Awesome (pronounced 'aarrggh-sum')

All aboard the Ocracoke ferry

This is the only adjective used in the USA to describe everything from the sun rising over the Grand Canyon to the colour of milk. Absolutely everything that is, apart from......coffee! In Ocracoke they have thankfully gone one better to describe their coffee......scrumptrulescent. The defintion being, 'so great that any other word employed would be woefully insufficient and would serve only to limit the sheer magnitude of the greatness intended'. Awesome. Up at the crack of dawn this morning to catch the car ferry from Ocracoke Island to Cedar Island on our journey down the North Carolina coast. It was calm, sunny, and about 80F for the 2 hour crossing which cost just $15 (£9) followed by a short visit to the lovely riverside town of Beaufort. Part of the adventure is not knowing what we're going to see or where we're going to end up each night and today was no different. It was Tiffany's in Surf City which conjures up something very grand except Tiffany’s was a motel, there was no surf and it certainly wsn’t a city. Actually it was very good value and right on the beach. When checking in I was waiting to hear the word 'awesome' but I inadvertently used the very British word 'stumbled', and before I knew it I was comprehensibly beaten at word trumps.