Saturday, April 6, 2019

MISTY MOUNTAIN MORNING.

Day 85 – Still no internet or phone this morning. That means we’ll just write up the blog as we go & post it when we can get a signal. We’ll still be in the mountains tonight but at a different Park. Maybe they’ll have some kind of signal there. We were up by 7:25 a.m. & it was cloudy & foggy, 48 degrees. Our journey today should take us mostly north and east a little through the rest of WV & into the bottom of the western, mountainous section of Maryland. Most of the drive will be on Route 219 which was the road we took yesterday off I-64. It was curvy & hilly but it was very scenic.  Also, most of the drive will still be within the Monongahela National Forest, a really, really large chunk of land! The girls were not thrilled to be traveling again. They do prefer to settle in for days at one campsite. We do, too.

156 miles, (4:45), 37230−37386

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Monday, December 24, 2018

T’WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE, NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING, NOT EVEN A MOUSE…….

Day 6 – Well, the mice were probably running around our house in NY since the kitties weren’t home & couldn’t terrorize them anymore!  From what we saw on the home security feed this morning, it was snowing. A White Christmas for upstate NY? Here at Assateague, 41 degrees, foggy & cloudy at 7:15 a.m.

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

WILD HORSES.

Day 5 – We hadn’t decided where to go next until we saw Gail’s son, Shane, and he told us about Assateague Island National Seashore & showed us pictures of the wild horses running in the sand with the Atlantic Ocean behind them. Yep, we knew we had to go there. We got up at 8 a.m., 33 degrees & sunny. We leisurely packed up, dumped tanks, and departed Martinak State Park at 11:10 a.m. The girls just settled in right away; they’ve really adjusted to camping.

76 miles (1:45), 32607-32683

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Saturday, December 22, 2018

GOOD DAY SUNSHINE.

Day 4 – Sunny, the rain has stopped!  43 degrees at 8 a.m. Not only are the lighted trees for Christmas beautiful at this Park, but the moisture on the trees is glistening in the sunlight.  We left for Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge around 10:30 a.m. The traffic was light for the Saturday before Christmas, but we took backroads anyway.

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Friday, December 21, 2018

FREEDOM.

Day 3 – Happy Birthday, Carol! Eat, Drink, and Be Merry.

And for all those Birthdays & special occasions we didn’t acknowledge when the blog was off-line, a BIG shout out to you!

November 16 – Happy Birthday, Beth!

November 22 – Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

December 3 – Happy Birthday, Mary!

December 13 – Happy Birthday, Mary Ann!

December 15 – Happy Birthday, Ann N!

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

Day 1 – Hello friends & family! We’re up & running for our fifth trip, this one isn’t too long & is very loosely planned. We know we need to be home in April for obligations; we know we can’t go directly west nor north because it’s winter. So that leaves a trip south. We know, too, that things can change at the drop of a pin & that weather is really what controls where and when we can go places. That said, first we are going directly south to the eastern shore of Maryland to visit my stepmother (who is really more a good friend than a “stepmother”). Dependent on pending ice storms, we will either head slowly south stopping at places we’ve never seen, or hurry south if we need to get around a predicted storm.  We would like to spend more time in Georgia at the Okefenokee Swamp and more time in the Bayou of Louisiana. Those 2 places in particular from Trip #1 stood out as areas we wanted to revisit and explore for longer periods of time. Time & weather permitting, we’ll visit my daughter in Louisville, KY on the way back home. So trip 5 begins as we travel to Easton, Maryland.

313 miles (6:35), 32294-32607

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