We’re off on vacation! From the marina in Solomons, MD to Williamsburg, VA is a 3 hour road trip. All along the road were historical points of interest signs. I had to think about how this area was dotted with farms and towns. People were living their lives and over the first 400 years since Columbus discovered this new land most significant events in United States history happened within a few hundred miles here on the East Coast. That accounts for dozens or hundreds of such points of interest. In this location a scuffle to apprehend a criminal resulted in law enforcement killing him while he resisted arrest. While this happens all over the world every day, on April 26, 1865 it was John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin.
We were pleasantly surprised at the end of our road trip to be greeted by this lovely apartment. Courtesy of the Aanonson family’s timeshare getaway perks, we rented this spacious, modern, comfortable two bedroom villa for a week at a rate that we could have easily been the daily rate.
The villa has two bedrooms with huge bathrooms.
The girls are enjoying the makeup counter.
Enough of this pampering in the villa, lets go on another road trip. Our first stop is two and a quarter hours down the road to Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers made their historic first flight. After that another one and a quarter hours to Cape Hatteras.
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This is the site where 110 years ago the Wright brothers made their historic first flight. Throughout the visitors center the walls are lined with pioneers in aviation. One thing they all had in common was that they were the first to do something. While many other people were developing flying machines, Wilbur and Orville had the witnesses, telegrams, and worked hard to maintain their position as the first to fly.
Before the 1930s, when conservation efforts prevented saltwater from washing over this land, the area was barren sand flats. Because of the terrain and prevailing winds the Wright brothers selected this site. On December 17, 1903 Orville and Wilbur took turns with their flying machine. First Orville flew 120 ft., then Wilbur 175 ft., Orville 200 ft., and lastly Wilbur flew 852 ft. in 59 seconds.
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They practiced with kites and gliders developing wing shape and the four forces of flight thrust, lift, drag and weight. Within 66 years these fundamental principals took us to the moon.
Next stop on our road trip is Cape Hatteras. Without cell phone service I followed our track using our iPhone navigation charts. It was a bit scary seeing the boat icon on land. This shoreline boasts hundreds of shipwrecks in its treacherous waters. The combination of shallow water, shifting shoals, strong colliding currents and high winds is a disaster for mariners. In May we passed the cape 30 miles safely off shore and still had a miserable day with confused seas. We’ve been researching and planning our trip south this November and have been advised to stay 10 miles off shore to avoid the current further out and shoals closer in. I’m shaking in my flip flops thinking about the 200 mile/2 day journey from Virginia Beach, VA to Morehead City, NC.
The van was the best way to get in for a closer look.
We arrived after hours so all the visitor centers and the lighthouse were closed. The Cape Hatteras light house and four of it’s buddies have guarded the outer banks for more than 200 years.
Roy is always on the lookout for critters. Here a poor lizard was stuck in wet cement. A modern day fossil I suppose.
The outer banks is a long strip of low land, dunes, scrub bushes and surprising multitude of houses. Most all of them are built several feet above the ground. I don’t want to be anywhere near here when a storm hits.
