This is just a quick recap of the entire trip. We just did a recap of month 1, so we’ll adjust those figures to include the additional time we spent traveling since then.
We departed home in New York on December 19, 2018. It was 18 degrees, clear & cold that morning. We returned home earlier than planned, arriving home on January 27, 2019. There was plenty of snow on the ground with some ice on the roads and our driveway. It was 22 degrees that night & clear, with more snow expected in two days followed by record-low temperatures. We got as far as Edisto Island, South Carolina before turning around and coming home. The entire journey lasted one month, one week, and two days.
We traveled 1,983 miles in the RV during Trip #5. We stayed at 10 campgrounds in 5 states: two in Maryland, one in Virginia, four in North Carolina, two in South Carolina, and one in New Jersey. Highlights of this trip, not in any particular order, have been: birding on the causeway walk in SC & birding at Kiptopeke State Park in VA; kayaking at Indiantown Creek in NC; biking in NC at the Dismal Swamp Canal hiking & biking trail and throughout Huntington Beach State Park in SC; the Civil War Museum in NC and the Harriet Tubman Museum in MD; Brookgreen Gardens in SC; visiting with Gail & Keely & Shane in MD, and the Christmas-decorated enchanted forest, also in MD; the horses and the drives around Assateague & Chincoteague Islands & the marsh boardwalk at Assateague (MD & VA); Blackwater, Dismal Swamp, & Back Bay National Wildlife Refuges; and watching the ships & the sunsets at the Chesapeake Bay in VA. Although we were unable to explore all that nature has to offer at Edisto Beach State Park in South Carolina and the surrounding area, the time spent camping right by the tidal salt marsh was definitely memorable. We will return to most of these places again, and look forward to visiting more southern States as soon as possible.
