In 1991, John and Linda Lipman took a round-circle vacation, driving south through the mountains of Virginia, then turning east through North Carolina tobacco country, ending up at the southern end of North Carolina's Outer Bank islands. We then drove north across the barrier islands to the historic (and modern) playgrounds of Virginia. We then took a look into space travel as we headed home across the Chesapeake shoreline.
The material for this website has been sitting in a scrapbook all these years, seen by no one. While fighting the flu one week in the winter of 1998, I decided to finally make a series of web pages so that others can enjoy our trip. To the best of my knowledge, all of these things are still there.
| Part One: | The Mountains |
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Skyline Drive, Virginia to Skyland Lodge |
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Luray Caverns |
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Blue Ridge Parkway to Roanoke, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Cigarette Factory Tour and drive to North Carolina Coast |
| Part Two: | The Sea |
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Cruise to Ocracoke Island and Cape Hatteras |
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Apollo 9 photo of the Outer Bank Islands - 1969 |
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Hatteras, Bodie, and Roanoke Islands, also Kitty Hawk |
| Part Three: | Carry Me Back To Ol' Virginny... |
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Dismal Swamp, North Carolina and Virginia |
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Smithfield, Virginia and the famous Smithfield Hams |
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Yorktown Victory Center, Virginia |
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Jamestown Settlement, Virginia |
| Part Four: | Make That "Not So Old" Virginny |
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Busch Gardens Theme Park, Virginia |
| Part Five: | Blast Off Back To Home |
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NASA Space Center at Langley, Virginia |
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Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel |
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Sunset on the Bay in Trappe, Maryland |
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Story and original photography copyright ©1991, 1998 by John Lipman.
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