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Places I’ve Read About (and Haven’t Been, Yet) Pt. 2
The first episode, a near miss. High on the list of places to visit during a 2021 road trip, old man weather denied my planned exploration of the Carolina Outer Banks. Torrential rains altered my course. Too soggy for camping. Heavy rains and beach walks just don’t mix very well.
On the same adventure, another near miss. This time it wasn’t the elements prohibiting a visit to the most eastern point in the United States. As a West Coast native, it feels so exotic to travel to the extremities of the country. I’d been to Key West, the most southern (not counting Hawai’i). The southwestern corner, San Diego, check. Not quite the northwestern most point in Washington state, that one is still on the list too. Close, next visit the Pacific Northwest, it’s a must.
The trip to the East Coast was a long ramble across the dry southwest, transited the republic of Texas and across the deep south, dipped into Florida, then a left turn north. The next two weeks included stays in Washington D.C. and New York City via Philadelphia and rural New Jersey. Beyond, in New England, the one location with a bull’s eye, West Quoddy Head Lighthouse. A funny name for the most easterly location in the country. Turns out, there is an East Quoddy Head. It too has a lighthouse. It is on an island belonging to Canada.
