After a fun 12 days of having Will and Charlotte visit, it
was time to get ready for our summer trip.
After 3 very busy days of packing and getting the house ready for a
hurricane that we hope will not come, we were ready to go. We are taking our road bikes and our mountain bikes. The road bikes ride inside the RV.
Our goal is to spend the night in each of the lower 48
states in the RV. This trip will take us
to New England and into Canada. To make
the traveling easier we will try to drive around 250 miles or less per
day. We broke that rule on our first day
out…oh well, we will do better.
We left home on Thursday, June 21, 2018 and drove 332 miles
to Brunswick, GA where we stayed at Coastal
Georgia RV Park. It is a beautiful
park with a nice pool, pull through sites, convenient to I95 and they will let
you wash your RV. The coach was in
serious need of a bath. We enjoyed the
pool. Wayne washed half the coach on
Thursday night and the rest on Friday morning before we got on the road.
Day 2, 6/22 We drove
353 miles to Albemarle to visit Dad.
Another long day on the road but we know the route well. Thankfully the traffic was light so we had an
easy trip. We had a short visit with Dad
and made a batch of cookies to tide him over until our return trip.
Day 3, 6/23 , We said good bye to Dad and headed to Crosswinds Campground,
in Jordan Lake State Park near Apex, NC. This park is very near where Brian and his family live. Brian, Almendra, Caleb and Amelia joined us
at the lake for a 2 hour swim. The kids
LOVE the water. Amelia smiled the whole
time she was in the water. I was enjoying
the water too so I did not a get any in the water pictures. We then went over to Brian and
Almendra’s to have dinner and play Dominion.
Day 4, 6/24. Our
morning was a shopping trip to find an alligator float. Another family had an alligator and it looked like so much fun we had to get one. And of course we had to get the pink flamingo ! They will look great in our pool and the kids loved them. Brian and family joined
us for a picnic followed by another swim in the lake. The campground has it’s own beach which is
clean and sandy and the perfect place for a family outing. After our swim we again played games with
Brian and Almendra, this time it was Isle in the Skye.
The walk to the beach
Snacks after a fun swim
Day 5, 6/25. Monday
was another travel day. We did better
and only drove 225 miles, from Apex, NC to Williamsburg, VA. We stayed at the Williamsburg Camppark. A dear friend from high school, Judy Powell
Wood, lives in Williamsburg. She took on
the challenge of fixing us a vegan dinner.
She did a great job! We spent the
evening catching up on each others lives, talking about traveling and
reminiscing.
Day 6, 6/26 We rode our bikes 41.3 miles on the Virginia Capital Trail. This trip was from Mile marker 0 to 20, which is the
Charles City Court House. The trail goes
from the Colonial Capital of Williamsburg to the Virginia State Capital of
Richmond. It is a very nice paved rail
trail. We will go back another time to do the rest of the trail. Judy once again did an excellent job
preparing dinner.
Mile 0
Mile 20
Day 7, 6/27 It was time to do some exploring. We drove down the Colonial Parkway. Wayne used to ride his bike on it 40 years
ago. We decided it was too bumpy and too
busy for us to ride our bikes on it. The
docent at the Yorktown
Battlefield Visitors Center did a great job of helping us understand the
Battle of Yorktown and everything that happened there. Our walk through the Village of Yorktown and
along the water was a contrast of old and new.
Day 8, 6/28 Wayne and
I had both done tours of Colonial Williamsburg, so we decided to just walk around and take pictures of what we could find that was picture worthy. Recently we finished watching the Netflix
series “Turn”, which was all filmed in this area including Colonial
Williamsburg. It was fun to pick out the
spots they had used. Our afternoon was spent playing true tourists by going to
the pottery and the outlet mall.
Taxi/Uber
Bus
Street Band
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