Laura, McKenna, and I got back to Midlothian from Caseville, Michigan on August 1st, with just enough time to cut the lawn and do the laundry before we left for the beach vacation with my family at Frisco on Hatteras Island on Sunday, August 4th. Our Sunday beach rental enabled us to avoid the terrible…
Having traveled to Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alberta (Canada), South Dakota, Missouri, and Kentucky, our next destination was North Carolina – the Outer Banks. It’s a rough life that we lead. Step one in preparing to travel once again was cleaning out the car from our last trip, which meant moving McKenna’s car booster…
The Abbott family vacation on Hatteras Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks would be a bit later in the summer in 2017, during the first full week in August. This ended up to be a fortunate bit of timing, since the company building a new bridge to the island managed to severe all three power…
After the rainy day intermission to our vacation, the weather was great for the rest of the week. On Wednesday we returned to Frisco beach, trying to get there at around low tide, since that is the best time for children or uncoordinated adults to go in the ocean. While we waited for the tide…
In mid-July, we went on the annual Abbott beach vacation in the Outer Banks. Since we had a Saturday-to-Saturday rental, and since Saturday traffic is horrific, Laura and I took the other way to the southern Outer Banks, through Manteo. On a normal day, when half the east coast isn’t migrating to the beach like…
Because I come from a family where we competed over everything – even going so far as to compete over who had the biggest french fry at McDonald’s and cheating in this contest by fusing two fries together into a mega frankenfry – it seemed appropriate to have two of the beaches we visited, those…
In preparation for our upcoming trip to Europe, Laura recommended that I get a selfie stick, so that we could take pictures of ourselves without actually having to socialize with people from another country. I decided to test out the selfie stick at the beach. Having a selfie stick doesn’t mean I’m a narcissist, right?…
After a rough late June and early July wher Laura was diagnosed with colitis, Laura was finally out of the hospital and recuperating. While Laura was going to stay at her mom’s house to get better, I took McKenna to the much less peaceful Abbott beach house for my family’s annual Outer Banks vacation. Since…
The first few days of our beach vacation in Buxton, the weather and water were perfect at the beach, which left only one problem other than the fact that we were staying in the same house as family members for an entire week – the AC for the second level was not working. Since the…
On Saturday, July 12 we headed down to the Outer Banks for the Abbott vacation. Once we get to the Outer Banks, everything is great; the drive down there, not so much. On Saturdays, this is the scene on highway 158: When I took the picture of the traffic above, Laura was immediately suspicious that…
