Outer Banks

Couple of weeks back a friend from college who lives in Chicago was here in North Carolina. I hadn't seen him in almost 2 years. He was here for the weekend and wanted to see some places around. As the joke goes here in this part for NC, this place is 3 hours from the beach and 4 hours from the Smokey mountains and nothing happening in between. So we went on a sight-seeing trip to Outer Banks which is on the Atlantic coast.

Outer Banks is cool place to drive through and its almost unique. Its a chain of barrier Islands. Its home to few attractions such as Hatteras light house and Kitty Hawk (where Wright Bother's first flight took place). If you have a 4-Wheel drive vehicle you can actually drive on beach which are many many miles long.

Driving through rural Eastern NC, driving on the beach, ferry rides, Hatteras lighthouse, Sea food and Sand-dunes are usually highlights of such a trip. I have done this before and its not bad. But then when you have 2 years of catching up to do with a friend, driving snywhere wouldn't matter. Here are some pictures from the trip.

Hatteras Light house. Almost a Postcard. A State icon of North Carolina.












Woo Hoo! rural area. Screw you Bangalore!












Irrigation. The real thing, not the golf course thing. Again, screw you Bangalore.












Mannina Maga Deve Gowda's irrigation plan in action...just kidding!












A rural intersection.












while driving on the beach.













You see our SUV's tire tracks? I am telling you one last time. You can actually drive on the beach for miles on end.