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Lake Louisa State Park and Clermont, FL

Lake Louisa State Park and Clermont, FL

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The extended chronicles of our travels as recorded on this blog have been largely chronological. We’re taking a bit of a departure from that linear model of storytelling and skipping a few months of recent history immediately following this brief update. Our new camper is working well – we’ve adapted to towing a trailer, mostly because I am overly cautious and usually well-prepared if given the luxury of time to plan. The set-up/tear-down time of the trailer is virtually the…

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Mt. Airy, NC – Mayberry USA

Mt. Airy, NC – Mayberry USA

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Mt. Airy, North Carolina is not only home to one of the most well-known Old-Time and Bluegrass festivals in the country, it’s also the birthplace of that piece of classic American television The Andy Griffith Show. Andy Griffith, you see, was born in Mt. Airy (in which his boyhood home still stands and is now available as an overnight rental) and modeled the fictional town of Mayberry and many of its inhabitants after the very real town and some of…

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Exploring Elkin and Stone Mountain State Park

Exploring Elkin and Stone Mountain State Park

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The Summer of Fiddle Festivals continued with the next stop on the horizon – Mt. Airy, North Carolina and the Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention. But with a couple of weeks between Fiddler’s Grove and Mt. Airy, we needed to find somewhere to park and pass the time. We chose to spend a few nights at Stone Mountain State Park because it’s nice to have some RVing amenities – like shore power, fresh running water, and a dump station to…

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Florence – Alabama’s Renaissance City

Florence – Alabama’s Renaissance City

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Nestled on the bank of the Tennessee River, the town of Florence in the northwest corner of Alabama plays host to music festivals, seasonal celebrations, a Renaissance faire, and the NCAA Division II Championship Football Game every year. Florence is also the birthplace of W.C. Handy – a composer and musician credited as the “Father of the Blues” – and the town holds a festival every year in his honor, drawing visitors and musicians in droves. A Frank Lloyd Wright…

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Sidling Down San Antonio Way

Sidling Down San Antonio Way

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For those of you following along on our rail adventure, we recently left you from a delayed train on our return ride back to the RV parked in Texas. Fear not – we eventually arrived at McGregor Station only seven hours behind schedule thanks to a debilitated freight train blocking the tracks overnight, followed by a potentially damaged bridge that required inspection before we could safely cross. The bridge, which was maybe six feet long over a ditch about four…

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The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 3

The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 3

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The daily activities experienced during our train-driven visit continued in stark contrast to our recent months spent in New Mexico. Gone was the isolation felt in the wilderness surrounding tiny mountain towns, replaced by near-constant communion with family and abundant opportunities to venture into well-populated areas. Slow days that occasionally threatened a twinge of boredom morphed into a steady river of activities and generally full schedules. Ashley and I continued our separate visits with barely enough free time to miss…

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The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 2

The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 2

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The rail adventure continued as we parted ways with Ashley meeting her family in the greater Johnstown area while I ventured further east to Elizabethtown. I met my brother-in-law at the station and bid the train a fond farewell, welcoming an extended break from so much sitting and waiting. With what I was still anticipating as at least a four or five day span until I could possibly surprise my parents, I spent the time happily catching up with my…

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The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 1

The Rails Slowly Traveled Part 1

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We’ve temporarily swapped the RV for a locomotive and set off on the rails for a trip across the country. Welcome to the first post in a series chronicling the highlights from our rail adventure! After roughly a year away from the home state of our families, we both decided we’d like to arrange a visit whenever possible. Since we planned to spend another winter in the Keys and were currently in New Mexico at the time, driving the RV…

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