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/April 1, 2018Weather: 60s and sunny to 77 and sunnyStates: South Carolina to North CarolinaCity: Folly Beach to Raleigh... read more
Easter hunt
Even the big kids
Easter bunny pooped on the chair


March 31, 2018Weather: 60s and sunny and breezyStates: South CarolinaCity: Folly Beach... read more
View out back
Another jelly


March 30, 2018 Weather: 60s sunny early morning then drizzly all day States: South Carolina City: Folly Beach Miles: 0 miles Hours Driving: 0 Hotel: Last Stop Morocco Food: Pancakes, toast, coffee. Light food all day for Lent. Kids got a cheese pizza by the slice in the afternoon. Spaghtti marinara dinner with salad at the house. Sites: Beach Combing and Tide Pool searching Books: Folily Beach novel (Paul reading it. A book he found here. He is almost done.) Gas: 0 Bodies of water: 1 Atlantic Ocean It has been a wonderfully lazy beach day. My eyes opened at 657 to a pink light coming in. I got up, made my coffee and sat out on the deck and watched the sun rise. Beautiful. It was warm this morning. I sat out there typing my ... read more
Sleeping Meemies


March 29, 2018 Weather: 78/80 in Savannah and 70/75 in Folly States: Georgia City: Savannah Miles: 117 miles Hours Driving: 2 hrs 18 min Hours Walking: 4 Hotel: Fairfield Suites Marriott Food: free Marriott breakfast, Smith Brother’s Butcher Shop, Cha Bella, Walls BBQ, Zunzi’s, Our Daily Bread Cafe, Nuts About Savannah and Leopold’s Ice Cream- Folly Beach- Folly Crab Shack and Dolce Banana Icecream Sites: City of Savannah, Savannah Taste Experience Books: Gas: 1 Bodies of water: 4 Well Today was an amazing day. We love Savannah. What a beautiful city everywhere you go. There is an old charm. The streets are line with charming historic (and haunted) homes dotted with little restaurants that surround the many squares throughout the city. The squares are similar to the squares in Europe only smaller like a little park. ... read more
Streets of Savannah
Streets of Savannah
Waiting for food tour

North America » United States » Georgia » Savannah March 28th 2018

March 28, 2018 States: West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina City: Beckley, WV Miles: 460 miles Hours: 7 hours 43 minutes Hotel: Fairfield Suites Marriott Food: free Marriott breakfast, sandwiches in the car, The Shrimp Factory Sites: Big Walker Landing Books: To Catch a Thief (Elizabeth) Jurassic Park (Matthew) Gas: 1 Toenail clippings: 10 While driving on Tuesday night, I happened to talk to my sister-in-love, Missy, and she said she was only two hours from Savannah. They live in Jacksonville. Jokingly, but hopeful, I said, “why don‘t you meet us?” She said yes! I was so excited. I did not tell anyone else in the car that she and my brother were coming. Paul had been saying I should ask them but I felt bad because we were only staying one night and we ... read more
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North America » United States » Michigan March 26th 2018

I have been planning this trip to the Southeast coast (or Mid-Atlantic states) for months now. We have been to 41 states so far and this is our 6th road trip. This will make 45 states. We have one more big road trip California bound including Hawaii. Our finale is Alaska. This trip, we will be visiting West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington DC. All but Georgia are new states. We went to Atlanta but I wanted the kids to see the coast of Georgia, too. We are going to Savannah. We are taking this trip over Spring Break. We decided the weather isn’t as hot as in August though we could have the other extreme...snow! And, by the way, I have had enough of that. The weather at this time of ... read more

North America » United States » Michigan » Birmingham August 12th 2017

Here it is in numbers. Pretty neat to look at. 15 days 4162 miles 78 hours 55 minutes in the car 4 new states 13 states total 4 Big Cities 7 State Capitals 12 different attractions (historic, natural or amusement) 15 different restaurants. 2 picnics 1 cat 4 whales 6 antelopes 1 seal Lots of birds Millions of tiny flies 100s of squashed bugs 5 friends gallons of gas. 9 different beds per persons 6 Marriott 1 uncle brick 1 aunt Marne 3 cousins 4 ski resorts 1 condo 1 houseboat 3 hikes 1 active volcano 2 lava tubes 7 home cooked meals 5 pool 2 Lakes 2 boats 1 ocean 4 movies 4 by on tape 140 bottle of water 5 minute rainy drives 2 farmers markets 2 pizzas 30 pairs of dirty underwear 1 ... read more
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North America » United States » Illinois » Naperville August 11th 2017

August 8, 2017 Weather: 74 and sunny driving through Wyoming, 81 Naperville Hours Driving: 7 hours 18 min States Drive Thru: Nebraska Iowa and Illinois Miles: 496 Restaurants: Movies: Dumb and Dumber Games: Books: Dunkirk (Matt), Bow Wow (Bee) Hotel: Mike and Marne's bed and breakfast Well, we had a choice today to drive all the way home and get home around 10 pm or stop through Naperville to see Mike and Marne and the kids. We would spend the night if we were welcome. We contacted them to see if it would be too much trouble since they are getting Emily ready to go to University of Missouri on Saturday. And, Mike just had shoulder surgery and it might be a hassle to have us. We get it. I don't think they'd ever say no. ... read more
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North America » United States » Nebraska » Lincoln August 10th 2017

August 8, 2017 Weather: 74 and sunny driving through Wyoming, 70s Nebraska Hours Driving: 12 hours States Drive Thru: Utah and Wyoming and Nebraska Miles: 860 miles Restaurants: Tasty BBQ Movies: Games: Books: Dunkirk (Matt), Bow Wow (Bee), Woof (Ben) Hotel: Fairfiedld inn As we make our way home from Utah, we climb mountain roads and descend into valleys. The landscape changes at every curve causing me to wonder why it is so different yet so close together. Green jagged mountains, strange hill-like mountains with little vegetation, mounds of sandcastle-like formations, piles of broken rock, red rock, layered rock as if we are driving through a dried up ocean floor and rock that makes you wonder how it came to be the odd shape or formation balancing on the precipice of crushing our car. Then, flatlands ... read more
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North America » United States » Utah » Park City August 8th 2017

Make sure you are scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page on the blog to see all of the pictures. I post at least 20 pictures the day. Today we started out slowly. We had breakfast and then went down to Park city main street to have a look around. Cute little town. You can tell that it's a high-end area due to the stores. Has to be amazingly bustling in the wintertime. I'd love to see it. It is beautiful in the summertime, too. Lots of restaurants and little shops. It took us a while to find Park city village where the kids activities are. Apparently we drove right past it at one point. How we missed it I have no idea. At one point, we ended up at another ski ... read more
Looking Down from Loft
Lasagna dinner
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