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Our Nation’s Capitol, Washington DC. This really is an amazing city. You can’t help feeling a sense of pride when you visit. Yes, we are angry at our government, but it’s our government. Yes, we want changes, but it’s a system that still works even at it’s worst. Yes, it’s dysfunctional but it’s our dysfunctional family. I was only here for an evening, as I had to fly to Portland for an All Hands Red Giant Company meeting the following day. So I had to make the best of my less then 24 hours so we took a night tour of the…

We are staying at American Heritage RV Park in Williamsburg, VA. What is here is Colonial Williamsburg. Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of a historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Colonial Williamsburg’s 301-acre (122 ha) Historic Area includes buildings from the eighteenth century (during part of which the city was the capital of Colonial Virginia), as well as 17th-century, 19th-century, Colonial Revival structures and more recent reconstructions. The Historic Area is an interpretation of a colonial American city, with exhibits of dozens of restored or re-created buildings related to its colonial and…

So here we are in the Outer Banks of North Carolina at a little place called Refuge on Roanoke Island. It is located in the fishing Village of Wanchese. Not a bad view to wake up to. Friday night we drove to Duck to stroll on the boardwalk. It ended up being a very nice evening with a light rain. We had an amazing Manhattan and dinner at Blue Point, which is at the end of the boardwalk. On the way back I got some pretty cool night shots. On Saturday we drove to Cape Hatteras to see the lighthouse…

Caleb and I visited Charleston, SC last year before we went on a cruise with Jenn and Earle in August. The only thing new we saw this time was the Morris Island Lighthouse which stands in the Charleston Harbor north of Folley Beach. We stayed at James Island County Park where they were having an Outdoor Festival. They also had this really great dog park that Pippin only got to enjoy on the first day we were there due to the festival.

“We tread over the past as if it were merely yesterday.” Savannah, a coastal Georgia city, is separated from South Carolina by the Savannah River. It’s known for its manicured parks, horse-drawn carriages and ornate antebellum architecture. Its cobblestoned historic district is filled with squares and parks like Forsyth Park, shaded by magnolia blossoms and oak trees covered with Spanish moss. The fountain at the north end of Forsyth Park is made of cast iron, was ordered from a Sears-Roebuck catalog and added to the park in 1858. It is reminiscent of fountains found in Paris and Peru. Parisian urban planning was centered on…

Back to Mayport Travel Day, and we’re headed back to Jacksonville and Hanna Park. It was a pretty short drive. As we neared Atlantic Beach, (going over a bridge) I looked into my side mirror and gasped, “I think that we just lost something off the roof of the trailer, Caleb! Maybe one of the air conditioners. I saw it go flying back onto the road!”. I pulled off to the side once across the bridge to find we had lost a side window! All that was left were the two arm brackets and the upper hinge. The window was gone! After we calmed down, we realized…

We decided to hang out in Kissimmee for the morning, because we heard there was a big storm moving down the state. We didn’t leave until after 1:00 pm.  The weather wasn’t bad at all, but the traffic getting out of Orlando was horrendous so we didn’t pulled into Anastasia State Park and got our space (#58 on Sand Dollar Way) until early evening. The Park was very nice, very lush, like Hanna Park. We got everything set up and then drove into St. Augustine. I had found a cocktail place called the Ice Plant. It was a converted ice house, we ended…