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Before heading back to work I took a few days at home to unload the trailer, do 10 loads of wash, clean up the house and visit with family, oh and cry (I am so excited to see my friends, but getting back to reality is hard to face). Nate was fortunate enough to have two and half weeks left to get things in order. After visiting with friends we decided to post some common questions, but if you have more please send a comment. Fun Facts Our total trip was almost eight weeks long starting on June 11, 2016 and returning home on August 4, 2016. Once leaving Florida we drove in 18 states. We drove about 10,000 miles, costing $2,128.13 for fuel, stopping 66 times for fuel. With only one day without any driving ... read more

As I said in the previous blog we really scored at this campground, our view is amazing and everything is so nice here. We drove through town, purchased some bait, visited the bottle house, the world's smallest police station which was a telephone booth (see pics), and saw Crooked River Lighthouse from the outside. Once we returned we all went to the beach to hang out and fish. The sand was surprisingly white and powdery. The best part is since it is a private beach you are able to bring your pet. Daisy was ready to come home at dark since the bugs were driving her crazy, but Nate could not bring himself to leave the beach. He caught so many nice size fish and a sting ray too, but unfortunately none were keepers. Nate finally ... read more

Today when we woke up it was raining heavily so we went to the front desk of our campground (Yogi Nashville) to look into staying another night which we thought would be no problem since the park was not even half full, but they would not allow us to stay another night at $35 (passport rate) they were going to charge $70 so we decided to pack up and move on. The drive itself was not too bad once we got out of Nashville, but we did see multiple accidents. I would like to say that was due to the rain, but I believe that some of that is just normal in Nashville, we are so glad to be out of there, if you can avoid the area with your travel trailer I would. We drove ... read more

We embarked from our three days of relaxation headed to our next destination of Nashville, TN. we took I-57 to I-24, just before I-24 there was road congestion so we got off I-57, got gas and took a detour on IL-37 to I-24. We were glad that we were on the detour since a storm came upon us that would have caused us to get off the interstate. During our drive on I-24 we crossed over into Kentucky where we finally were able to stop at a Chick-Fil-A, the first in over a month. The drive overall was easy, but had an abundance of semis driving under the speed limit. Today we are camping at Camp Jellystone in Nashville (passport $35/night) they have tons of activities, pool, Wi-Fi and cable. The last time we camped at ... read more

Today we headed back up to I-90 which is a nice easy drive and continued on I-90 to Badlands. The plan was to camp nearby, but the day did not go as planned because Nate thought it would be a good idea to get ahead and take the trailer into Badlands National Park with us and continue driving after. At Badlands I got to see my babies again, prairie dogs. My cute little chunky babies were peeking out of so many different mounds over the park, I wanted them all. We did not get to see much of the actual Badlands because Nate got in a hurry since it was getting late and we still had 3.5 hours more to drive, but what we did see was beautiful. The land was diverse with hills on one ... read more