Back from the coast

[Pennyrick]

As I posted earlier we had some computer and some tire problems on our trip to the coast but we replaced the bad tire and babied the RT's along, waiting out the dreaded 'check engine' and the related periodic limp mode.

We are now home safely and have a date with the dealer set up to find out what was happening under the tupperware of my wife's Spyder.

Because Denman likes photos I will post a few of the awful shots I managed to take on the trip.

First up here is a shot on the road up toward Morganton, North Carolina on our first day.

 

[Pennyrick]

Arrived at Nag's Head

We stayed on the ocean at Nag's Head, NC. Here are two beach shots. One is a lonely girl in a bikini who was the only person on the beach until I could get down to the water.

The other is just a sweeping shot of the beach from our seventh floor hotel room.

Water was very warm.

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks! :thumbup:
It's always nice to see the places, that other folks get to ride! :clap: :2thumbs:

 

[ARtraveler]

Glad to hear that you made it back safely. Nice pictures too! :yes:

 

[Pennyrick]

Crazy Kite people

The hotel we stayed in was the host for the International Kite Association's annual get together. These kite enthusiasts come from all over the world once a year to meet and have kit competitions and show off their kites and abilities.

One guy came all the way from England and brought about a dozen different kits with him.

Here are some kites flying at the Saturday competition and here is another shot of a guy buzzing our balcony with his kite from down on the beach. He came so close one time I almost dropped my phone and that would have been seven stories down.

 

[Pennyrick]

The long way home

Rather than leave Cape Hatteras by coming back across the bridge to the mainland we decided to travel to the tip of the island and take the ferry across. The ferrys are run by the State of North Carolina and are part of the highway system.

We traveled south on route 12 in the Federal Hatteras Seashore for about seventy miles and then took a one hour ferry ride across to the next island as there is no bridge. This is a no charge ferry loaded on a first come-first served basis.

The second ferry leaves from the tip of the Cape across to the mainland. There are two different routes to travel. We took the two and a half hour run from Oracoke to Cedar Island. It began to warm up on the second trip and was a pretty nice ride. The first one was taken in the early morning and it was 45 degrees on the water with a heavy wind. Here is a video taken on that ferry and as you can see my wife is bundled up against the cold. Everyone else was inside their vehicle.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: You guys sure were packed-tight on that Ferry...
How smooth was the passage?
How long did it take?

 

[Noral]

We stayed on the ocean at Nag's Head, NC. Here are two beach shots. One is a lonely girl in a bikini who was the only person on the beach until I could get down to the water.

The other is just a sweeping shot of the beach from our seventh floor hotel room.

Water was very warm.

Dang you need a telephoto lens ! Great pictures all of them.

 

[LEEB]

Loved your videos. Thanks for sharing!! We love vacationing at the Outer Banks!

 

[Pennyrick]

:shocked: You guys sure were packed-tight on that Ferry...
How smooth was the passage?
How long did it take?

Bob.

The first ferry was an hour long ride and we just pulled straight on like the rest of the traffic. The water had white caps and the wind was very strong at maybe 25-30 mph. That ride was no charge as it is just a continuation of the highway. In fact the ferry had a highway 12 marker on it.

The second ferry over to the mainland was two and a half hours and cost us $15 for each Spyder. We had to measure under 20 feet from tip to tail to get aboard and I figured I would just angle one of the trailers if we didn't fit. As it turned out they told us to go to the front of the ferry waiting line (even though we had reservations, that pissed some people off who had been waiting some time).

They put our Spyders side by side right up under the Captain's stairwell at the front of the boat. (it's a good thing we both can back up our trailers). Then they began loading what they said was fully booked ferry. We had two huge motorhomes pulling cars, five pick ups pulling fishing boats and a whole bunch of cars. The last car aboard was a couple from Florida who had reservations but because of the big stuff it appeared they would have to miss it until the next day.

The managed to get up the ramp and turned their Lincoln SUV sideways so that the ramp could be closed up.

it was a great ride. The couple from Florida had some ready-made cocktails on board and that made it even better.