Cape Hatteras National Seashore

This is a quick update. I got a job!! I started Monday, April 19th as a park ranger at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean North Carolina. I accepted the job on March 26th while on the road to Indiana. I was asked to report Monday April 5th, which gave me about a week and a half, minus the weekend I was spending in Indiana.

Remember this post? It turns out the 'myth' of bed bugs was not a myth. In late March, I started waking up with bites, reported it, and my building manager said they would treat the issue on Tues March 30. I therefore decided to work that day since I couldn't be in my apartment anyway.

In the middle of frantic packing, and sweating copious amounts because they killed the bed bugs with heat (140 degrees F) I get a call saying I couldn't start when I was supposed to due to my background check so I decided to stick to the heading to Houston schedule and spend some time there until I could head out to North Carolina. While in Houston, I made a quilt for my dear friend who is getting married.

I went up to College Station my second weekend in Texas and was able to visit friends up there. The friend I stayed with is taking a civilian firefighting class and let me dress up in her suit.

I got the email April 13th that my background had passed and I left the 14th for Hatteras. I arrived on the afternoon of the 15th, and started officially Monday the 19th. The picture of the deer was taking from my double-wide trailer which will be my home for the next six months.

This is my duty station, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse.

This really is me putting my feet in the Atlantic yesterday evening after work. It was really cold.

I don't have internet in my trailer yet but I hope to give more detail and more pictures throughout the summer!