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This likely will be the last blog of this incredible cross-country adventure. We spent Wednesday morning in Jamestown, Virginia, and Thursday afternoon and evening in Gloucester, Virginia. We traveled north on Thursday with brief stops in Washington, D.C. and at the Great Falls National Park in McLean, Virginia. We ended the day in Reisterstown, Maryland,Continue reading “Days 48-49, October 27-28, 2021”

Our travels turned us north today from Durham, North Carolina into Virginia and ending in Williamsburg. We spent the afternoon walking around the colonial town and briefly onto the William and Mary campus. A number of the colonial buildings were closed, likely because of COVID. It would have been more disappointing if we had purchasedContinue reading “Day 47, October 26, 2021”

The first half of today was driving across North Carolina from Ashville to Winston-Salem to Greensboro and then Durham, all on I-40. We considered going into the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, but it was $96 each to tour the home and gardens and $76 just for the gardens. We opted to move on to DurhamContinue reading “Day 46, October 25, 2021”

As our trip winds down, our blog updates will also come near a conclusion. Today was fairly quiet, compared to what we’ve experienced the past seven weeks. We left our campground outside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and drove back up through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and stopped at Newfound Gap. It was early enough thatContinue reading “Day 45, October 24, 2021”

It was a frustrating day for us in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We were out and into the park just after 9 this morning and drove directly to Clingmans Dome near the center of the park road between Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. The parking lot was already overflowing with cars backingContinue reading “Day 44, October 23, 2021”

It was a day of great diversity. We started out by driving north from our campground north of Atlanta, into the mountains of Northern Georgia, into larger mountains in North Carolina, and then into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Beautiful overlooks throughout the Smokies, but when we drove out of the parkContinue reading “Day 43, October 22, 2021”

We spent a marvelous day at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, an incredible complex that is the third largest aquarium in the world behind newer ones in Singapore and China. Its variety of tanks and displays hold 11 million gallons of saltwater including the 6.3 million main tank which features two 26-foot whale sharks. TheContinue reading “Day 42, October 21, 2021”

A short blog to catch up from the past few days. We spent three days in Valrico, Florida, at the home of Carol’s sister and her husband, Janet and Buddy, and their new dog, Ruby. It was a time of relaxing, and enjoying time together while watching football and baseball. It took a while forContinue reading “Days 37-41, October 16-20, 2021”

On Thursday we left the Buccaneer State Park in Mississippi and drove east on I-10 into Alabama and then into Florida. In Alabama we saw the USS Alabama battleship and when we entered Florida, a Blue Angels jet welcomed us at the Visitor’s Center. Before we left Mississippi, Carol took a walk along the GulfContinue reading “Days 35-36, October 14-15, 2021”

We traveled 429 miles from Kady, Texas (western suburb of Houston) to Louisiana and then on into Mississippi on Tuesday and checked into the Buccaneer State Park Campground on the Gulf of Mexico. We originally had reservations at the KOA in New Orleans, but they canceled our reservation because the campground is still being usedContinue reading “Days 33-34, October 11-12, 2021”