{"id":22145,"date":"2019-12-01T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=22145"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:55:41","slug":"inner-banks-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/inner-banks-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Banks, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I set my sights on a doughnut hole of unvisited counties in northeastern North Carolina.&nbsp; I&#8217;d left them untouched until now.&nbsp; No interstate highways <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16597\">passed through them<\/a>.&nbsp; The didn&#8217;t fall on a direct path <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=10347\">coming home from the beach<\/a>.&nbsp; They simply sat there as empty white space on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/counties\/united-states-county-map.html\">County Counting<\/a> map.&nbsp; Seven of them, waiting to be plucked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veterans Day fell on a Monday this year.&nbsp; The weather looked good and it seemed like a perfect excuse for a mid-November road trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Route<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/inner-banks-route.png\" alt=\"The drive to North Carolina's Inner Banks\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve successfully captured most of the counties in my immediate area.&nbsp; Unfortunately I can&#8217;t get to any new ones without driving about three hours.&nbsp; The little cluster I targeted required a bunch of driving through placed I&#8217;d already seen a bunch of times.&nbsp; So I stuck to Interstates 95 and 64 at off-peak hours and endured it as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Descriptively this geographic area fell within North Carolina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inner_Banks\">Inner Banks<\/a>.&nbsp; That contrasted with the more well known Outer Banks, the barrier islands protecting the mainland.&nbsp; Two almost harbor-like bodies of water bordered the western flank of the Outer Banks: Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.&nbsp; I targeted counties on the northern side of Albemarle Sound:&nbsp; Bertie; Camden; Chowan; Gates; Hertford; Pasquotank; and Perquimans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inner Banks seemed like a perfect geographic description.&nbsp; I figured it dated to colonial times.&nbsp; Not so, I learned.&nbsp; It didn&#8217;t even go back two decades.&nbsp; Tourism bureaus and real estate speculators invented it in the early 21st Century to attract business.&nbsp; It was nothing more than a modern marketing ploy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virginia Zoo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/49040005318\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49040005318_07f2921765_o.jpg\" alt=\"Tapir Urine Danger\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I always enjoy these trips more when I can convince someone to tag along and join he fun.&nbsp; However this came with a rather obvious problem.&nbsp; Who else would consider county counting &#8220;fun?&#8221;&nbsp; I went to my reliable fallback, the simple bribe.&nbsp; My older son who loves zoos had never been to the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Virginia+Zoo\/@36.8767734,-76.3471607,12z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89ba982b861776a1:0x177512b42cbbc740!8m2!3d36.8767691!4d-76.2771229?hl=en\">map<\/a>).&nbsp; I dangled that enticement and he readily agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coincidentally, the zoo sat just around the corner from where I <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=21651\">caught the C-2 Greyhound<\/a> to head out to the aircraft carrier a couple of months earlier.&nbsp; That brought back some fond memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally I wondered how this particular zoo became <em>THE<\/em> Virginia Zoo.&nbsp; What made it more important than any other zoo in the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=43\">Commonwealth<\/a>?&nbsp; Later I learned that although the zoo <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiazoo.org\/about\/zoo-history\/\">dated back to 1900-or-so<\/a> they actually called it the Lafayette Zoo for most of that time.&nbsp; It sat along the Lafayette River within a park of the same name so it made perfect sense.&nbsp; They changed the name in 1985, I guess because nobody else ever thought to claim it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The zoo seemed nice, a little smaller than some we&#8217;ve visited although well done in appearance and presentation.&nbsp; They also seemed to have an affection for monitor lizards.&nbsp; I&#8217;d never seen so many varieties in a single place.&nbsp; We finished in a couple of hours and continued with the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Museum of the Albemarle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/49040000748\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49040000748_6d85e2e133_o.jpg\" alt=\"Museum of the Albemarle\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next we continued to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, capturing our first two new counties along the way, Camden and Pasquotank.