March 28, 2010

Well, we are here in Naples, Florida...relaxing. Friday night we stayed in Melbourne, Fl. at a nice Hampton Inn then Saturday drove down the Florida Turnpike and then across Alligator Alley into Naples. In total we travelled 1952 miles from North Conway to Naples. We will stay here for 2 or 3 weeks then start travel to Arizona. I will keep you posted every few days.

March 26, 2010

The drive down from New Bern (Mar.24th) was fun LOL took pictures and did several double back to take some funny pictures in Maysville, NC. We arrived in Charleston Wednesday and checked into the Marriott Courtyard Waterfront with beautiful views of the harbor and marina...the hotel is older and could use some upgrades. Had dinner down in the Historic district at Hyman's Seafood...great dinner, Ken has eaten here before. So good we didn't have room for desert so plan to return tomorrow for lunch and desert.
On the way driving to historic area we hit a large bump in the road and the trailer hitch jumped off the ball so we had to pull over and fix that at least it didn't totally come apart. Then the next morning (Mar.25th) we noticed a nail in the right rear tire so got that fixed on the way out of Charleston. The shop we stopped at didn't even charge for fixing the tire.
Thursday morning we spent several hours walking around historic Charleston...weather was perfect and we did some shopping. I loved the Sawgrass Baskets the natives make and watched them making them as they were selling them...bought a few for gifts. Had lunch at Hyman's as planned...just a sandwich so we could have one of their fabulous deserts...I had a great Key West Lime Pie...Ken had the American favorite apple pie a la mode. Checked into Hampton Inn, Savannah...Ken needed to work on the trailer hitch.

March 24, 2010

Didn't post last night as I had problems with my email and spent 1 hour with tech support for Road Runner. We stayed the night at a Hilton New Bern in North Carolina and we had fantastic views from our room over looking the harbor and marina and watched the sunrise with the red sky...looks like it is going to be a beautiful day in the 70's. We took a long walk through the historic city...New Bern was originally the capital of North Carolina...very beautiful shops and Victorian homes...we were tempted to stay an another day but we will drive to Charleston.
I did loose emails so if anyone emailed me yesterday I lost the emails so send again.

March 22, 2010

A pretty uneventful first day of travel...drove all 420 miles in the rain, we adjusted the route because of weather to the New Jersey Turnpike instead of going to Cape May and taking the ferry.
Well...after 3 hours of driving we ran out of things to talk about so we put on the radio (might be a long trip).
Tonight we are staying in Dover, Del. Had a nice fish dinner at Shucky's.

March 21, 2010

Well we dropped Neil off at the Manchester Airport today Sunday, Mar. 21st and we are off on our adventure. We are spending the night at Ken's daughter, Melanie's then off first thing in the morning heading south. More to come...............