Great look at vacationing in the Outer Banks by the Examiner.com

BS News producer Jack Halsbond was behind the wheel of The Early Show’s Winnebago, traveling the country in July and August as part of the “Great American Vacation” giveaway road trip. Read his Web-exclusive road diary.

The “Great American Vacation” giveaway on the Outer Banks of North Carolina featured a lot of terrific people.

Mo and Beth Vandesteene, who manage the KOA Campground in Rodanthe, make sure that every detail is taken care of. We though that we were receiving special attention until the other campers quickly informed that that’s the way they treat all their guests.

At the KOA’s Cape Hatteras Campground, you will met some genuine folks such as Manny and Angela Negreiro who with their son and daughter, Nathan and Ariana, and German Shepard Zeus came up from Florida.

The Cyr Michaud and Wilson families’ traveled down from Ontario in French Canada and have been doing so for the past 20 years. Their children have literally grown up at Rodanthe. They were camped out in front of our Winnebago. There were lots of different people from diverse backgrounds with a common interest in living life to the fullest. On the Outer Banks, that’s the way it is.

On Manteo, another island on the Outer Banks, we visited the Roanoke Island Festival Park where we gave away another Caribbean Island dream vacation. Thanks to the efforts of many and with the considerable help of Carolyn McCormick, managing director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau and Scott Stroh III, Executive Director of Roanoke Island Festival Park we enjoyed another spectacular morning. As the threat of rain passed into brilliant sunshine, we were treated to the sights of the original inhabitants of the Outer Banks.

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