6/20
Our trip to
Gettysburg was in driving rain, terrible thunder, and winding mountain
roads. It took forever. The times we logged mean nothing.
Granite Hill Campground is very nice and dry considering the rain.
6/21
We went to the
National Tower, Wax Museum, took an auto tour, an Amish Irish shop, and
the visitor's center. Had a great time. We stopped for lunch
at Friendly's.
6/22
Went to Hershey.
Did the trolley tour through town, the zoo, and Chocolate World.
Had a great time! Well worth doing. It is a little over an
hour out of Gettysburg.
6/23
Drive to the Outer
Banks.
6/24
A beautiful sunny
day. Berger and I took a long walk in the morning and then I went
for a ride into town (Kitty Hawk). We then hit the beach ... four
hours ... and came back a nice cherry red. Very red! While
cooking out the seagulls were observed to have learned how to steal
right off the hot grill!!! Flew some kites. We had a
magnificent lightning storm at about 2 AM. It rained and rained.
6/25
A long walk on the
beach. Found two very nice crab shells. We took a ride to
see the NC Aquarium and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. We
flew kites. matt and Mom went swimming while Meg and I tried to
find a shipwreck.
6/26
A cooler, windy
day. My morning walk was a disaster. Fezziwig got
sandblasted and my sunburn
itched so bad I thought I would tear my skin off. It was horrific!
A lazy day.
Didn't do much. The kids swam. I slept and played with
kites.
We stopped at the
real estate agent to check out houses to maybe move there.
6/27
Running out of
time!
(Matt and Mom) and
(Meg and I) took rides over the Wright Memorial/Jockey Ridge area in a
1941 Curtis biplane. It was NEAT! We then visited lots of
gift shops and took a ferry to Okracoke Island. The island was
nothing to speak of but we saw jellyfish and had a nice boat ride.
We stopped to eat at the Soundside Restaurant. The help was awful
but the food was great.
6/28
We did the Hatteras
light. Mom was very pleased she could make it up. We had
breakfast in Frisco and did enough gift shopping to make Matt hopping
mad. We came back to the ocean and I lost a line climber (boo hoo)
and had to go back to Kitty Hawk Kites to get another one. A swim
in the pool rounded off our last day.
6/29
We had long delays
on the Outer Banks and interstate roads. The muffler pipe to
header flange came off on the right side but otherwise it was a good
trip.