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My wife spent like 3 hours on the beach with Bennett today, looking for seaells. As I approached her, she came running up to me looking like what you see in the photo 😂. She was so dang excited to find a fully intact conch shell in the water, and got soaked going in after it.

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In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

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My wife spent like 3 hours on the beach with Bennett today, looking for seaells. As I approached her, she came running up to me looking like what you see in the photo 😂. She was so dang excited to find a fully intact conch shell in the water, and got soaked going in after it.

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Alex had some work meetings today so we decided to go to the beach during low tide and do some shelling today and man am I happy we did! This is the first time I have had a beach with shells and things to hunt for, so I intended to seek out sand dollars and normal shells, but today's haul was out of this world! I can't believe I got a fully intact conch shell! Ben is super jealous, but I freaking earned that thing, so it is mine, buddy. Ben now wants to go back like everyday until he gets ones too 😂 Maybe not everyday, but we will keep trying! Dev is asleep, Ben is showered, I'm exhausted, but it was a delightful day!

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Alex had some work meetings today so we decided to go to the beach during low tide and do some shelling today and man am I happy we did! This is the first time I have had a beach with shells and things to hunt for, so I intended to seek out sand dollars and normal shells, but today's haul was out of this world! I can't believe I got a fully intact conch shell! Ben is super jealous, but I freaking earned that thing, so it is mine, buddy. Ben now wants to go back like everyday until he gets ones too 😂 Maybe not everyday, but we will keep trying! Dev is asleep, Ben is showered, I'm exhausted, but it was a delightful day!

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Today was another good day! We spent half the day roaming around Roanoke Island and the town of Manteo. It's amazing how much a little seaside island area like this can capture the vibes of so many different places we have traveled to. We are absolutely adoring our time in the OBX and will definitely come back again. Today we hit up the Aquarium, which is one of our favorite ones we have visited, they are inexpensive for what they offer and even have special days where you can add on behind the scenes opportunities to your tickets! We also visited Fort Raleigh briefly, grabbed some ice cream at Frosties and played at the park before calling it a day!

Today was another good day! We spent half the day roaming around Roanoke Island and the town of Manteo. It's amazing how much a little seaside island area like this can capture the vibes of so many different places we have traveled to. We are absolutely adoring our time in the OBX and will definitely come back again. Today we hit up the Aquarium, which is one of our favorite ones we have visited, they are inexpensive for what they offer and even have special days where you can add on behind the scenes opportunities to your tickets! We also visited Fort Raleigh briefly, grabbed some ice cream at Frosties and played at the park before calling it a day!

A local ice cream shop in Roanoke sold me an ice cream cone with Cheez Its sprinkled on-top. It was too weird to not try. Salty + sweet almost always works, and this is no exception.

A local ice cream shop in Roanoke sold me an ice cream cone with Cheez Its sprinkled on-top. It was too weird to not try. Salty + sweet almost always works, and this is no exception.

Woke up this morning to a lot of wind outside. Turns out, a tiny sand bar off the coast of North Carolina is quite windy this time of year. Yet another moment where this area reminds me of our visit to Elephant Butte, New Mexico, even though it is way on the other end of the country.

<a href="https://casualweirdness.life/articles/travelogue/elephant-butte-new-mexico">https://casualweirdness.life/articles/travelogue/elephant-butte-new-mexico</a>

Woke up this morning to a lot of wind outside. Turns out, a tiny sand bar off the coast of North Carolina is quite windy this time of year. Yet another moment where this area reminds me of our visit to Elephant Butte, New Mexico, even though it is way on the other end of the country.

<a href="https://casualweirdness.life/articles/travelogue/elephant-butte-new-mexico">https://casualweirdness.life/articles/travelogue/elephant-butte-new-mexico</a>

I think my favorite thing about OBX is that it's all one road lol. Directions are super easy, and I'm directionally challenged 😅

I think my favorite thing about OBX is that it's all one road lol. Directions are super easy, and I'm directionally challenged 😅

Today was a really good day. Travel days are often exhausting and deflating in many ways, but we were really looking forward to a change of scenery, we had an audiobook all about the history of the area we were driving to, and we were greeted with exactly the setting we hoped and needed for a little refresh and a change of pace. When I was looking through pics this song was in my mind, so I thought I would try my hands at another reel. From the OBX to wherever you are, have the best day available to you!

Today was a really good day. Travel days are often exhausting and deflating in many ways, but we were really looking forward to a change of scenery, we had an audiobook all about the history of the area we were driving to, and we were greeted with exactly the setting we hoped and needed for a little refresh and a change of pace. When I was looking through pics this song was in my mind, so I thought I would try my hands at another reel. From the OBX to wherever you are, have the best day available to you!

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We are already so much more comfortable in this spot than the last one. Oh, man. I was hoping our Virginia beach stay would have been more fun, but this stay down on the outer banks is making up for it. So glad we get to be here for the next two weeks. We are steps away from the ocean on either side of us and by Tuesday temps are going to be in the 60s, which will be the warmest we have had in a few weeks now. We decided once we got settled in that we would go out and grab some dinner and we found an awesome spot with excellent food and a server who was in love with Devin 😂 By the power of his cutes he got an entire container of shrimp brought out just for him! Back in for the evening now with MANY MANY adventures to come soon!

We have made it to the outer banks, where for the next two weeks we will call home. The campsite takes up about 2/3rds of the total width of the island where we're parked(!)

There's so, so much history in this region of the US, and I'm so excited to dig in!

We have made it to the outer banks, where for the next two weeks we will call home. The campsite takes up about 2/3rds of the total width of the island where we're parked(!)

There's so, so much history in this region of the US, and I'm so excited to dig in!

Today's a travel day. We're leaving Virginia Beach and going south again for a bit. We discovered that our seasonal in Vermont wasn't going to be available for another month so we decided to buy some time on the outer banks 😁.

Today's a travel day. We're leaving Virginia Beach and going south again for a bit. We discovered that our seasonal in Vermont wasn't going to be available for another month so we decided to buy some time on the outer banks 😁.