&nbsp; We planned to stay the night here and use it as our base for the second day.&nbsp; The entire drive went better to expected &#8212; <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=21638\">no delays this time<\/a> &#8212; so we arrived a lot earlier than we figured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofthealbemarle.com\/\">Museum of the Albemarle <\/a>although I didn&#8217;t know if we&#8217;d get a chance.&nbsp; It closed at 5:00 pm on Saturdays. However it didn&#8217;t open at all on Sundays, this being the South and all, so we had only this one late Saturday afternoon chance.&nbsp; We made it with about an hour to spare (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Museum+of+the+Albemarle\/@36.2964913,-76.2371755,14z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89a545a1551b9cad:0x11a185271bb648f2!8m2!3d36.296487!4d-76.219666?hl=en\">map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This place is definitely worth visiting and it doesn&#8217;t even charge admission!&nbsp; I&#8217;d recommend it anyone who happens to be in the area.&nbsp; Obviously somebody put some serious money into this museum and it shows.&nbsp; Oh, it looks like the State of North Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofthealbemarle.com\/visit\/about-us\">runs it<\/a>.&nbsp; That explained it.&nbsp; Taxpayers fund it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"ghost-harbor\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ghost Harbor Brewing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/49039996848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49039996848_059e68b19e_o.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Harbor Brewing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well of course I had to visit a brewery.&nbsp; Conveniently, Elizabeth City included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostharborbrewing.com\/\">Ghost Harbor Brewing<\/a> in its compact downtown (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Ghost+Harbor+Brewing+Company\/@36.3006765,-76.2277571,15z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89a545a189e1ff01:0x5e208742d451fd84!8m2!3d36.3006722!4d-76.2190024?hl=en\">map<\/a>).&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t know if they&#8217;d allow kids in there so I sort-of hid with my son at a table well away from the bar.&nbsp; I tried a flight of four small pours and we went on our way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few breweries seemed to populate this corner of the state, and in fact Ghost Harbor might be the only one.&nbsp; Other parts of North Carolina, <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16151\">like Asheville<\/a> or even the geographically nearby Outer Banks, had them in droves.&nbsp; Maybe the trend will spread to quieter spots like this over time.&nbsp; Still, I remained grateful that a place like Ghost Harbor existed at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elizabeth City<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/49040504006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49040504006_7f5d052e46_o.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth City Water Tower\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth City (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Elizabeth+City,+NC+27909\/@36.2994799,-76.3124914,12z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89a545a709f07bc5:0xa8b3edb05e3ce883!8m2!3d36.2946008!4d-76.2510461?hl=en\">map<\/a>) felt like a town in transition.&nbsp; The downtown could use a little restoration, maybe a couple layers of fresh paint, some foot traffic and a few more businesses to attract it.&nbsp; Early signs of redevelopment could be sensed though.&nbsp; Lots of people head down this way and want to live on the waterfront.&nbsp; Many towns along the Albemarle Sound took advantage of that and Elizabeth City seemed to be courting the same demographic trend.&nbsp; Give it a little time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=22146\">Day 2<\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/albums\/72157633771525899\">The Complete Photo Album on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set my sights on a doughnut hole of unvisited counties in northeastern North Carolina.&nbsp; I&#8217;d left them untouched until now.&nbsp; No interstate highways passed through them.&nbsp; The didn&#8217;t fall on a direct path coming home from the beach.&nbsp; They simply sat there as empty white space on my County Counting map.&nbsp; Seven of them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7973,28,96,22],"tags":[6872,496,2778,1990,6874,6873,6869,1620,2462,604,6875,1912,6870,30,5862],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewery","category-cities","category-history","category-counties","tag-albemarle-sound","tag-brewery","tag-camden","tag-county-counting","tag-elizabeth-city","tag-ghost-harbor","tag-inner-banks","tag-museum","tag-norfolk","tag-north-carolina","tag-pasquotank","tag-road-trip","tag-tapir","tag-virginia","tag-zoo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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