April 7 – Driving the overseas highway. Once again, we had breakfast at the hotel, gassed up the car and got on the road around 9am for the last leg of the drive to Key West. First stop, the visitor … Continue reading
April 6 In keeping with the Retiredness (my own word) of the trip, we managed to eat breakfast and get on the road before 10am and joined the Southern migration on I-95. When I was a boy riding cross-country with my … Continue reading
Friday April 5 we headed South toward Brunswick Georgia and warmer weather. A largely uneventful trip found us following I-85 to I-77 at Charlotte then to I-26 at Columbia, South Carolina where we started noticing heavier Northbound traffic. When we hit I-95 South, … Continue reading
Are we having fun yet?
Our North Carolina friends Andrea & Jim called us a couple of weeks ago and said, “Lets go to Key West” so we said OK and so, on April 4th, the adventure began!
Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I went to the mailbox and found Mary on the cover of the April 2013 issue of “Tellico Life Magazine”. I vaguely remembered that a photographer had visited one of her meetings a month … Continue reading
We have been trying to get to Florida for a visit with Haskell and Anne for a couple of years and, at last, we made it! Monday 2/18, we left winter behind as we drove South on I75 to Valdosta, Georgia for the … Continue reading
What a difference a couple of weeks make. Last time we travelled to the Hiwassee Wildlife Sanctuary, the high water conditions on the river had sent the birds elsewhere. Yesterday, we took a 4 hour cruise on the Blue … Continue reading
While on our trip to Asheville this week, Mary wanted to visit the Grove Park Inn. She had enjoyed a meal there about 30 years ago and wanted to see if the inn lived up to her memories. If you want … Continue reading
Last Saturday, Mary & I drove to Cleveland, Tennessee for the annual Sandhill Crane Festival. We arrived about 10:00 an and were surprised to see full parking lots and long lines for the shuttle busses to the viewing area where … Continue reading
We have had over 7 inches of rain in the Tennessee River Valley this week and the Army Corps of Engineers and the TVA are generating lots of hydro-electric power and dumping millions of gallons a second to control the … Continue reading
