Outer Banks 2026
I don't think I've posted much about my family's annual Outer Banks vacation, so I thought I would share some pictures and tell you about one of our favorite weeks of the year. The trip started as a beach vacation with several of my parents' friends and their kids in 2003. My dad's boss had an oceanfront house at Topsail Beach that we rented when I was a junior in high school. Several families went together and all the kids loved it (I'm sure all the parents loved it too, which is why it became tradition). On that first trip, I mostly remember hanging out with my friend Kat and walking all over the town of Topsail, which was a small beach town back then. The parents then decided to move the trip to Duck the following year. They rented a big house in early September and since most of the "kids" were driving at that point, anyone could come and go throughout the week. We always had a great time and they did this trip each year until 2019, staying in var...
