Days 40-46 (8/7-8/13) Outer Banks, NC -> HOME! (Lin) Sadly, this is the last entry of our Cross Country Trip Blog. After 46 days on the road, we finally arrived back home in Rhode Island this evening (Saturday)! Phew.
We were lucky to spend a relaxing week in the Outer Banks with my family, something we do every two years. Twenty-four of us were able to make it (my parents, siblings, their spouses, and their kids), but eleven others were not able to be there. It’s so great to have our kids maintain their relationships with their cousins, even though we don’t all live close to each other.
Highlights of the week included: the beach (!), Duck Donuts, Jockey’s Ridge (massive sand dunes) – flying kites and watching the sunset over the bay, lazy afternoons in the pool, group meals, games, morning runs with Eden, late nights chatting, etc. etc. We stayed in Southern Shores, which gave easy access to the cute town of Duck as well as the more commercial drag of Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills.
This morning we left at 6 am to avoid the Saturday morning departure rush. Although we would usually head up the eastern shore of Virginia and the DelMar Peninsula, we wanted to swing through Baltimore to have lunch with Jo’s sister Andi. Traffic was heavy much of the way and then came to a crawl at multiple points around D.C. (a section of road we really despise) and south of Baltimore. It was wonderful to hang with Andi as well as Jo’s dad and his wife, although it was hot in Baltimore (as it seemingly was everywhere on the east coast recently!). We’ve had a lot of hot days on this long trip, but the humidity makes it so much worse.
From Baltimore we followed 95 through the mess that is Wilmington, central Jersey, and NYC. By that time we were late enough that CT was a breeze, thankfully.
And then, amazingly, we were HOME! After almost seven weeks on the road, it is both wonderful and immensely strange to be home again, and not facing the prospect of packing up again soon. Well, almost: Jo and I head to Bermuda for our anniversary later this week! But mostly we will stay put for a while. Until, of course, we move to London late next spring! I guess that will have to be another blog…
Again, thanks for reading and for being on this journey with us!
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