Day 8- 7/24: headed north again

Up again for the routine run, this time in ocracoke. After a very windy and fairly hot night of camping the night prior, we popped for the hotel in town, which was definitely worth it. The heat wave had broken though, so it was actually fairly cool, relative to the last few days. Jaunt around town, reminiscent of a lot of sleepy beach towns with lots of sand, scrubby trees, and plenty of hotels/ b and bs. They have a bike path that goes out to the nps campground as well, but that’s about the extent of roads on the island. Got a coffee after the run, and we spent another good late morning on the same beach as yesterday. Again sparsely populated and a nice day, despite all the rain they had predicted. Continued on back to the ferry, which takes an hour or so to get us back to Hatteras island, which then connects to the next island and then the mainland via causeways. The sleepy towns get more commercialized as you head north and it’s pretty congested by the time you hop the causeway to the mainland- only 90 min from Norfolk. Made a pit stop at farmhouse brewing, so huge converted farmhouse right in the middle of the Virginia Beach. The beer was solid, but expensive. Ambiance was hard to beat though.
Picked up some grocery supplies for a salad, and camped at kiptopeke state park at the cape of the Chesapeake bay. Great campsites and we had the non-reservable loop nearly to ourselves. Another solid day in the road.