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Outer Banks Blue Named Greenest Outer Banks Rental Company

I just finished up a couple of advertisements for Outer Banks Blue Realty, located in Kitty Hawk NC. They are now the "Greenest Outer Banks Rental Company" and have been working very hard to eliminate the unnecessary and revamp the way business on the Outer Banks operates in conjunction with the

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Wink's Grocery Store in Kitty Hawk is Closed

Things in Kitty Hawk are just not the same this week as the new year brought to us the loss of a trusted friend and the closing the doors of our unofficial town hall. Wink's grocery store in Kitty Hawk is closed. The familiar yellow happy face sign on the front of the store that had the right eye

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Outer Banks Named in

The New York Times Bestseller "1000 Places to See Before You Die" is a dreamers paradise. Sort of a life time bucket list the book makes one wonder about what it would be like to see the Highland games in Scotland, walk the Acropolis in Greece, and see the Penguin Rookeries in Antarctica.But in

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How Pet Friendly is the Outer Banks???

This week's Memory Monday Submission comes to us from Stephanie Clossin of Ashville, Pennsylvania. She and her family stayed in the "High Tide" vacation rental property in Nags Head September 19th through 26th.We will let Stephanie tell the story of her stay with us.Our Outer Banks vacation at the

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Road from Vacation Back to Real World Could Use a Rest Stop

By: Burt Constable, Columnist Chicago Daily HeraldEverything Outer Banks is pleased to introduce Mr. Burt Constable to our readers today. Mr. Constable is a columnist for the Chicago Daily Herald, and he recently returned to Chicago after an Outer Banks Vacation. He writes about what we believe all

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Vacation Rentals Looking Good in Recent Study

The current gloomy economic environment is evidently affecting consumers' interest in certain types of lodging accommodations, as revealed in the just-released Ypartnership/Yankelovich 2009 National Travel MONITOR. All of the information seems to point favorably to vacaton rental homes as a lodging

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Dr. Beach picks OBX in his top 10 beaches AGAIN

Dr. Beach (aka Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman) has evaluated all major public recreational beaches in the U.S. America and has recently released his his annual top 10 Beaches in the U.S. list for the 19th time.On his website (http://www.drbeach.org/) Dr. Beach says beaches are the number one recreational...

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Happy Memorial Day from Outer Banks Blue

Happy Memorial Day! The unofficial start to the summer season is upon us and here at Everything Outer Banks and we greet the day with excitement and reverence.The Memorial Day holiday is officially explained in wikipedia as a federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May and commemorates the

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The Growth of the Phrase

This week on "Everything Outer Banks" on Memory Monday, I am remembering the growth of this area and I am struck by the term "Outer Banks." As a 46 year resident of the area I remember the day when I would tell people that I was from "Nags Head" because I didn't have to explain where Kitty Hawk was

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Thinking of an Outer Banks Beach Wedding?

Spring time on the Outer Banks is definitely upon us, and in addition to the preparation of rental houses for the coming season we are also seeing weekend visitors increase. We've noticed here at "Everything Outer Banks" that some of those visitors are thinking about having their wedding on these

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