Day 184 (12/1/14): New Orleans, LA Today is the 6-month anniversary of our trip! And what better place to be celebrating at than New Orleans?! We got an early start to the day and revisited the French Quarter. The streets were eerily quiet in the morning, a stark contrast from the lively night...
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Days 182-183: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana
Day 182 (11/29/14): Pensacola Beach, FL For our final day in the Pensacola area, we didnโt venture too far from our campground in Pensacola Beach, FL. We were staying at the Pensacola Beach RV Resort located on Santa Rosa Island, the barrier island of Pensacola Beach. The RV resort sits on the...
Days 180-181: more Florida
Day 180 (11/27/14): Orlando, FL | Pensacola, FL | Gulf Breeze, FL If our trailer hadnโt developed a colossal leak, we would have been done traveling by now. This is one of the major life lessons Iโve learned on this journey. Iโm a hardcore planner, but Iโve realized that you can only plan so much...
Days 159-176: South Carolina
Days 159-176 (11/6/14-11/23/14): Hilton Head Island, SC At this point, we had visited as many places in Florida as we could before we would be working our way back towards the West Coast. With our RV still in the shop, we decided to set up camp in a vacation rental in Hilton Head Island, SC, while...
Days 157-158: Florida & South Carolina
Day 157 (11/4/14): Tampa, FL | St. Augustine, FL Staying in hotels with the pups has officially gotten old. Itโs time to push the pause button for our time in Florida and hunker down in Hilton Head Island, SC, as we continue waiting for our RV to be repaired. At this point, our home-on-wheels has...
Days 155-156: Florida (Part 3)
Day 155 (11/2/14): Naples, FL | St. Petersburg, FL | Tampa, FL Since we didnโt arrive in Naples until late last night, we wanted to explore the city before we headed up to Tampa. The first place we came across was The Village on Venetian Bay. The waterfront shopping center contained fine dining...
Days 153-154: Florida (Part 2)
Day 153 (10/31/14): Fort Lauderdale, FL | Key West, FL While we were staying in Bar Harbor, ME, the camp host at the RV park told us that he spends his summers in Maine and winters in Key West, FL. We had always been intrigued by Key West, thinking the destination was a type of tropical paradise....
Days 151-152: Florida (Part 1)
Day 151 (10/29/14): Fort Lauderdale, FL | Miami, FL Due to minimal options for pet-friendly hotels in Fort Lauderdale, we ended up staying at the Westin last night since they didnโt charge a pet fee. When we walked out to the parking lot this morning, we witnessed something completely out of the...
Days 146-148: Georgia
Day 146 (10/24/14): Brunswick, GA | Savannah, GA One of the many (and most important) lessons we've learned from being on the road and living full-time in an RV is that you can only plan so much before fate steps in with her own plans (while laughing ominously, shaking her head and saying "Silly...