NO TOUCHEY!...ok, touchey.

On my visit to the National Wright Museum and Monument, I formed a great repport with one of the curators. Probably because I was first in line that morning and the last to leave that evening. As I was taking my final pictures at 10 minutes to closing with the other last minute guests, Mr. Jones, the curator, discreetly walked up and told me to come with him. He then asked to take a picture with my camera. Fortunately, I didn't refuse because the next thing he does is hand me a...white...curators...glove...OMGOMGOMG. Next thing he does is unfasten the barrier to the full-sized Wright Flyer exhibits...OMGOMGOMG. I don't remember what happened next, something about trying this lever and moving that lever. FORTUNATELY, The Nice Mr. Jones snapped a photo or I may not have believed it happened!

(This is a raw, untouched up image that will be cleaned when I get home)

ssoooo,

IN YO FACE JEN! YOU LIKE APPLES? HUH? YOU LIKE APPLES?
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?!

And Oh My God, I met a russian exchange student named Irianna and Oh My God typical russian gorgeous. Picture a 5 foot short Maria Sharapova with huggier headlights and Oh My God, there is a change in line-up tonight..

Upgrade!

It has been a fun trip out so far! All the girls have been cute and flirty, which has been high on my good-times-criteria list. Sunday night, I had drinks with a cute college girl who was vacationing with her parents (but without her parents at the bar). Monday, I spent the afternoon with a cute park ranger who takes seasonal jobs all over the country (she is going to call me, if she is transferred to appalachia, for a looong motorcycle ride..and relations).

I am finally settled in for a couple of awesome nights at a Hampton Inn with a private beach. I got here and the cute-cute-damn-cute girl behind the desk took a look in the computer and immediately upgraded my room to a more expensive one with a patio and view of and ocean. I felt like a baller. I guess it is because I have, what I have coined, the "Hampton Hop" over the last few days. I like the consistent experience of a hot breakfast, free internet and familiar rooms. I told Lauren that if I was a hotel critic, she would get all 10s.

I was also wondering on the trip out, who I would accidentally run into. Last year, I took a motorcycle ride to Metropolis IL for the 4th of July. As I was checking in, in walks right behind me my friend, student-worker boss and later co-worker from when I attended college and later worked at APSU. Last Monday night, I get a message from my sister who had no idea we were vacationing 15 miles apart lol.

Anywho, here are just a sampling of pictures to pique your envy.
https://picasaweb.google.com/Reginald.Wooden/20110527KillDevilHills#

It is time.

Time to make like bacon and fly!

Friday AM Route:


Friday PM Route with Overnight Stay at Hampton Inn Dandridge, TN:


Saturday AM Route:


Saturday PM Route with stay at Hampton Inn Selma, NC


Sunday AM Route with stay in Hampton Inn Havelock, NC:
(I soo wanted to stay at the Atlantic Beach Hampton Inn, but it was sold out. I think I was fortunate to find this one 10 miles from the beach on Memorial Day Weekend.)

Monday AM from Havelock, NC to Kill Devil Hills NC via 2 hour, Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry!

Tuesday will be spent with everything the Wright Brothers' offer.
Wednesday will be spent ON A BEACH.
Thursday, June 2nd, Make like a boomerang and fly back. Will stop in Asheville NC to see what all the hub-bub is about bub.

The replacement color code is known as...

"radar attractive red"