It’s been 10 years since I’ve visited North Carolina, and the last time involved a rather scary night club, a 150-mile ride in a AAA tow truck to VA Beach, the sale of my first car for less than the in-dash CD player, and the long ride home with my friend’s parents.

This past week I went to the Outer Banks with my wife’s side of the family and fortunately the car made it back with us (Naturally, as a true workaholic, my laptop made the trip as well). Unlike some of my brother and sister-in-laws, I’m not 100% beach bum, so I took a day trip to Hatteras Lighthouse, Roanoke Island, and the Wright Brothers Memorial.

The beaches were nice (though not Philippines nice) but I still don’t understand the fanaticism behind the OBX license plates or bumper stickers–maybe I just prefer a faster pace of lifestyle. Duck Donuts, however, did impress me, and I’m wondering when they’ll start franchising north.

Here’s the original location of the Hatteras Lighthouse in contrast to its current spot. I was a little disappointed with how there was no real on-site documentation regarding the engineering involved in moving the entire lighthouse.

I saw about a million of these in the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke.

Looking over the pictures from my trip, I realized I just don’t take/share a lot of pictures of people. The sharing part has to do with my skepticism of cloud computing (I’m too cheap to go pro with Flickr, considering I pay for so much hosting space to begin with and I don’t want to rely too much on Google’s Picasa). I guess I’ll leave it to my sister-in-law, whose pictures can be found here, here, and here.

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