Today was the big day, our drive to the coveted site in Bahia Honda State Park - the only natural sand beach in the keys. The drive to the keys is just spectacular -I never get tired of it. Driving almost over the water with nothing but blue skies and water on both sides of the road in most parts. After 106 miles we were settled in our site and even though is not ocean front, it's so close I can smell it and that is good enough. We got the RV set up in our si...

Today we are in Miami - we had a list of possible places to visit and we all agreed on Jungle Island. I had been there in 1986 with my Uncle and family and hubby had visited in the early 90s during a business trip to Miami. Back then it was called Parrot Jungle and the parrots rode bicycles and skates - so cute. Our children had never visited, so off we went. We had a great time visiting all the animal exhibits and attending all the animal shows. I am the cra...

Well - if you have been following our trek, you can realize we did not make it to FL as originally planned by this morning, we spend the night in Georgia at the border with South Carolina. We wanted to visit the Kennedy Space Center which is several hours away from where we awoke this morning. I read a visit to the Center will take all day and with the price of admission, we should take advantage of every open hour. At his point and knowing those facts, it doe...

We headed out early, earlier than the teenagers want to wake up. That is OK, I send them to my bed, close the slide outs and head out. A little over two hours and 148 miles later, we pulled into the New River Gorge Bridge Visitor Center just off Rte. 19 in WV. We had stopped there before without the kids but did not make the hike down - today we were going to do that. The kids grabbed something to eat while I got ready (i.e. showered) - oh the beauty of tra...

Approximately five hours after heading out and with 293 miles under us we stopped for the night. The driver is tired and ready to call it a night. Instead of our usual rest area stops like in the past trips, our preferred place to stop is Walmart. When we have more than the two of us in the RV, we need to open the slides, which is not something we can do in a typical rest area. My night co-pilot Kati, helped me find Wal-Mart location and we pointed our GPS in...