Georgia Veterans State Park, Cordele, Georgia

I think I’ll just say, stay here! If you’re lucky enough to be in the area. It’s a beautiful and well-kept park, with campsites by a river, hiking and a veterans museum with indoor and outdoor exhibits (tanks, aircraft, etc.). Another reason. Cordelia’s Restaurant at the Lake Blackshear Resort, which is within the park. And [...]

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Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia

Today, it’s a peaceful place, a green rolling hill dotted with a few monuments and markers. But knowing what happened here in 1864-5, imagining what those human beings endured, the hellish conditions, will haunt me for a very long time. 45,000 Union soldiers were confined in a 26-acre stockade during the fourteen months this Civil [...]

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Fort McAllister State Historic Park, GA

A small civil war museum, the best preserved earthwork fortifications of the Civil War, great birding and nature hikes – and a campsite that was so quiet (even when the park was full on the weekend) that we slept until past 9:00. Our campsite bordered the salt marshes (#8) and it lulled us into a [...]

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Happy Anniversary at Fort McAllister State Historic Park

It’s our wedding anniversary today, and the trip we’re on is turning out to be very similar to our honeymoon. Now, now – let me explain. Thirty-three years ago, our honeymoon trip to Guatemala was cancelled at the last minute due to the devastating earthquake of 1976. We hastily rebooked to an island called Tobago [...]

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The Biltmore Estate, Asheville N.C.

We pay our $33 admission (if you go, print out your own tickets for $27 on their website), rent audio headsets for $8 (optional, but well worth it) and begin our tour of the “largest home in America”. We start walking, our mouths fall open, our heads rotate to observe whatever it is our audio [...]

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Museum of Appalachia, Norris TN

Friendly goats and sheep greeted us from behind their primitive wooden fences as we pulled into this living history museum. I felt we were off to a good start. Things only got better. What a treasure. Yesterday we were at a small state park (Norris Dam) museum that had a very limited but interesting collection. [...]

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Norris Dam State Park, TN

We were planning on spending only one night here. There’s a museum in the park that I wanted to see, but didn’t dare hope was open, so I was content with the beauty and no culture (aside from what we bring with us ). Then, the ranger who came around to register us last night [...]

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Not a car – from Ohio to Tennessee

Dick can actually drive this thing! And in some really wicked crosswinds too, good to know. It was a short drive for us today, compared to other car trips. But, as we’re learning, this is not a car. We don’t wash wine glasses in our car. And we don’t make a fire and cook hot [...]

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Maiden voyage

It’s been 24 hours since we pulled out of the dealership in Dayton (at 3:00 in the afternoon, after having spent the day there – with nervous excitement building to almost unbearable levels). In that short amount of time we’ve managed to get lost for over an hour trying to find near-by Caeser Creek State [...]

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Pre-delivery

As soon as we pick up our new 2009 Navion 24J, this will become our travel blog. Hope to hit the road at the end of February/beginning of March! Stay tuned .

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