World Travellers

Our family lives on the west coast. Every year we take a couple of weeks for our family vacation. We’ve been to Hawaii a couple of times and loved it. We’ve gone to several resorts in California and enjoyed them all. Until last year, though, we had never tried anyplace further east than Colorado. We decided to do something different for a change.

My wife and I spent quite a bit of time looking at travel destinations on the east coast. Of course, there were the obvious choices like New York and Florida. We wanted a beach resort, so New York was out. We already knew so much about Florida that it didn’t appeal to us at the time. Then my wife stumbled across a website that had Outer Banks Vacation Rentals.

I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what the Outer Banks were or where they were located. Just in case you’re equally uninformed, they are located in North Carolina. We ended up deciding to take a chance. The photographs made the Atlantic seaboard on the coast of North Carolina look stunning and unlike anyplace we’d ever stayed before.

Then it was just a matter of choosing where to stay. We finally opted for a condo on Emerald Isle. It had a stunning ocean view and from the pictures looked like the owner had spared no expense in their choice of interior designs.

The pictures didn’t lie. If anything, they didn’t do the place justice! The condo was amazing, as were the Outer Banks. We were a little embarrassed, though. We thought we had stumbled across a little known beach resort, but found out when we got there that the Outer Banks are one of the most popular vacation destinations in America!