September 24: Hating to leave the lovely area of Mystic, CT, we headed up US Hwy 1... destination Cape Cod. We stopped off at Newport, RI. Jim wanted to see the Newport Yacht Club...lots of big, expensive boats and the scenery looks like a post card. We ate lunch at the Red Parrott and then walked around in the historic area. Arriving in Cade Cod, we checked into the Bay View Campground, Bourne, MA. Drove 97 miles today. Tomorrow we're going to explore the Cape and take the ferry to Martha's Vineyard. The is the first time I've really had a strong W-Fi signal in the motorhome.
Septembe 23: Mystic, CT is a very unique place... very easy to get around in and very pretty scenery. Ralph bought a "Marine Corps do-rag" at the Army Navy Store. We had lunch at Mystic Pizza... the pizza that made Julia Robert's first movie "Mystic Pizza" famous. The pizza was very good. After lunch we stopped at the historic seaport and Ralph got an extra treat... an antique car show was there and they had several antique motorcycles. The homes across from the seaport are unbelieveable... lot's of old and famous money in this area. Dinner was at Seahorse Seafood Restaurant and Ralph had his first (of many, I'm sure) New England Lobster... I have some before and after pictures of the lobster. Thanks to Jan's and Ralph's lobster bibs, we each now have a glass that says, "Stolen From Seahorse Restaurant, Noank, CT."
September 22: Left NJ this morning and noticed that we (and one truck driver) had the parking lot to ourselves. This was not a super Walmart so everything was quiet after 11:00 p.m Traffic was heavy once we got to Northern Jersey... and it took over two hours to cross the George Washington Bridge form NJ into NY... WE SURVIVED! The biggest problem was 14 lanes of traffic coming from paying the toll going into FOUR lanes of traffic across the bridge. Ralph would make a good NYC taxi driver; however, he has NOT learned how to blow his horn yet! We arrived in Mystic, CT (216 miles) around 4 00 p.m. and checked into Seaport Campground.. really nice with large sites. The people behind us were from California...originally from Tennessee, he from Nashville and she from Rockwood. After talking to her, I found out she knew Joy Simmons Lee (my roommate 47 years ago at Carson-Newman). It's a small world.
September 21: Left Chesapeake at 8:30 a.m. ... destination Cinniminson, NJ (274 miles today) to have dinner with my cousin Wink McCarter and his wife Jane. By-passed Washington, DC and Baltimore; however, we went right through the middle of Philadelphia. Ralph is getting pretty good at city driving. We "checked in" to our Walmart Campground before going the two miles to the McCarter home. Jan had a wonderful dinner and Jim told her he wished he had brought a doggie bag. They are going on a cruise September 27th, crusing up the Eastern coast, with Nova Scotia being one of their stops. My cousin, Barbara and her husband, Cholie, came over and visited with us while we were there. I had not seen Barbara in about 14 years when we all met in DC for a long week-end.
September 20: We went to Yorktown. This is where the British (Cornwallis) surrendered to General George Washington at the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
September 19: We met Jim and Jan yesterday at a rest area on I-95 arriving 15 minutes apart... pretty good timing with them coming from St. Petersburg and us from Maryville! (324 miles driven yesterday). Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay Preserve is a great preserve, very flat and right on the water...the Piankatank River and the good thing about this park is that I get Wi-Fi in the motorhome. We spent all day Wednesday at Colonial Williamsburg. I learned some trivia that might help sometime if I ever get on Jeopardy.
September 17: We left home on Sunday, Sept 16. The weather was cool and sunny. Arrived at the Forest Lake Thousand Trails Preserves (248 miles) around 2:00 p.m. This is one of our Thousand Trails home park and it's a very nice park. It's between Mocksville and Lexington, NC. The plan is to meet the Lillico's (Jim and Jan) somewhere on I-95 (they're in Florence, SC tonight at Walmart... you've not camped until you camp at Walmart). We've seen several couples that were in Orlando this past winter. More will follow when we get to Chesapeake Bay, VA. For those of you who don't know the Lillicos... they're our friends (originally from Pittsburgh) now living in Seminole, Florida (near the St. Pete/Clearwater area). We met them in Townsend as they also have a lot in Sundown. This is the second motorhoming trip we've taken with them. We spent two weeks with them in Hershey and Philadelphis, PA and New York City last fall.
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Looks like you are world travelers.
Sure you will have a great time on your trip.
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