Ron & I walked up the hill to the retreat before breakfast.
After breakfast we set off for the 6 hour drive to Nags Head on the Outer Banks (OBX) in North Carolina. We passed very different countryside, some very depressed areas with shanty houses but as we got closer it changed again. We'd had beautiful weather but tropical rainstorm Bonnie had hit the Carolina coast and we struck rain as we drove towards the OBX area. The houses in this area are raised off the ground and all wooden and give the place a very distinctive seaside feel. It was raining constantly when we arrived and we couldn't go out exploring so we just had dinner and went to bed early as it had been a long day in the car.
A shot of typical houses here in the mist.Read more