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Article: Take It to the Banks; Getting to the Core of the North Carolina Coast
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 30, 1996
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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 ...