Jake DeHaan

On the Tickle Sticks last expedition we had an amazing time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. One day around mid-way through the expedition we had found a restaurant the group had been interested in going to. The name of the restaurant was Dirty Dicks Crab House. After spending about half a day at the beach James and I had the idea of presenting this scheme to Mark. We half joking ask him seeing at the group didn’t have a lot of personal money and it was a far drive. Despite the odds, Mark shot us with a challenge. The challenge was to bury him in sand, up to his head. He gave us the time limit of 10 minutes for him to get out, and if he couldn’t, SOAR would pay for the dinner. The team was ready and exited for the challenge. Right away we got to work. We used a skim board that James had bought a few days before to cut through the hard sand. After about 3 feet we had David go face-first into the hole while I held his legs so he didn’t fall in. After about four feet we hit water, which made it even harder to go through. But some how we had it deep enough for him to stand upright in. Not all to surprisingly Mark was able to get out in around 3 and a half minutes. Despite him beating the time, Mark was so impressed with the group’s hard work he allowed SOAR to pay for it. So we hopped in the van after a quick shower and in about an hour we arrived. I ordered calamari and alligator tail, which was absolutely amazing. We left Dirty Dicks and went to bed right away. The next day on out way to the ferry Ocracoke, which was about 10 minutes from our campsite we passed another Dirty Dicks. We all laughed as we realized we had done two hours of driving when all we could had done was 20 minutes. Over all it was an amazing trip with a lot of really great experiences.