Month: May 2019
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Jackson and the Petrified Forest
Thunderstorms overnight did let water into the window, but towels kept it from running down the inside of the wall. As the sun rose at the Gator Ranch, it revealed pooling water in the parking lot. The waters of the bayou were creeping a little too close to us for comfort. A plus for self-contained…
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Alabama Gators
On the road at 0830, we left Torryea behind in the rain and headed towards an alligator ranch in Mississippi. Moving west, we ran into stopped traffic outside the little town of Ebro. Turned out to be for a bicycle race, so we just relaxed and waited twenty minutes for the last of the cyclists…
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Capital Tour, Goodwood and Torreya
After an early morning stroll on the boardwalk we left Manatee Springs heading for Tallahassee. The 128 mile morning drive was very different from South Florida. Traffic was minimal and there were thirty mile stretches without a gas stations or store. Arriving in Tallahassee, we were fortunate to find shaded on-street parking. The Historic Florida…
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A New Adventure Begins
This marks the beginning of a trip that will take us from Florida, up the spine of the continent in the Rocky Mountains and around the North Shore of Lake Superior over four months before returning home to North Carolina. The map shows a few of the places we stopped since turning on tracking in…
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