Category: USA travel 2021
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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…
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Nov 4-5, 2021 Our RV is DEAD!
Holly was tired and wanted to spend the day working on her travel video so Olivia and I went out by ourselves. We went to the National Art Gallery where we saw many fine works of art including Picasso’s Self Portrait. I was kind of amazed that everything was just hung up on the wall…
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Nov 2-3, 2021 Washington DC
We woke up and caught an Uber to the Holiday Inn. The Uber was surprisingly inexpensive at $27 for the 45 minute trip. By the time we checked into the hotel it was lunch time and raining so we went to a Korean place right next to the hotel called the Rice Bar which had…