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What do you do on route 64? ![Unsure](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/unsure.gif)
Well in NC it was key to my summer vacation this year. I hadn't planned it that way, but after taking little Miss P on a trip to Chattanooga last week and then all three of us going to the Outer Banks this week past, I realised while daydreaming as I drove along the very flat and uninteresting highway east of Raleigh, that I had driven a very large part, though not all, of the NC section of US64 in just three days.
US 64 is the longest single numbered highway in NC, running from just east of Chattanooga, TN near the extreme SW of North Carolina, all the way to Whalebone Junction near the northern end of the Outer Banks in NE North Carolina. Our hotel (entirely coincidentally) overlooked Whalebone Junction.
Along the way we passed Bat Cave, NC.![Smile](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
At the western end we deviated from US64 in favour of a route through the Appalachian mountains to Ashville.
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Well in NC it was key to my summer vacation this year. I hadn't planned it that way, but after taking little Miss P on a trip to Chattanooga last week and then all three of us going to the Outer Banks this week past, I realised while daydreaming as I drove along the very flat and uninteresting highway east of Raleigh, that I had driven a very large part, though not all, of the NC section of US64 in just three days.
US 64 is the longest single numbered highway in NC, running from just east of Chattanooga, TN near the extreme SW of North Carolina, all the way to Whalebone Junction near the northern end of the Outer Banks in NE North Carolina. Our hotel (entirely coincidentally) overlooked Whalebone Junction.
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Along the way we passed Bat Cave, NC.
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At the western end we deviated from US64 in favour of a route through the Appalachian mountains to Ashville.
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Glad you did it this time of year, since in the winter, there is often a rock slide just inside the TN line in Polk County, resulting in a major detour.
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There was on-going repair work on the road in several places, including a couple with a single traffic lane and traffic lights, in the western approaches to the Appalachians, where the road had been partially undermined by the river.
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I drove along the very flat and uninteresting highway east of Raleigh
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Sounds about right, for the section from Raleigh to Williamston.
We also passed this restaurant, for which I have previously posted a picture I found on-line (I didn't know where it was, nor did I try to find where it was), but this is one that Mrs P took as we passed by. It is close to the Wright brothers memorial national park on the Outer Banks, on US64.
We also passed this restaurant, for which I have previously posted a picture I found on-line (I didn't know where it was, nor did I try to find where it was), but this is one that Mrs P took as we passed by. It is close to the Wright brothers memorial national park on the Outer Banks, on US64.
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That is funny. I guess Bob is a plane talker. Ba-dum.
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We followed a Google Street View car for several miles along US64 as we headed east towards Raleigh, so we are keeping an eye open for when they upload new pictures for the stretch of US64 that we were driving on.
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We also passed this restaurant, for which I have previously posted a picture I found on-line (I didn't know where it was, nor did I try to find where it was), but this is one that Mrs P took as we passed by. It is close to the Wright brothers memorial national park on the Outer Banks, on US64.
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We have a local diner whose sign says "Eat Heavy Here". Honesty is always good IMO.
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I was reading a book based in the Outer Banks not long ago. It sounds like a great place to visit but possibly not to live.
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It is one of the windiest places I have ever been. We bought a kite, as the conditions are ideal for kiting, and all we had to do was hold the kite up with one hand while holding the string with the other, then let go of the kite, let out some string, and up it went. ..... It was no where near as much fun as I remember it being trying to fly a kite with my father when I was a child.
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You can feed the sharks there.
........ 3-4 people have been bitten within a couple of miles of one of the beaches we visited since we came home. The people were no further into the sea than waist- thigh deep, so maybe 15-20ft from the shoreline.
It is one of the windiest places I have ever been. We bought a kite, as the conditions are ideal for kiting, and all we had to do was hold the kite up with one hand while holding the string with the other, then let go of the kite, let out some string, and up it went. ..... It was no where near as much fun as I remember it being trying to fly a kite with my father when I was a child.![LOL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/lol.gif)
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It is one of the windiest places I have ever been. We bought a kite, as the conditions are ideal for kiting, and all we had to do was hold the kite up with one hand while holding the string with the other, then let go of the kite, let out some string, and up it went. ..... It was no where near as much fun as I remember it being trying to fly a kite with my father when I was a child.
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I live about a mile from US 64 on the west side of Raleigh. I actually quite enjoy driving it. We use it for trips to the Zoo and Charlotte (by avoiding the I-85 hellhole). I haven't driven it on the east side in a long time but I do recall it being a bit of a bore.
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