Dec 28-30In heavy rain, we leave Orlando and head west to the Florida Panhandle.  We stop briefly in Panama City and Navarre at the Gulf beaches.  We use one of the rain days for a good visit to the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum.  Lots of aircraft to see here from WWI to WWII, as well as […]

Here is the link to our latest video efforts – New England and New York all our Travel Videos can be found here. Dec 20-27We have been hanging out in Orlando for Christmas.  After Universal Studios, the weather turned ugly!  We had torrential downpours and a tornado touched down about 100 miles from us!  Thankfully the weather cleared […]

Dec 12-14 – A stop at Bahai Honda State Park which was hard hit by Hurricane Irma in 2017.  Parts are open now, but the beach is not what it was.  The water is still beautiful turquoise.  Key West is an eclectic jumble of shops, bars, locals, and tourists everywhere on foot, bike, or scooter.  […]

Dec 6 – We spend the day in our brand-new loaner Mercedes Benz SUV as the motorhome gets a much-needed oil change, fuel filter, and tire rotation.  We take it to the Mercedes Benz dealership to keep our warranty and it is very, very expensive! Dec 7 finds us in Naples visiting the beach.  We […]

Nov 29 – We visit the Yulee Sugar Mill Historic Site in Crystal River.  The ruins of a sugar cane mill include rollers to crush the cane and large cooking kettles to boil off sugar and molasses.  There are also orange trees here, but the oranges are very, very sour. In the afternoon, we stop at […]

Nov 24 – We visit Mission San Luis where Spaniards established a mission to convert native people to Christianity.  This mission also provided trade opportunities and a workforce to help support the outpost of St. Augustine.  The Spaniards lived in traditional homes, while the Apalachee people lived in round thatched houses.  The Apalachee council house […]

Nov 20-22 – The Spanish influence is stunning in St. Augustine.  This is America’s oldest city and has the oldest everything – the oldest house, schoolhouse, and oldest street.  A very walkable city with cobblestones and Spanish/Moorish architecture in the historic buildings. The Flagler College is beautiful.  It was once a hotel built by Henry […]

Nov 15-16 – Historical Savannah, Georgia, surprisingly is much different than Charleston, although not that far in distance.  Savannah has old brick/stucco buildings with decorative iron railings and balconies.  The style is not the antebellum style of Charleston.  There is a huge shipping port here.  Savannah has lots of town squares full of camellias, azaleas, […]

Nov 9-10  The weather has been rainy, sometimes torrential in the last week.  We did visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, enjoying the last of the fall colour in this area, but it was a drizzly day.  It has also been below freezing some of the nights in these parts of Tennessee. […]

Nov 5-6Two enjoyable days spent in Memphis.  The first day we spent visiting Graceland.  $95 for us both and we were on the basic tour.  A very slick operation it was, with a shuttle bus to hustle us across to the mansion for an audio tour.  The house was not as large as we expected, […]