Five Days On the Outer Banks — Part VI
On our forth day the weather continued to be the same. But, since we had planed on taking Jill and Greg to the Norfolk airport, weather was not an issue. On the way back we made a few stops to check out the local tourist shops designed to get people like us to pay high prices for cheap junk. We did stop at a vineyard, for a little wine tasting and conversation with one of the owners – of course we bought some local wine. (Okay, so the main reason I bought a bottle of “Wild Pony White” was the label design taken from a photo of ponies on the shore. The image taken by the wine maker’s wife was black & white, then using Photoshop to make one of the ponies’ white. So, it doesn’t take much to impress me!) As usual, having an opportunity to talk to some local people resulted in our obtaining better information than and of the free tourist flyers, magazines, etc., some of which did help us in determining what we would do before leaving the area.
Alone the way back to Tags Head, I bought a very interesting anthology entitled, “An Outer Banks Reader,” edited by David Stick, The book covers four and a half centuries of accounts that help one better understand why some people would want to spend their lives on the Outer Banks. This book truly became my reader during some of the remaining weather bound time housed on the beach. In Stick’s words:
“The reader should understand that life on the Outer Banks isn’t always idyllic, as Orville Wright made clear in a 1901 letter fro Kitty Hawk to his sister back home in Dayton, Ohio, complaining that the mosquitoes had chewed clear through his underwear and socks, raising lumps all over his body ‘like hen’s eggs.’ In another letter, however, he told her the sunsets at Kitty Hawk were ‘the prettiest I have ever seen,’ and he waxed poetic about the multicolored clouds.”
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