We are now at the half way point of our road trip having reached the furthest Eastern point in the USA.  We are on the Outer Banks, a very long (approx 200 miles), very narrow string of barrier islands that run along the North Carolina Coast.  The width of the islands vary from approximately 5 miles to about 50 yards depending upon whether there has been a recent hurricane.  The coast is particularly prone to storms,  and a series of lighthouses was built along the coast in the 1800s, three of which we're showing below.  There's a lot of history here.  We are staying with an old friend in Kill Devil Hills, about a quarter mile from Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers flew the first motorized air plane and within a few miles from Blackbeard's home base and where the first person of English descent, Virginia Dare, was born.

Currituck Beach Lighthouse (1875)

Ocracoke Lighthouse (1823)

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (1870)

BJ and our hostess, Ann Pierce, on the Beach at Hatteras Island

Other less well behaved tourists