Sunday, July 10, 2005

"We talked about going to the Caribbean this year, and our kids said, 'But what about Ocracoke?'"

-- Wade Carmichael, vacationing for the 21st straight year on the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island,

which Florida beach expert Stephen Leatherman ("Dr. Beach") just ranked as the second-best beach in America. (No. 1: Fort DeSoto Park's North Beach, St. Petersburg, Fla.)