Since our night was so quiet and peaceful, it was a bit of a surprise opening the RV door in the morning and realizing that the rest stop was filled with people! We soon headed to Gulfport, a city that sits on the Gulf of Mexico. We were there on the Monday of a long […]
We'd stayed overnight next to a shrimping boat marina, but surprisingly it wasn't too busy in the morning (unless most shrimpers had left well before dawn and we'd just slept through it). We left the rural setting near Dauphin Island in Alabama, arriving soon in Mobile, a port city that's the second most-populous city in […]
The Florida Panhandle is in the northwest of Florida: a narrow strip of land with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, known for its beaches. We woke up and went for a walk around Corinne Jones Park that we'd parked next to overnight, but pee-ew!! Some poor wild animal like a raccoon must have […]
Day 206 was a lot of driving. While we had arrived in Georgia the night prior, we still had a long, long drive to get to Atlanta. We arrived in the early evening at a park in East Atlanta, in what seemed like a really nice and safe neighborhood. There were young kids running around, […]
We got up hoping to see Rob and Estelle before they left the house to say thank you and goodbye, but alas, we were too late to see them! So we sent a virtual message to Rob to thank him for his hospitality and letting us stay with them over the last couple of days. […]
Within an hours' drive from Knoxville, we arrived in the town of Sevierville, which bills the Smoky Mountain Knife Works as one of its top attractions. It's the world's largest knife showroom and store (spanning 108,000 square feet, or over 10,000 square meters!), and more than 1.5 million people visit each year! So they can […]
Good morning, Cracker Barrel! After struggling and slightly stressing to find a place to stop for the night, and feeling paranoid about our surroundings, it was all good come morning. And, it's getting into fall! After having yogurt with fruit and granola for breakfast pretty much every day for the last few months, it was […]
Sleeping not far from a cemetery is definitely quiet, and we didn't have any train noise near us either! Rather, the din in the morning was from city worker's gardening around us, using a whipper snipper (they're called weed whackers in America?) to hack at the grass next to us. Greensboro, North Carolina We'd planned […]
When we woke up at the Cracker Barrel parking lot the next morning, we had a camper community surrounding us, with quite a few folks joining us overnight. We had to go back on ourselves for about a mile and a half, where we visited J. Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, a seventh-generation salt-making business. While West […]
We were about 30 miles (less than 50 kilometers) southeast of Columbus, and our first stop in the city was in the suburbs, stopping at the Watlao Buddhamamakaram Buddhist Temple, a Laotian temple that was built in 2009. The grounds were empty when we arrived, except for a lady who arrived at the same time […]
When we'd been driving eastward after visiting Columbus yesterday, we noticed a lot of signs for Amish furniture, and it occurred to us that we may be near Amish Country. While Pennsylvania has the largest Amish population of any US state (Lancaster County is the oldest and one of the biggest Amish settlements), Ohio is […]
After the day we spent in the Ohio countryside among the Amish community, today we were headed to the bustling city of Pittsburgh, well-known for its heritage in steel and industry. What a huge difference from one day to another. It took us about an hour to get to Pittsburgh, crossing the border from Ohio […]
Schenley Park was a hive of activity the following morning, with parents pushing their children in strollers, friends out jogging, and people driving around the city. It was so hectic that when Lisette opened the RV door to take Sheila for a morning walk, she bumped into two people walking with picnic chairs slung over […]
We slept in! Maybe the trains were more disruptive overnight after all, since we were right next to the railway tracks. Or maybe we needed to catch up on sleep regardless, as travel can be tiring at times! Our late start meant that we didn't arrive at St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral until lunchtime (but we […]
The weather had cleared up the next morning, and we were greeted by clear blue skies and sun, strolling along the pier and small beach. Sheila enjoyed the stroll as well, getting sand in between her toes, although she was too quick for Lisette and managed to chomp and swallow something on the sand (a […]
In the morning there was...fog! After having more than a lifetime's worth of it from living in San Francisco, we admittedly haven't missed it at all on this trip. It's probably the first time we've seen fog since being in northern California, making for a cool and mystical early morning walk with Sheila through the […]
Sheila may have been absolutely stoked to arrive at our friends Ben and Elisabeth's house yesterday, but little did she know that the next day we'd be giving her a well-overdue bath! Sheila hates baths, but we had ample room to wash and dry her in the backyard. Washing Sheila is a 2-person job, because […]
We had stayed at the Adirondacks Welcome Center overnight, at what turned out to be a cool rest stop and visitor center! From the outside, it looks like a winter chalet, with a kid's playground, picnic tables, and grass area with ample space to walk Sheila. Inside, the winter chalet aesthetic continues, with high ceilings […]
Since we'd all been woken up in the middle of the night, none of us had had the best nights' sleep, but we put this behind us, focusing on seeing Vermont. Our first stop, however, proved to be a challenge--we'd marked to check out the Burlington Earth Clock, 14 granite stones that are arranged to […]
This morning was the first time we'd experienced temperatures in the single digits (Celsius) for months! Sure, it was 9 degrees Celsius, but we could fill the chill in the air! We drove through beautiful fall foliage, before arriving at The Mount Washington Cog Railway. "The Cog" goes up 3 climate zones to the top […]
By the time we were ready to leave the Walmart the next morning, some of our fellow overnight campers had already left, likely hoping to get an early start to visit Acadia National Park. We arrived at the park fairly early as well, but once we showed up at the Hulls Cove Visitor Center and […]