Road Trip

Wes and I left Heidi and Sam's house (after Mayci's baptism) and drove to

the Outer Banks.

Heading East from Sanford to Nag's Head, North Carolina.

We saw lots of picked Cotton fields.

Old plantation homes.

Swamps with a sticky "tar look" (N.C. is the Tar State)
and the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterways.

Crossing the Alligator River to get to Roanoke Island we had to
wait a long time for the drawbridge.



crossing the Croatan Sound

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.

It was closed and too dark to visit but these are the Elizabethan Gardens.

We stopped for dinner in Manteo, North Carolina and had
Hatteras style Clam Chowder.  YUM!

The view of the Atlantic Ocean from our hotel room. 
Top floor with a balcony overlooking the beach!

In the morning we walked along the beach looking for treasures.

Jeanette's Pier right by our hotel.

 

a windmill in Manteo!

We returned in the morning to the site of The Lost Colony!

 

I bought a green glass coaster for our curio cabinet.

The Lost Colony and part of the Underground Railroad Network.



In 1585,
117 men, women and children sailed from Plymouth, England,
 in an attempt to settle on Roanoke Island.  They vanished just 2 years later. 
The only clue left behind was the word CROATOAN carved in a tree.
This is The Lost Colony site. I have wanted to see this place since I was in 4th grade!

A repo 16th century ship in Manteo Harbor.
The Elizabeth II

We drove North from our hotel along the Atlantic Coast of the Outer Banks
to The Wright Brothers National Memorial
in Kitty Hawk.

The place was being remodeled and under construction.

Kill Devil Hills

 

 

A sculpture recreates the historic 1903 flight.

 

"12 seconds that changed the world"

 

Stopped to buy lunch and saw boiled peanuts for sale.

We crossed into Virginia in a light rain.

 

Virginia Beach, Virginia

a $13.00 toll

A bridge then a tunnel, then a bridge then a tunnel.....multiple times.
We crossed the Chesapeake Bay.

Extremely foggy!

Another bridge to get to Chincoteague Island.

We drove around both islands looking for the wild horses.

It was too wet and rainy and we couldn't find the horses.

We found wild horses in a magazine.

We left Chincoteague and Assateague Islands behind and drove into Maryland.

 

and then through the middle of Delaware.
First time Wes and I have been to Delaware together!
It was getting late, raining and dark and lots of traffic as we crossed into
New Jersey for the night.

 

We ate dinner at a Cracker Barrel in New Jersey and stayed
the night in a Comfort Inn.  First time for Wes in New Jersey!

 

Wes and Laurie have now been to ALL 50 states in the United States together!