Category: Travel
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Highway 1 to Key West Jan 4-5, 2022
I had purchased a Gypsy Guide tour of the Florida Keys so we got up early and fired the guide up to head on down the Keys. The first stop turned out to be nearby right in Homestead. It was a large fruit stand with the memorable name “Robert is Here” and it had a…
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MIAMI Jan 1-3, 2022
For the first day of the new year the first thing we did was our semi-annual financial review. 2021 was another good year for us with our net worth growing over 9% after expenses. Despite all the money we spent over the course of 2021 our total financial net worth has continued to increase. I…
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Dec 29-31, 2021 Beach BBQ
After over a month in Orlando, we felt it was time to move along. We planned to go to Key West so we could complete a full journey down the eastern United States from the most northern point to the most southern point. However, things were certain to be crowded and expensive for the holiday…
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December in Orlando
Orlando has proven to be a good place to hang out for a while. The weather is warm and sunny. Spent six days visiting all four of Disney’s theme parks, even spending a couple of nights at the newly opened Marriott Swan Reserve Hotel which had Disney perks such as early entrance. We split the…
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Nov 22-29, 2021 We Got into a Car Accident!
We had planned to find an RV park in Orlando and stay for a month. We had travelled long and hard surfing the seasons going north for the summer and then back south for the fall and now we were about as south as we could get so it was time to take a break…
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Nov 17-21, 2021 Orlando!
St. Augustine was so cute that it deserved a second day so we returned in the morning and I took Olivia to the Colonial Quarter, a historical area with re-created colonial Spanish era buildings and tours. We arrived just as they opened so we were the only ones on the first tour of the day. …
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Nov 14-16, 2021 St. Augustine, Florida
In the morning we drove from into Jacksonville. We were early so we went to the Jax Beach Skatepark to hang out for the day. We did some homeschooling then Olivia got to do some skating before we went to meet our friends for dinner. We had met our friends Uriel, Michelle and Matthew in…
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Nov 11-13, 2021 Charleston, SC
It was time for a driving and cleanup day. We stopped off at a gas station to fill our water and drove about 4 hours to Lumberton, North Carolina. There is nothing special about Lumberton, it just happened to have a handy Walmart in it when it started getting dark and we stopped for the…
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Nov 8-10, 2021 Jamestown
From Mount Vernon we drove down to Jamestown. This was only about a 3 hour drive but between our usual late start and a bit of homework we didn’t get to Jamestown until late afternoon so we just went to a local park until it got dark before heading to a nearby Cracker Barrel for…
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Nov 6-7, 2021 Mount Vernon
After all the walking and learning in Washington DC we needed a rest day. We also had one more night left at the Greenbelt Campground so we drove out to get lunch and get groceries. We had emptied our fridge before going to DC since we knew we were going to be gone for several…