The day after Christmas saw us on board a ferry with car and dogs intact and headed to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. After a seriously windy and rainy Christmas. "Boxing Day" was clear and mostly sunny. Compare this to a tornado that damaged buildings, cars and even an airplane in Dayton Beach, Florida on Christmas day... we had driven through Dayton just a few days earlier on our way to St Augustine's. Since it was a two and a half hour trip, Annmarie had been worried about hurricanes, tidal waves, tsunamis and all other manner of potential natural disasters... instead it was just a very smooth ride across the water at a comfortable 13 miles an hour.
Once back on dry land we speed across a very dramatic little spit of land that looked like a seen out of the future on a lost island. Sand lined and in some cases covered good portions of the road, there was next to no traffic coming towards us and other than the others on the Ferry ride, the island was ours.
The Ferry trip was a two part journey, we had met a great couple from South Carolina on the first leg and spent the second 40 minute trip chatting and getting to know our new friends. Hopefully we'll get the opportunity to visit them in Augusta on our travels in the future. 
By the time we got to Nags Head I was pretty sacked out. I settled down to write the Blog and guess what... I'm writing yesterdays update today because I got called into a meeting or something like that...... riiiiiight ! (it bears mentioning that since it was going to be a long day we woke up at the crack of dawn... )NAGS HEAD - KILL DEVIL HILLS - KITTY HAWK
Today was great, we started early again and went directly to Kill Devil Hills... 'No kidding" that's the name of the place. I'm not sure what or where Kitty Hawk comes into play but the name of the town where the Wright brothers took the first powered flight is called "Kill Devil Hills". Anyway we went to the spot where Wilbur and Orval reshaped mans future... 
This picture shows La-Poo and I standing on the mark that saw Orval Wright complete the first ever flight on December 17th 1903. Annmarie shot the picture from the launch mark. 
Annmarie poses for a 1903 photographer who momentarily is distracted from recording history. In the background is the Wright brothers memorial and hill that overlooks Kitty Hawk.
After an hour or two with the history of flight we headed off to Virginia Beach to see how we felt about it compared to all the other spots we have seen over the past three weeks. I don't know what it is about Virginia, but there is something special about the place. I was convinced that I would feel differently about Virginia after seeing places like Hilton Head and Nags Head. But this place is really amazing... Virginia Beach still takes the Cake. 
Our plan was to get to Richmond Virginia and do a few historic battle fields and possibly get to Williamsburg. But for some reason I made my first navigational error. Funny how one can travel over 3000 miles before getting it wrong... but long story short is I took the Chesapeake Bay bridge instead of going up the Chesapeake bay.... for anyone familiar with this part of the world... the Chesapeake Bay bridge is 20 miles long... over water with the exception of two tunnels which disappear into the ocean and then reappear a mile or so later. Once your on the bridge your committed... 20 miles later your on the others side of the Chesapeake and heading towards Maryland. 
(Light at the end of the tunnel - Annmarie very relieved to be out from under the sea) So as I was saying, we were headed to Maryland... the trip from the bridge to where we are now - Salisbury, Maryland is no where near Richmond. The road trip to get here was very pretty. Red roofed farm homes, small towns, tree lined roads and all in all very calender picture perfect. We got to our hotel after dark so there isn't much I can say about Salisbury. Tomorrow we will head up to Washington and just see how the day plays out from there.
No comments:
Post a Comment