Article: Take It to the Banks; Getting to the Core of the North Carolina Coast

If you want to be alone -- or if you want to be reminded that you are not, really -- you'll want to get yourself to the very bottom of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

At just about any windswept, panoramic point on Core Banks, whose two uninhabited barrier islands make up the Cape Lookout National Seashore stretching 55 miles southwest from Ocracoke Inlet, absolute aloneness is guaranteed.

Then again, if you're lucky, being alone amid such a deafening, ceaseless dance of the elements, you might just make the kind of internal connections that don't normally occur to the social, single-minded worker bee in mid-swarm at Metro Center.

I don't recommend making this trip alone. You will ...

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