home coming

one more road day. we stopped this time in fredricksburg. :)









while the girls got ice cream with daddy, i got to visit a small apothecary history museum.







(that's a live leech in the glass bowl.)







then we got back in the car and finished the drive up (with two car ghosts in the backseat.)




and enjoyed the fall foliage, again. :)




now we are here, looking forward to visiting with family and friends for the next few days.

another town and more show

yesterday started with the back roads...







but as that got complicated, the maps lacked the roads we needed, and cell signal (for gps) flickered in and out at best, we ended up back on the highway.




but first, we did check out the north carolina welcome center.















at this point, we're just rushing to delaware to visit family and friends. tomorrow, we'll be driving through the outer reaches of sandy.

savannah isn't a savannah...

sadly one daughter came down with a stomach bug in the wee hours, so she rested at the hotel with daddy and chilled.

so, R and i visited savannah alone. we enjoyed savannah's beauty.
















we met a lovely artist, and saw one of the historic houses, a paddle boat and forsythe park.

















back again, and daughter is recovering, so tomorrow should be better for her. we'll be continuing north, stopping in rocky mount, north carolina on our way to family.

into the atlantic

we left tallahassee this morning and continued east right up to the atlantic (in jacksonville.) during our drive, we also witnessed a forest fire near the highway.













some of us got a little wet. :)









then we got great lunch (and even better conversation) at M Shack on atlantic blvd. while the adults chatted, the girls ran across the street and made friends.





then we turned north and got in to savannah with dark. tomorrow we will play in savannah.

another town and one more show...

when we stopped for lunch at a drive in (as opposed to a drive through), my daughter found on the radio that old journey song "...the road's no place to raise a family..." ha ha ha!! :)

today, after a delightful breakfast at the inn, we bade a fond fair well to new orleans and hit the road... again. :)













our hotel here in tallahassee has an open pool, sooo the girls are enjoying a second benefit of the T-shirts we got in new orleans... :)









tomorrow we'll head to jacksonville, fl, and the atlantic ocean, then north to savannah before bedtime.

the big easy

we started the day evacuating ourselves from a ... working hotel. the kids had loved the room because there were glow in the dark stars on the ceiling and a black light in the room (glowing white towels, anyone), but last night was not so inspiring for us adults.

we found "olde town inn" on marigny st, a few blocks from the french quarter (instead of 6 miles), for essentially the same price, but cute and quaint and fun, and no obvious illegal business happening here. yay!




then we saw the french quarter, cemetery number 1, and the voodoo museum before noon. oops. usually i schedule too much.













so we saw cafe du monde, the mississippi here, and bought the best $3 souvenirs ever.









then we walked around the french market, and discovered live music and a kid dancing, soooo... ya know.... ;)







and got amazing texmex cajun lunch.




then we saw the louis armstrong park before going on a great historical ghost tour. :)










y'all sooo gotta come check it out!!! (and stay at olde town, NOT red carpet. :) )

happy day, and looking forward to doing some sitting tomorrow on our way eastward.