in front of your hotel room.I found out the best way to surf fish is throw a cast net into the surf waves . And what ever you catch in the cast net put it on your hook and cast it a little further.

I love this video. Thank you 😊

LOL Dude Hats off to you and your significant other...Great Video!

It has been awhile since I've been to Wilmington. We would drive down to visit my brother-in-law and his wife. It was a shortdrive as we lived in Goldsboro , North Carolina. The beach is nice but it gets crowded early. Check out the courthouse.

Awesome looking church

Enjoyed the drone footage

Our resort condo is in Myrtle Beach, we go between here and Wilmington several times a year, either winter, or summer...

Great hotel pick! New subscriber great overall content... viewing from Southern AZ

Lord Spoda you and your wife had a great time in holiday in resorted it was a beautiful place to stay and have fun

Surprised to find you visited my home town. Much different back in the 50s and 60s. Yep I watched them bring the battleship NC in back in 1961. Wrightsville beach isn't quite the same as it was back in the 60s and 70s. Little too snobby now... Thanks for dropping by..

Wilmington seems wonderful! Nice, clean, well-maintained downtown, not alot of crime, no homeless problem, beautiful beaches, close to Raleigh, and very peaceful. It’s a hidden gem in North Carolina for sure!

Awesome area ! Fancier motel than I can afford but I enjoyed seeing it. I stayed at the Holiday Express in Amarillo Tx a couple weeks ago. Clean and nice . $104 / night and the same breakfast you had was with the room ! My room didn't have a view of the Ocean though ! 8 ) Would love to tour that Battle Ship ! Ya'll drive safe !

We love it here...17 yrs so far :)

You should totally go to a hotspring or hotspring resort in the desert if you love hiking it's a great adventure to be had !!

We would like to thank you for your compliments, born and raised here, and more than likely will pass here.

Imagine the hotel prices in the height of summer!

Amazing place.....i love it...i need to catch the London Charlotte flyer..

Nice. Haven't done too many NC beaches. Did some SC beaches. Charleston was the last I remember.

Sold on Wilmington and the hotel. Impressive to say the least. In the summer booking must be expensive and difficult. None the less, Looks like a fun place.

Hi Lord Spoda Busy. Skipped your past few videos. Shall see the videos later. All the best.

The bar area used to do karaoke on Thursday nights long ago. A couple who was staying there had a bit much to drink and decided to go at it in the hot tub. I guess they thought no one could see them since it was dark. Fun nights and memories at the Sunspree.

I've been watching your channel for awhile now. I was surprised to see you came to the city where I live. I'm glad y'all enjoyed it here. I live on the other side of town near Carolina Beach...a little bit different vibe than Wrightsville Beach. I'm curious if the people in the pool were Coast Guard or Lifeguards... interesting. Btw we do have homeless folks here.

Gotta remember that Wilmington is an old city. Pirates lived there before general population took over. Writesville Beach is expensive compared to Carolina or Topsail beaches. Just to the north is Figure 8 Island. It's private and owners are politicians, entertainers, and old money. The Trask and Cameron families built Figure 8. With UNCW college local, the younger peeps keep the night life hopping. With the addition of I-40 interstate Wilmington exploded. DeLarentis movie studios opened in the 1980's. Movies like Firestarter and Maximum Overdrive were filmed there in the early times. I lived in Carolina Beach until the traffic became so aggravating I moved north to Carteret County where it's more laid back. Great Video

we love Wilmington. We go twice a year and stay at Blockade Runner

Love North Carolina, lived in Hampstead N.C. For a couple yrs!! Rented a place in Surf City while building our home.

Make sure you like this video! It is a classic video! I am from Wilmington, NC, and I will move back home.

You guys are so lovely!!

When I heard the music I knew the drone was coming :)