Saint Louis, Missouri
(She’s hard to see, but that is Paula’s head at the bottom of the featured picture.) Last night we experienced a new form of severe weather: a derecho! A derecho is a widespread, long-lived straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. (source: Wikipedia) We had driven thru some thunderstorms yesterday […]
Evansville, Indiana
Well, whether we earned dessert or not, we each had one at dinner last night in Knoxville. We ate at Chesapeake’s, recommended to us as the best seafood restaurant in town. It was like déjà vu seeing all the maps, buoys, and mounted trophy fish that you might see in a restaurant in Annapolis! We […]
Knoxville, Tennessee
We spent yesterday afternoon and all of today exploring Knoxville, our first city on the western leg of our journey to California. Blessedly, the humidity we have in Florida is not present here and it has been sunny and cool (low 80’s) with a breeze. Knoxville has a beautiful City Hall complex, with courtyards, gardens, […]
Lake Okeechobee, Florida
The featured picture shows our campsite in the background. Ours is the small camper over Paula’s right shoulder backed up right to the edge of the creek. We just returned from our second camper adventure. We rented a 25’ Class C Winnebago out of Deerfield Park, Florida and drove to a campsite on North Lake […]
Mount Dora, Florida
We happened to see an advert for Mount Dora Florida’s 70th Annual Sailboat Regatta. About 90 miles West and South of St. Augustine, Mount Dora is a lakefront town of about 16,000 souls. It boasts 4385 acres of sparkling lake water as well as a tree and flower-lined downtown filled with eclectic and quirky shops and […]
Fort McCoy, Florida
Eager to try some “land cruising” after hearing about the adventures of Ellie and Jason, Kyle and Glenny, Lisa and Allen, we rented a 24-foot Class C RV for a 3 day trip. Our destination was the Fort McCoy KOA campground on Lake Oklawaha near the Ocala National Forest, about 80 miles away. We picked […]
Ian
C Ghost came through hurricane Ian in good shape with only a few scratches. Although Ian’s winds in the marina were stronger than those from the much more damaging hurricane Irma (2017), they came from the opposite direction. As it passed by us just offshore, Ian’s strongest winds were from the north to north-west which […]
Tennessee (Nashville, Chattanooga, Kingsport)
Once again, travel was easy from Missouri to Tennessee. We did have cloudy skies and experienced our first hard rain and thunderstorms (intermittent) for the first time in more than 10 weeks. Our destination was the home of Tommy’s youngest sister (mine too!) and her husband, Mike. We had enough time to make a short […]
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Today’s drive was 350 miles from one end of the state of Missouri to the other. It brought us through increasingly familiar-looking landscapes: Lush green grasses, stands of deciduous trees, with only episodic rock walls facing the highways to remind us of the mountains we have seen further west. Even more surprising after over 10 […]
Independence, Missouri
The first half of our drive today was all Nebraska farmland for as far as you could see. The road was straight and flat for more than 200 miles. We stopped for lunch at a local place called Valentino’s Italian Buffet. The parking lot was full so we knew it must be good. It was. […]