We left Atlanta this morning at 8 AM and 72 degrees and headed out for our last day on the road, this trip. You all know what that drive is like. I knew we were getting close to home when, at noon time, we saw our first palm trees and the temperature was 91 degrees. We landed in Satellite Beach at 3:30 PM and I must add, we had a VERY happy doggie. Beamer is glad to be home, as are we. And the first thing I did was bow my head and thank the Lord for getting us...

One might think that after crossing the country twice in the past two years, we might have had enough, but given that we are about to do it once again, one may possibly come to the conclusion that we are just plain nuts. And perhaps we are. However, we are loving the national parks. Once you start visiting a few of them, you get hooked, for our government has set aside some of the most beautiful and impressive lands one could ever visit. And we plan to see as...

Today we drove home from Montgomery. We left at 7:20 AM and 43 degrees. We dressed as if it was 75 degrees because we knew that by the time we reached Florida, we would be miserable in genes. The early morning drive took us through small towns in Alabama. And we witnessed a lot of poverty. Many houses were run down and falling down, some abandoned by the roadside, and many people were living in old rusty single wide trailers. Life seemed better in Troy, a larger...

Well, here we go again. With Poinciana once again in our rear-view mirror, we hit the road for a 2 week trip, with Texas in our sights. We had an early start this morning. I opted for hitting the road after the rush hour traffic, but I was out voted by one…not sure how that happens…and we were up at 6 AM and on the road by 7 AM. Despite early morning traffic through the Kissimmee bottleneck, we managed to get to the turnpike in about 50 minutes, and o...

Dummy entry to allow for my starting point to be logged on the map.