The wild horses.
Cheri on the beach.
Cheri on the balcony. 
The Wright brothers memorial.
Cheri hamming it up.
Pat hamming it up on a replica of the Wright brothers machine.
The rock where the original flying machine left the ground in 1903.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
My friend Cheri was here last weekend from Chicago. Just to get out of the snow. It has been very spring like here.
Cheri and I drove to Cedar Island to catch the ferry to Ocracoke. Just made it. But what fun. We had lunch at Ocracoke then rushed to catch the ferry to Hatterus. But we missed it and had to entertain ourselves for 2 hours till the next ferry. Went back to see the wild ponies which was a disappointment. They are not very wild anymore. There are fences now because the ponies kept getting hit by cars. Guess I would rather have fences.
From Hatterus we were able to drive along the outer banks, all the way to Kill Devil Hills where we had a room at Best Western. This is the off season so we had a beautiful room right on the beach looking out on the Atlantic Ocean for hardly any money. Very nice. The next day we drove to the Wright brothers monument at Kitty Hawk. I got in by buying a senior pass for $10.00. It is good for my life and will get me and anyone with me in to any national park for free. Quite the deal. Couldn't wait to give them my money.
It was well worth seeing the monument and listening to the talk. Learned a lot about the Wright brothers. I could understand why they chose Kitty Hawk. It was very windy the day we were there. We learned that they went there for 3 years before trying out their airplane. They watched birds and experimented with kites. Everyone at the time was trying to start out from on top of a hill. They realized that they needed to start on flat ground. But they did not have wheels on it so they started out going down a single track in the ground. Fun to see it all.
On our way back we missed a turn and almost made it to Raleigh before I realized we were way off track and needed to backtrack. Made for a long day but still a fun day.
For now we will continue to enjoy this wasm, spring like weather.
More adventures to come.
Cheri and I drove to Cedar Island to catch the ferry to Ocracoke. Just made it. But what fun. We had lunch at Ocracoke then rushed to catch the ferry to Hatterus. But we missed it and had to entertain ourselves for 2 hours till the next ferry. Went back to see the wild ponies which was a disappointment. They are not very wild anymore. There are fences now because the ponies kept getting hit by cars. Guess I would rather have fences.
From Hatterus we were able to drive along the outer banks, all the way to Kill Devil Hills where we had a room at Best Western. This is the off season so we had a beautiful room right on the beach looking out on the Atlantic Ocean for hardly any money. Very nice. The next day we drove to the Wright brothers monument at Kitty Hawk. I got in by buying a senior pass for $10.00. It is good for my life and will get me and anyone with me in to any national park for free. Quite the deal. Couldn't wait to give them my money.
It was well worth seeing the monument and listening to the talk. Learned a lot about the Wright brothers. I could understand why they chose Kitty Hawk. It was very windy the day we were there. We learned that they went there for 3 years before trying out their airplane. They watched birds and experimented with kites. Everyone at the time was trying to start out from on top of a hill. They realized that they needed to start on flat ground. But they did not have wheels on it so they started out going down a single track in the ground. Fun to see it all.
On our way back we missed a turn and almost made it to Raleigh before I realized we were way off track and needed to backtrack. Made for a long day but still a fun day.
For now we will continue to enjoy this wasm, spring like weather.
More adventures to come.
Update on the body found floating in our bay. He was a young man, only 20. He went missing just before Christmas and his father was down here trying to help him get away from his drug habit. When he didn't come home his father went around town and put up flyers with his picture on it. We realized that the reason we had not seen the flyer was because we were gone for 2 weeks over the holidays. He was also not missing his legs as I thought. But his legs were hanging straight down so I could not see them. We realized also that our dog was acting weird on the dock for a couple weeks before finding him. She would stop and look under the dock and had to be coaxed to leave. The day before we found him had been windy making us believe that his body may have been caught under there and then came loose in the wind. So sad for his family but we are glad we found his body so they can have some closure. Rest in peace young man.
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