Catch-up: Day 4
The fourth day brought us to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It also took us on the busiest roads up to that point. As the land gets narrower, there are fewer roads and we end up having to share them with all the cars that were going to the Outer Banks for the weekend. This was a Friday too, so the traffic was probably heavier than it would have been on another day. We went through towns named Maple, Aydlett, Grandy, Coinjock, and Harbinger. We all wanted to know what Coinjock was named after. We passed an inmate street cleaning crew near Aydlett. After crossing the 2-mile-long bridge into Kitty Hawk we went to the Visitors’ Center and gathered up pamphlets and brochures among which was the brochure for “The Lost Colony” symphonic drama. The Lost Colony is an outdoor play that is performed in the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site about the first English colony in America. The colony was where the first English child was born in America, Virginia Dare. And Virginia is named after Queen Elizabeth, “The Virgin Queen.” It cought our eyes, Kiki’s especially, and we knew what we were going to do the next day. (See Kiki’s Lost Colony Entry for more info.) After the Visitors’ Center we went to the Kitty Hawk Post Office to pick up the package that our roomate Dan sent to us General Delivery. Everything was there (thanks, Dan!) so we had our new tires and spare tubes. We sat down for a big late lunch at Awful Aruthur’s for some seafood. In a fit of history-making, Kiki decided to eat some bits of seafoot that she’d never eaten before: oysters and crab cakes. It may not sound like much, but this was a milestone for Kiki. I had a great teriaki grilled tuna burger. mmmm. We’ve been eating a lot on this trip and we don’t feel guilty about it either. That’s because we rode 48 miles on Day 4. We camped at Joe and Kay’s campground in Kill Devil Hills, which had its fair share of permanent residents, one of which played Madonna from his car at the late hour of 11:00 pm! In addition to eating a lot, we’re also on an earlier sleep schedule. I’m getting up earlier in the morning than I aver do, normally 6:00 or 6:30. In our first but of bike maintenance, Hillary and I changed our tires. The new ones are great, we have to say.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Seafoot? yech!