Active Lifestyle Tour Series Specifcally Designed for the Active Traveler OF May 3 - 8, 2020 Small Group Tour Join us as we travel to the outer banks of North Carolina to enjoy the breezes, sand, surf, and wildlife.

Wild Spanish Mustang

Day 1: Marshall, MN to Minneapolis, MN Enjoy a relaxing evening in the Twin Cities in preparation for tomorrow’s early morning fight. Hilton Garden Inn Eagan

Day 2: Minneapolis, MN to Kitty Hawk, NC You will depart the Minneapolis airport today for your fight to Norfolk, VA. Tonight you will have an included dinner and a chance to get to know your fellow travelers. Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks * Dinner Included

Day 3: Kitty Hawk, NC This morning visit the North Carolina Aquarium, see live animal encounters, feedings, a 285,000-gallon shark tank, interactive exhibits and more. The Elizabethan Gardens will impress you with a 10-acre historical site planted with various horticultural collections chosen every year for the various colors. Enjoy lunch on the Manteo waterfront, where a boardwalk connects the town boat ramp and marina, waterfront gazebo, playground, and picnic areas with the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, and the George Washington Creef Boat- house. See the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, an exterior reconstruction of the square cottage-style screw-pile lighthouse which stood at the southern entrance to , near Wanchese. The lighthouse now houses historical and educational activities under the direction of the North Carolina Maritime Museum. This afternoon you will learn about the original settlement as you visit Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Roanoke Colony was England’s frst New World settlement dating from 1584 to 1590. A visit to The Christmas Shop will give you time to shop over 15,000 square feet, full of unique gifts, decor and locally made candy, jewelry and more. Enjoy your included dinner at your waterfront Cafe before returning to your hotel for the evening. Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks * Breakfast & Dinner Included Day 4: Kitty Hawk, NC Today you are in for a real treat as you see the Wild Ponies HIGHLIGHTS of the Outer Banks. For 50 years, the most enduring - and endearing - residents of the Outer Banks, the wild Colonial North Carolina Aquarium Spanish Mustangs, have called this sliver of land between sound Elizabethan Gardens and sea home. These feral horses descended from a herd brought Manteo Waterfront here by explorers as early as the 1520s and recognized as the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse state horse of North Carolina. Adventurous visitors can get a Fort Raleigh National Historic Site close-up view of the horses by taking one of the many The Christmas Shop guided tours ofered at both Corolla and Shackleford Banks. (This Wild Ponies of Outer Banks is an optional tour and is at an additional cost.) After time for lunch on your own and to enjoy the Duck Town Boardwalk, a mile-long Currituck Beach Lighthouse boardwalk with boat launches on the banks of a sound, linking Duck Town Boardwalk restaurants, marsh & forest. You will visit the Currituck Beach Whalehead Beach Lighthouse, a National Register Historic Place. Since 1873, this Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site Museum lighthouse has kept mariners from danger, night and day. The Lighthouse Keepers’ Dwelling has housed more than two dozen families, Jockey’s Ridge State Park as their duties of “Lighthouse Keeper” were carried out. Enjoy 4 Breakfasts / 4 Dinners a stop at Whalehead Beach, a serene beach community on the Outer Banks of North Carolina known for its unspoiled beaches. Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks * Breakfast & Dinner Included

Day 5: Kitty Hawk, NC A guided tour of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site Museum, a former station of the United States Life- Saving Service and US Coast Guard. You’ll also tour the , protecting one of the most hazardous sections of the Atlantic Coast. Currents force southbound ships into a dangerous twelve-mile long sandbar called Diamond Shoals. Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of shipwrecks in this area have given it the reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. A visit to Jockey’s Ridge State Park introduces you to the tallest active sand dune system in the Eastern United States. The park is is also a premier location for kites and sight- seeing, with a view arcing from the ocean to Roanoke Sound. This evening enjoy dinner at a popular local seafood restau- rant. Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks* Breakfast & Dinner Included

Day 6: Kitty Hawk, NC to Marshall, MN Pack your bags, it’s time to depart for Minnesota with thoughts of the Outer Banks on your mind. Breakfast Included Cash Price Credit Card Price Per Person Per Person Double $ 2,605 $ 2,705 Triple $ 2,440 $ 2,535 Quad $ 2,360 $ 2,455 Single $ 3,080 $ 3,205

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