Outer Banks

The first weekend in August, I took a drive down to North Carolina's Outer Banks. Driving down Friday, I swung through Washington D.C. to see a property I asset manage, the Mall at Prince Georges, and to visit with my Aunt and Uncle. I brought my bike with designs to ride through a wildlife refuge near Norfolk, but notorious traffic south of Washington delayed that ride until Sunday.

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Staying the night outside Norfolk, I had a short drive Saturday morning to reach the Outer Banks. During the day I visited a state park with the highest Sand Dunes on the Atlantic Coast, Jockey Ridge; the Wright Bros. National Mememorial; the site of England failed Sixteenth Century colonization attempt, Fort Raleigh; and the adjacent Elizabethan Gardens. However Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was the primary attraction for the day, and the main reason I took the trip the Outer Banks.

On Sunday, I managed to squeeze in a few stops on the long drive back to Philadelphia including an antebellum slave plantation, the Dismal Swamp bike ride postponed from Friday and a pair of lighthouses at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.

Jockey Ridge State Park.



Wright Bros. National Memorial

The boulder on the left marks the site of the first flights take off; the first marble marker to its right marks the site of the first landing.


Cape Hatteras Lighthouse




Another picture of the lighthouse. Oh, wait...no, that's my cookie jar. Can you see any resemblance?




Me at the top of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.