Pretty home on the beach

When I was a kid growing up in Virginia Beach, we sometimes took trips to nearby Kill Devil Hills which is a stone's throw from some Nags Head vacation rentals that Carolina Designs is fronting a weekend getaway for some chosen online content writers in a contest.

Times and places can diminish in a person's mind, becoming grayed out past the memorable incidents affecting the senses. The scent of salt spray lingering in a child's nostrils, the feel of fine sand between toes after running behind a kite turning circles, things that stay with a person for ages in flashback vignettes.

In an era that we live filled with technology and marvels unrealized just decades past, there are still places available that families can go for themselves to get away from it all. While Disney, Epcot, and Universal venues are closer...there are times I yearn for the touch of morning sun on my face at the peak of day's break.

With a cup of coffee and my kids still snoring inside, bliss.