Trading South Carolina for North Carolina

Day 30:
Today my mom went to the famous Charleston Marketplace and saw all the neat stuff there. There were woven pottery made by the Gullah people (descendants of slaves) who still live there. We hit the road and went to Wilmington, NC. We had a nice lunch at a place called "The Eat Spot", but had to leave before the free riverside concert of Satisfaction, a Rolling Stones ripoff. We left Wilmington hoping to make it to the Outer Banks of North Carolina but found out that everyone else had the same idea. We spent almost 2 hours trying to find a hotel but there was no availability. My parents are not big on planning ahead and we found out that this is the last weekend for people in SC and NC before school starts on Monday (kinda like our Labor Day weekend) which is why every place was booked. We decided to stay in Washington, NC (established in 1775 and the first place in America named for George Washington) and leave for the Outer Banks tomorrow morning. We DID get a condo for tomorrow night in Cape Hatteras. We took the back roads to get to Washington and drove on a 2 lane road through Tobacco County and saw really poor mobile neighborhoods and also really nice homes and tons of Tobacco fields which look like big brown leaves. In Washington there was a nice Dairy Queen...that we couldn't find. It was the smallest joint that was in a strip mall next to a Piggly Wiggly, which would only take some good pair of eyes (mine) to find. As we ate our blizzards and ice cream, we received word a friend of ours has left PA to go to California to finish his last year of college today. We wanted to make a shout-out to you Ben: Good luck and we'll see you around Christmas (Boo Phillies!!) Class of 2011!!!!!