Captain’s Blog
Outer Banks
We awoke this morning to another beautiful, sunny day in the low 70’s. Everyone that has been in the area for any length of time told us the weather here last week was brutal with the rain, wind and flooding. We had been watching the weather and are glad we stayed in Richmond for a few days before venturing down here.
Ron was on-line last evening and found an Art Gallery for us to visit in Nag’s Head. But first Jewel needed her daily walk. Oh Boy, another traumatic event for her despite being carried onto the road. Those little prickly beasts are blowing all over the place and she was covered again. Ronnie brought them in on his shoes and now we are pulling them off the rugs and Jewel.
Our neighbor has three little dogs and they were limping around too. Not very hospitable terrain and definitely not the place to walk barefoot. We usually walk barefoot in the MH but not here. We have had too many yelps from Ronnie and I stepping on the spiny creatures.
We drove into town and stopped to check out the Kite Store. Ronnie had aspirations of buying a kite but that didn’t happen. Mr. Frugal couldn’t bring himself to purchase a kite for the prices they were asking, especially since the one he really liked was $189.00. We left the store empty handed and Ronnie did not “go fly a kite” despite my many requests that he do so.
He spotted an ice-cream store so of course we had to stop. The owner of the store was more then happy to tell us her life story, all about her kids, business and anything else that she thought we should hear. Everyone is very friendly and more then happy to tell you all about themselves. We asked her about the art museum and she told us that her son took art and was so good she was amazed. She has his art hanging in her living room and she knows the artist and his art gallery well so she directed us to the “Yellow House Art Gallery” down the road.
We toured the art gallery and were very impressed with the eight rooms of art including original paintings of art dating back 4 centuries to those of local artisans. The woman at the gallery was very talkative and also gave us a brief synopsis of her life. I did purchase a Cape Hatteras lighthouse watercolor to add to my collection of lighthouse paintings.
Back at the CG we had dinner and ventured back out to the beach via the dunes. You can drive your 4-wheel vehicle on the beach and there were many parked along the shoreline. We stopped and talked to a few of the fisherman –all with life stories to share.
We feel so fortunate to be able to be here and the trip has been especially good for Ronnie. He is getting some sun and has a tan. Looking more like himself every day.
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