We got up relatively early after a good nights sleep, wanting to get an early start on our trip to Kitty Hawk. We were gone by 09:30, travelling in two vehicles.
We were thinking that it was gonna be a four-hour trip, but it took us six hours... this is the way things go, of course.
Lynn had made reservations for Tuesday night, but she and Dan asked us if we wanted to stay another night, since the trip took so much longer than we expected. Of course we did! However, they were concerned about my drug supply... I'd only brought enough for one night, naturally. Luckily, I don't take anything so critical that I couldn't half the dose and get by without ill effects.
So we drove on up to the "cabin", a four-bedroom beach house on Nags Head. We unloaded the cars and I took Karen out for her first real look at the Atlantic ocean... she's seen it from Baltimore when we were there years ago, but that's nothing like seeing it from a beach. In fact, it'd been twenty or twenty-five years since I'd seen an Atlantic beach.
And the Atlantic was being very good to us... the surf was higher than normal, and very impressive for this Kansas couple. However, it was cloudy and coolish... we were hoping for some sun the next day.
After an hour or so of romping on the beach with Sam, everyone was hungry, and Lynn picked out a resturant from the travel guide... Pinguin Point, I think it was. Excellent food, nice view. We stopped by a store on the way back to the cabin to get coffee and other needed supplies.
Karen and I spent a half-hour in the dark watching the waves roll in from the top of the steps leading to the beach.
After we went in, Dan and Lynn were ready to go to sleep, so Karen and I made a pot o' coffee and sat on the back deck and watched (and listened to) the ocean for another hour or so.
When we went to bed, we left the window part-way up, so we could hear the surf. Better'n a noise machine.