What a start to the day! We woke up in time to watch the Sunday Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean from our little room balcony. Seagulls and pelicans and the occasional beachcomber added to the scene. Beautiful.
From there we drove a few miles down the beach and went to the Wright Brothers memorial. There were some highlights there.
We saw the Site of the Flight. 59 seconds that changed travel forever (after 3 other attempts that lasted for just a few seconds each). Well, it changed for everyone except road trippers and cruisers.
There was also a pretty hefty hike involved. Not just the flight path, which was almost 900 feet. We went up Big Kill Devil Hill. That’s really its name. Emphasis on thee we “Big.” It was a doozy. But we made it they also had the most amazing playground. A replica of the plane is there, along with statues of the people who watched the flight. And kids were climbing on the plane. Looked like a lot of fun.
Next we went a little farther down the road. There we found the Outer Banks visitor center. Actually, I just wanted to say I’d been to the town of Kitty Hawk. Its grounds was a massive memorial to all the years of flight from the Wright. Brother’s to the International Space Station.
Next stop was back down southward on the Outer Banks. Had to find none other than … another one of those darlings if Chris’ delight. This time it was the Bodie lighthouse. Couldn’t climb this one, because they had a fire at the visitor center not long ago.
Finally we got to the most famous lighthouse of the bunch - Cape Hatteras lighthouse. Sadly, however, it was in the process of being completely repaired and restored. It was completely surrounded by scaffolding from top to bottom, so you couldn’t go inside to climb it. And layers and layers of paint had been removed to reveal the original brick for the first time since it was built in the 1800’s.
We asked the worker in the site store for recommendations for lunch. We were both pretty hungry. She recommended a lunch spot that had “the best sandwiches, hot or cold - on the whole island.” Really. They had a vote. We gave it a try. Wow! That was a great sandwich. We could only eat half of them, though. More for lunch … or dinner … today.
Then it was on to the grand backtrack. Because we couldn’t work out the details to the ferry system, we had to backtrack the same way we came in the day before. Always tough to see the same scenery twice, but we soldiered through to our next hotel in New Bern.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Father, thanks for being with “our churches” in Galveston and Waco yesterday. Amen.
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