Outer Banks This Week Blog

Outer Banks information comes in many forms, but there’s no better way to learn it than through conversations with a local. The OuterBanksThisWeek.com blog is that local friend … even if you already live here! Every week, Molly Harrison gives the run down on Outer Banks activities, Outer Banks events, Outer Banks shopping – all the Outer Banks information needed to ensure that you have the best possible experience. And she does it in a conversational way that’s easy to read and entertaining. Outer Banks activities are numerous, and this blog gives you an insider’s scoop to help you plan your day. She leads you to all the Outer Banks events you won’t want to miss – sports, annual functions and holiday festivities. She gives you her input on the most exciting Outer Banks activities – the ones she loves, the ones she thinks you should love. If anything exciting or out-of-the-ordinary is happening during your visit – and there definitely will be something – this blog is your trusty guide to figuring out the whats, whens and wheres.

Nightlife, for example, is detailed here – what band is playing where, which scene is wild, which is chill. Festivals are also described – the ones that are old and loved and the ones that are new and anticipated. The amount of Outer Banks information offered here will keep you busy and in the know. You can find out what would be fun for you, your family or even your pets.

A fun touch of this blog is its conversational element. Hannah Lee always wants to hear from you! In fact, reader input can influence the basis of her next blog’s focus. So if there’s a topic or question you’re craving an answer for, let her know. Sit a spell and read through present and past OuterBanksThisWeek.com blogs. With all the Outer Banks information detailed for you, you’ll be the trusted source to all your friends!

A Passion for Nature Nurtures a Photographer's Growth

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 14, 2015
What transforms a simple interest into a passion, a hobby into an art form, a youthful enthusiast into a professional-level artist? For 20-year old photographer Gordon Dimmig, his growth as an artist began with a love of the outdoors and the desire to visually record what he saw in nature, using picture-taking as a... Read More

Buffer Those Post-Holiday Blues With Learning

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 7, 2015
The holidays are over. The bangles, baubles, bells and bows packed up and returned to storage. The lights taken down and stuffed into boxes where, over an 11-month hibernation period, they will mysteriously metamorphose back into the byzantine coils and sticky tangles that drive previously mild-mannered holiday... Read More

Greetings of the Season

By Beth P. Storie | Tuesday, December 23, 2014
All of us at OuterBanksThisWeek.com want to wish you the happiest holiday season. However you celebrate this time of year, we hope you celebrate it well and pass the cheer on to the others around you and accept theirs back to you. It seems the time goes slowly as we anticipate the holidays, then it flies by once the... Read More

Dimming Days A Prelude To Holiday Glow

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Mostly, I love this time of year. I am relatively impervious to the cold, so I don’t mind winter’s chill much at all. (Spend a few collegiate winters in Blacksburg, VA, and you’ll laugh at winter just about anywhere else you go south of the Great Lakes.) By Thanksgiving my preferred wardrobe with its gothic-inspired... Read More

But, wait! There’s more! Christmas Comes to Town, Part 2

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Santa’s already out and about, there’s much too much to do and time’s a-wastin,’ so let’s get right to it. I’ll begin with a set of events that are running throughout the holidays before covering the festivities specific to the coming weekend.Each year The Elizabethan Gardens’ nightly WinterLights celebration just... Read More