We spent three relaxing nights in Kitty Hawk, NC. My brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Laura Cromwell, have been renting a beach house on the outer banks of North Carolina for the past few years. When they realized that we would be passing through NC on our way down the parkway, they invited us to join them. They rented a nice place right on the beach with a beautiful ocean view. The beach was wide and clean and the ocean was a perfect temperature.
Rick and I spent a morning at the Wright Brothers Memorial and found it fascinating. Orville and Wilbur Wright were self-taught engineers who ran a bicycle shop In Dayton, OH. They pretty much built every part of their planes themselves. They tried to get Ford and several other engine manufacturers to design an engine for them, but nobody was interested. So they were obliged to design and build one themselves, despite having virtually no previous knowledge of engines. They funded all their experiments with profits from their bike shop. Their perseverance and courage is truly inspiring.
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