Road Trip!
As soon as I picked up my cousin Mar from the Raleigh/Durham airport, we set off on our cross country journey. Equipped with the 2006 National Parks Pass, we planned to visit as many National Parks, Monuments, and Seashores as we could along the way. Our first stop was the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina. The Outer Banks is a collective term referring to the towns that are located on a thin stretch of barrier islands that protect North Carolina's coast from the Atlantic Ocean. To get to the Outer Banks from Raleigh, we took Highway 64 heading East driving past farmland, pine forests, swamps, and marshlands. North Carolina has some of the best paved roads...smooth...which made the drive enjoyable.
