Driving the Blue Ridge They call the Blue Ridge Parkway “America’s Favourite Drive”, so as devoted road trippers there was no way we were spending time in the part of the country without experiencing at least some of it. It meanders along the Appalachians for over 450 miles and is…
We set out this morning to cross the state of South Carolina. It was already steamy hot when we left so we were looking forward to some cooler weather up in the Appalachians. However we had an important stop along the way – Congaree National Park. Our 35th National Park!…
Saturday Following in the footsteps of Rhett Butler, today we’re heading to a place of peace, charm and grace! Today was one of our longer drives, over 5 hours, but the destination was Charleston, South Carolina, somewhere I was very keen to viist. If you know your “Gone with the…
From Williamsburg our next destination was the Outer Banks of North Carolina. ( North Carolina was the first “new” state for this trip, taking us up to our 43rd State of the Union!) The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mile string of barrier islands and spits off…
The big ticket item for today was a visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg was founded as the capital of the Virginia Colony in 1699. The young city grew quickly into the center of political, religious, economic, and social life in Virginia. With the establishment of the Willam and Mary college, Williamsburg…
Thank goodness for a better nights sleep last night, mostly due to exhaustion but I’ll take whatever I can get! Despite the better sleep we were still up pretty early and tucking into our continental breakfast by 7.30am. It was already warm when we hit the road and drove south…
When we left the USA in 2019 we fully expected to be back a year later to continue our 50 States bucket list…. but then, you know what happened … who could have expected a global pandemic. We were pretty lucky when the travel restrictions hit with the onset of…
We enjoyed the “cooked to order” breakfast in the Embassy suites this monring. The breakfasts do vary a lot from hotel chain to chain, Holiday Inn Express have their cinnamon rollls, and the hanptons have a really nice selectio of fancy smoothies but the Embassy suites do cooked to order…
So today we went over 100 miles out of our way to see a big ball of string… We had some major things to look forward to today! In fact I think Neil had planned the trip around the first of our sites, as it had originally beenon his plans…
We stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. The best thing about Holiday Inn Express? They ALL have the most amazing cinnamon rolls on the breakfast buffet. Yum! We had a mixed night, there was rain and odd noises in the room and some noisy people leaving their rooms…
Neil and I have a bit of a running joke about Nebraska, after we saw the black and white comedy/drama 2013 film of the same name. It’s a really odd but compellingly weird movie and it would either make you desperate to visit Nebraska…or fill you with dread at the…
We redeeed ourselves this morning! We were up before dawn and threw on some clothes so we could be at the Big badlands Overlook before sunrise. We had a while before the sun showed up as there was a band of low cloud on the hotizon, so the first shots…
