Greeting from North Carolina!

Hello everyone!
Erin here...
I am writing to you from the public library in Wilmington, North Carolina (home of Dawson's Creek!). So...Ari and I arrived in Norfolk, VA last Sunday night, and we have spent the majority of this past week in the Outer Banks of NC. The Outer Banks were awesome - you can't ask for much more than biking along the beach in rural areas (i.e. not a lot of scary cars/busy highways) in great weather (we missed the tropical storms/tornadoes on the mainland, thankfully). We got to camp on the beach one night, which was awesome! On Thursday, we got back to mainland via ferry and biked through a beautiful area with some of the nicest people I've ever met - and we found some awesome southern bakeries on the side of the road (although nothing compares to dev or siv's baking :). There is so much support for eating/buying locally in this area, which has been nice to see! Thursday night we arrived in Beaufort, NC and we came across this awesome bar which was kind of the hang out for liberal people in the area. They were having a VP debate party (equipped with Palin Bingo!) and we met some really cool people there. A woman named Hope let us stay on her boat for the night (thank you!!!), which was a nice break from getting eaten alive by mosquitoes constantly (the amount of bites we each have is pretty much appalling). Beaufort was an awesome little oceanside town. Yesterday we biked through Jacksonville (sadly, we were one week too early for the swansboro mullet festival), and now we've arrived in Wilmington, just in time for a big river festival! The biking has been pretty challenging for me, and pretty easy for Ari (despite the fact that she is carrying the vast majority our gear :)), but we are getting stonger and faster! Ari's aunt bought her a GPS tracking device that we have with us as of yesterday, so you can follow our progress on google earth at this link http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0CKDzWMWCWVPkaQxCnOjQUFovZiXy2leu
That is all for now.
Don't forget to help us raise money for the Venice Family Clinic, if you can!!!
Love,
Erin