North Carolina
Blog Posts from North Carolina
Photos from Western North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Hiking to the highest peak- Clingmans Dome
- Very scenic and cloudy trail
- Back on the Appalachian trail
- No view at the top
- Walking back down the paved trail
- Better views at a lower elevation
- Driving the blue ridge parkway
- Highest point on the road
- This road is operated by the national park service
- Money shot
- Another southern style dinner in Asheville
- Working at UNCA
- That’s University of North Carolina Asheville
- Back on the Blue Ridge Parkway
- Hiking up the craggy pinnacle
- Nice view
- A little hazy but that’s okay
- Cool tree on the trail
- Highest mountain east of the Mississippi river
- Another overlook on the blue ridge parkway
- Walking to the Linn Cove Viaduct
- Cool
- Nice trail in the thick spring foliage
- Found it, can’t wait to drive over this
- Quite the engineering marvel
Photos from the Outer Banks
- Bridge to the outer banks
- Wright brothers museum
- Site of the first flight
- The first four flight distances marked by stones
- Walking up the hill in the cold wind
- Nice view, now back to the warm car please
- Jockey’s Ridge State Park
- Really large and sandy dunes here
- Looks like a desert
- Certainly one of the more unique trails we have done
- The sand was really nice here, soft and fluffy
- Too bad it was soo cold
- So pristine, where is the ocean?
- The photo behind the photo
- On to Roanoke island, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
- Goofing around on the Lost Colony theater stage
- My new favorite lighthouse
- Walking through the marshes
- A beaver?
- Nice natural area
- Alright moving on, still cold out
- This was at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
- So many birds!
- More Saw lots of swans, geese, and ducks
- This area looks so nice for them
- Funky tree canopy over the boardwalk
- Driving the outer banks scenic byway
- Woah sunset awesome sunset alert
- Looking good
- Why do we keep seeing sunsets over water from the east coast?
- Money shot
- We’re sleeping here
- Sunrise time
- Glad I got up for it
- Had the whole beach to myself
- Another day, another lighthouse
- Or is it a light station?
- Cool sea museum at the lighthouse, free with our national park pass
- We could see this lighthouse flashing from a distance last night when we went to bed
- Tight fit on the ferry
- Great view with our front row seat
- A rival ferry! Prepare to board!
- Had to watch out for sand on the road
- #rd lighthouse on the Outer Banks
- Not our favorite, it was short and stubby
- What are you looking at?
- Funky clam shells or something down there
- Here comes our ferry
- Front (or back?) row again
- Woah warm enough for no jacket!
- Dolphin sighting
- Nice relaxing ferry ride with a view
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Days Traveling: 365
Miles Driven: 34500
Average MPG: 37.6
States Visited: 48
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