First Friday

Manteo, NC
N 35 54.528 W 075 40.102

We're back in Manteo where we stopped last spring on our way north. We are on Roanoke Island right next to the place where they show the Pagent June through August.

We are also within sight of Nags Heat and Kitty Hawk. This area is a magnet for tourists and even in October there are plenty of them around.

The weather today is especially delightful so we hope to see a lot of people out on the street for tonight's First Friday celebration. That's something they do here every month.

Last night, prior to the debate we watched the stars and tried to spot a passing sattelite. Being anchored out in the sound exposed to wind and waves, we had a very bumpy time while we were listening to the debate. OK, I'll confess -- we fell asleep about 60 minutes into the 90 minute debate. The truth seemed to be that if the candidates are not going to risk screwing up, then they recite talking points thus making the debates very boring.

Out of the 26 debates so far this election season, the only one that seemed to provide information that an ordinary citizen would like to hear was the one hosted by Reverend Rick Warren. The other 25, all run by professional journalists, were boring and uninformative. I swear that today's journalists claim to be serving the public but they act as if their only audience was other journalists. They claim to ask what the American People want to know, but I suspect they ask whatever gives them brownie points with other journalists, then they falsely claim that is what the public wants.