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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. It’s 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 didn’t 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 didn’t charge a pet fee. When we walked out to the parking lot this morning, we witnessed something completely out of the...
Days 149-150: Georgia & Florida
Day 149 (10/27/14): Brunswick, GA | St. Augustine, FL After having to wait nearly a week, the day has finally come for us to take our RV in to get the leak fixed! We towed our travel trailer to Florida and handed the keys over to the Camping World in St. Augustine. Dropping our trailer off at 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...
Days 144-145: Georgia & Florida
Day 144 (10/22/14): Brunswick, GA | Jacksonville, FL We finally made it to Florida! With no state income tax, we wanted to seriously consider Florida as our next place to live. For this reason, we were planning on visiting several major cities in the Sunshine State. The first city on our list was...
Days 142-143: Georgia & South Carolina
Day 142 (10/20/14): Savannah, GA | Hilton Head Island, SC Even though we were done with Charleston, we weren't quite finished seeing South Carolina yet. We had heard great things about Hilton Head Island, SC, and wanted to visit the area. With the island being only about 30 miles from Savannah,...
Days 140-141: South Carolina & Georgia
Day 140 (10/18/14): Charleston, SC | Wadmalaw Island, SC Remember how much I like tea? Well, we discovered America's only tea garden! On Wadmalaw Island, SC, is the Charleston Tea Plantation, which is also North America's only commercialized tea plantation where tea is grown and manufactured. I...
Day 139: South Carolina (Part 3)
Day 139 (10/17/14): Charleston, SC | Mt. Pleasant, SC After driving through the Historic Ashley River Plantation District yesterday, we were looking forward to touring one of the many plantations in the Charleston area. Out of all the available options, we decided to see Boone Hall Plantation in...
Days 137-138: South Carolina (Part 2)
Day 137 (10/15/14): Myrtle Beach, SC | Charleston, SC Well, Myrtle Beach was not the glamorous destination we had been hoping for, so we left today. We're not done with South Carolina yet though. The city we were most interested in seeing was Charleston, and that's where we're going today! As we...
Days 135-136: South Carolina (Part 1)
Day 135 (10/13/14): Myrtle Beach, SC While in Myrtle Beach, we were actually staying right at the beach. This morning, we took advantage of our beachside location and drank coffee overlooking the ocean. After living in Southern California for five years, we had been missing the beach. Even though...
Days 132-134: North Carolina & South Carolina
Day 132 (10/10/14): Raleigh, NC | Kill Devil Hills, NC | Buxton, NC Originally we were planning on heading south from Raleigh, NC, down to Myrtle Beach, SC. But, we've learned on this trip that plans change frequently. Based on suggestions from several different people, we decided to take a slight...
Days 130-131: Virginia & North Carolina
Day 130 (10/8/14): Richmond, VA | Raleigh, NC Having our fill of Richmond, we were ready to leave Virginia. Since we were working our way down South, we'd be going back through North Carolina and wanted to check out Raleigh. While driving, we saw numerous cotton fields as well as billboards for...
Days 127-129: Maryland & Virginia
Day 127 (10/5/14): Baltimore, MD | Annapolis, MD While driving to our campground in College Park, MD, we passed by Baltimore. Our friend Susan from Lake Michigan had told us she was surprised by how much she enjoyed Baltimore. Based on her recommendation, we decided to go back and actually...
