Andrew and I left the kids with grandma and went to Dry Tortugas via the Yankee Freedom III ferry. The weather called for storms so we were a bit worried about going, but we have no idea when we’d come back. If we had canceled […]
Month: January 2022
National Park Recap: Everglades
We entered the park through the Homestead, FL entrance and started at the visitor center (as always). We got our Jr Ranger books and talked to the Ranger about good trails to do along the main road as well as near where we were staying […]
Travel Recap: Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center definitely left an impression. Our family is full of space nerds so we were pretty excited to visit KSC. Our campground was right across the water and we could see the Vehicle Assembly Building! We stopped at the information […]
Travel Recap: St Augustine, FL
St Augustine and Anastasia State Park was our home for 2 nights. Our stay in Anastasia State Park was… not great. We had some pretty crummy campsite neighbors and our site was full of trash when we arrived. You can’t win them all I guess. […]
Travel Recap: Little Talbot Island State Park
Little Talbot Island State Park outside of Jacksonville, FL was amazingly peaceful. There were so few people at the beach we sat and played in the sand for 2 hours and only 2 people walked near us during that entire time. The waves here also […]
National Park Recap: Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
We camped at Lake Tobesofkee near Macon, GA. We had a beautiful lakefront site. We drove to Ocmulgee Mounds as a day trip. We started in the visitor center and watched the park film. The film laid out a great timeline for the area, different […]
Travel Recap: Savannah, GA
From Charleston we drove to Savannah, GA. I couldn’t convince anyone to do a ghost tour or visit the Girl Scout related stuff. We settled on visiting the Tybee Island Lighthouse, Fort Pulaski, and Forsyth Park. The Lighthouse and associated keepers village houses on Tybee […]
National Park Recap: Fort Sumter National Monument
We drove to Charleston from Congaree where we spent 3 nights. The first day we decided to take the boat to Ft Sumter National Monument from the Patriots Point harbor. This was a cool area to leave from because there is a decommissioned aircraft carrier […]
National Park Recap: Congaree National Park
We spent 3 nights outside Congaree in Mill Creek Park and drove into the park one day for a day trip. We packed lunches and snacks, visited the visitor center to get Jr Ranger books, and set out on a 2.5 mile walk around the […]
National Park Recap: Great Smokey Mountains
We spent 2 nights in Pigeon Forge and 3 nights in Great Smoky Mountains Smokemont campground. Pigeon Forge was a bit crazy. We weren’t expecting all the touristy places at all. We went in the morning to the National Park. We visited the Sugarlands Visitor […]