James and Kristin Whitt’s Corner

We’re back from the Outer Banks

July 28, 2008 on 1:46 am | In General | | By: James

Well, this is a little late, but we are back from our first vacation in 4 years. We headed down to the Outer Banks with family and spent a week relaxing. My parents had rented a six bedroom house on the sound side that included a pool. It was a really awesome house. We were probably 3 feet away from the shores of the sound. It was an easy walk to the beach also.

We have taken tons of pictures and put them in our photo gallery already. It was a pretty nice place. Great for lots of relaxation and not too much going on. It didn’t have a night life, which was fine with me. I just wanted to enjoy laying around in the sun, water, and sand.

I’m trying to remember some things that happened.  On the first day, Kristin, my parents, Julie, and I showed up about 2 - 3 hours before we could get in.  We ended up leaving the Jeep at the house and driving around in my Mom’s tracker.  We found a sign that said Beech Access 4×4, so we took the tracker out.  The first time, we had no problems, but the second time we got stuck waiting in a line to get off where someone at the beginning got stuck.  After digging out the tires, putting burned wood under them for traction, and letting some air out of the tires, we finally made it off the beach though.

We also stopped at Hadaras Light house were Kristin wanted to go to the top.  After going straight up without stopping (we were only 2 out of 4 people that were able to do that), it was nice and windy to cool us off.  We also got some great pictures, so check the photo gallery for those.