Outer Banks Vacation

I guess it is time to get our thoughts and pictures together about our vacation to the North Carolina Outer Banks in April of this year. The posts may be short since we are doing most of this from memory and our memories are not that good anymore. So here goes.


OUTER BANKS
KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINA VACATION
APRIL 9-16, 2010

Day 1: Saturday April 9, 2010

A long drive was ahead of us so we got up around 5 AM and got ready. The car had been packed the night before so we only had to put a few things in the car. We finally got on the road around 6 AM.

The weather was perfect for driving. It was pretty warm and a bright and sunny day. There was very little traffic until we got about 30 miles out of Norfolk, Virginia. Although it was a little heavier, we were able to maintain the speed limit. We never saw a signal wreck the whole distance--I think a first for us for a trip this long.

The drive through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina was a beautiful drive. The trees had a full coat of leaves and everything was so green. The flowering shrubbery and trees were also in bloom. We saw many trees with pink flowers, some that looked like dogwood covered in white flowers, and miles of tall trees covered with wisteria in full bloom. Linda was a little envious--she has planted some wisteria vines and they still have not bloomed.

Arrived in Kitty Hawk and tried to use Expedia’s directions to get to the time share. The directions were wrong. Linda finally looked at the information we had received and used their directions and we finally got to the time share. This only caused a short delay. Expedia had us turn left about 1 mile from where we should have turned right.

We finally got checked in around 7 PM and went to our quarters. We have a two bedroom, two bath unit. We are in a unit with two time shares and we have the upstairs unit. It has all the comforts of home and is very clean.