Well. We really didn’t intend to wait quite so long to go on another road trip, but it’s been a rather eventful few years to say the least. First there was the pandemic. You remember that, I’m sure. Not much to say about it except to be thankful we survived…
Work is done for the year, we’ve packed basically half the house and we’re ready to roll. Next stop Rocky Mount North Carolina (I don’t know who I’m kidding, we’re going to stop 12 times between NJ and our hotel!) 🤣
This is our intended route for our winter 2024 road trip. Today was supposed to be an 8 hour drive. Yea, right. Left the house around 8:30am, arrived in Rocky Mount, NC at 7:00pm. Stopped once for lunch, stopped twice for fuel, stopped 27 times to pee, ran into heavy…
It was another long day in the car. Definitely not as bad as yesterday, since we really didn’t hit any traffic. We stopped for lunch at Lake Marion in South Carolina, and had a picnic overlooking the lake. Walking over to the picnic table, we saw an armadillo. We’ve never…
We left Jacksonville bright and early after a nice breakfast. We’ve decided 95 is one of the most boring drives we’ve ever been on, and people drive like maniacs. We did have a bright spot when Jon spotted a Land Cruiser with a roof top tent – obviously one of…
We got lucky with the weather, and spent the morning at Morikami Gardens. This is a truly lovely, serene museum and Japanese gardens a little north of where we’re staying. Jon and I really enjoying walking around, and we got to see plenty of local wildlife too: They even had…
After saying goodbye to my Mom and Marilyn, we headed north. We tried so very hard to find a citrus grove – we thought it would be super fun to pick oranges off the tree. Turns out it’s all a lie, you can only get them shipped. I think they’re…
Not much to say today, except yay! we aren’t in Florida any more. We are definitely NOT fans of the Sunshine State, and we can say categorically we are never moving there no matter how old and decrepit we are. About the only notable thing that happened today was when…
We had fun today. We walked what felt like a thousand miles (ok, not really) around the older part of Charleston. The architecture was really beautiful. We spent a lot of time speculating about what it would be like to live in a house built originally in the 1600s… a…
This morning we decided to visit Angel Oak. It’s only about 9 miles outside of Charleston, in John’s Island. Google said the tree was closed until 1pm, but we were like, it’s a tree, it can’t be closed. So we drove out there and…. the tree was closed. Which meant…
Not too much to say today… just a lot of driving. I can’t tell if we saw more cows than churches. I think the cows have a narrow lead, but not by much. Our hotel is pretty cool, it’s a converted schoolhouse. Lots of tech, which always makes us happy….
We drove to the southern end of the gorge, which is closest to where we are staying. We stopped in one of the Park Service Visitor Center, where somehow we got roped into watching a video about watersheds and the things that impact them. It was a little preachy, to…
Today was absolutely full of twisty mountain roads. We started out at an old coal mining town called Nuttallburg. To get there we had to travel about 5 miles down this one lane road to the bottom of the mountain. Thankfully we didn’t meet any other cars coming up because…
We had another long-ish day of driving. We took the scenic route rather than the interstates, and it was quite pretty driving through the mountains. There was only one twisting mountain road today, thankfully. We took a brief detour to the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, which turned out to…
After a lovely breakfast at our hotel, we drove over to the Harper’s Ferry National Park. We got in a short (not very interesting) hike from the visitor’s center to the Lower Town, then wandered around the historical buildings for a while. It’s certainly a beautiful spot, where the Shenandoah…
It was really nice to get home yesterday. Road trips are fun but after a while, you just want your own bed. We covered 11 states, and just a hair under 3400 miles. We’ve both concluded we’re never driving to Florida again because it’s just a seriously boring drive. 95…