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Bill(Wis)

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We're meandering our way southward again. Civil War battlefields this past Wednesday and Thursday (Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Courthouse). Next went to Hilton Head Island and today we're taking in the Daytona 500. Not NASCAR fans but
have watched the race on television. Have seats close enough to the track on the pit-out side to warrant hearing protection and
there is a fence (I think, I hope) to protect us from flying shrapnel. Beautiful sunshine, temp in the low 70s. Will take in
Florida Flywheeler thing on Wed. Then on to south Florida, Key West, etc. 21F this morning from where we left on Tuesday. (NW New
Jersey). Will be attending the Commodity Classic in March at New Orleans, then on to visit anti-Bellum mansions, etc. Will try to
kill enough time in the south for it to get warm again up north.
 
This surely sounds like towing a 5th wheel camper must be involved?? There's no way I could hit the road for that long, and afford to pay for lodging.
Your route and stops sound like something I'd enjoy. I'd of been kind of iffy on the Daytona thing. I am likewise not a racing fan, but am up for trying new things and seeing something once.
I've never been on a loop through the gulf coast states, so have no advice. Sounds like your doing a pretty good job picking your stops. I'm envious.
 
Hotels arent really that expensive if you stay in good clean ones. The 300 dollar a night ones could get a little spendy after a while.

Vito
 
Well, I realize that. But sounds like he's been on the road for awhile already, and he mentions New Orleans in March and onward from there. Maybe he's speaking of a separate trip later on, but I read into it that this is all in one outing and will remain out on the road. I'm assuming he is from up north, and this is a Snow Bird adventure.
 
Here is a good place to hang out in western KY as you migrate back to Wisconsin!
Don
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I was going to say the same! Except he would have to hall azz to be at FF on the 23rd then take in Key West and be in NO by March first.

Bill, enjoy your sojourn and stay safe on your travels.

This post was edited by DoubleO7 on 02/20/2022 at 06:10 pm.
 
I always go in for the early riser sessions. 0700. I get there early like 0630 for the excellent continental breakfast they serve courtesy of one of the vendors. As far as Mardi Gras is concerned, it comes in April this year unless they moved it which I doubt. But, even if they did, I won't be getting in to New Orleans until 8 March.
 
Thanks but no thanks. Not my kind of music and I remember listening to Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff when I was a little boy on the farm. Every Saturday night. Got tired of it. My one visit to Nashville was when we were ferrying some Hueys from New Jersey to Corpus Christi Army Depot and got weathered in in Nashville. Everyone went to the grand old opry except me and my co-pilot whose family owned a trucking company in New Jersey. He called an old friend of his who was a big wig with Peterbilt and arranged for a personally guided tour for the two of us through the Peterbilt truck plant in Nashville. They didn't give tours to the public. This was just for us. I will never forget that. Peterbilt eventually closed that plant due to the inability to reach an agreement with UAW.
 
Looks like I went off half-cocked again. You're right. I was thinking of Easter. But, I did take in Mardi Gras two years ago when we were on our way west. I know what you mean about crowds. We wondered if we were ever going to make it out of there. We did manage to drive right down Bourbon Street on Fat Tuesday afternoon, however. I have a Toyota Sequoia and I opened all the windows including the back one just to take in the smells and sounds and just drove along at a walking speed and did we ever have a good time. The friendliest people! We stopped frequently and just chatted and joked about most anything. It was that evening when we took on the parades that we experienced the traffic. And I'm used to driving around New York and Chicago!
 
I've never owned an RV and never will. In my weak mind it would be too troublesome and expensive. The cost of the thing, the fuel consumed to pull it. Pay for a place to park it. I've seen tires blow out on those things (right beside me) etc. Besides, my wife refuses to cook while on vacation. And, this time, we're using her car. A 2014 BMW 128d Xdrive. Turbocharged diesel with a 9-speed transmission, or something like that, that keeps the RPM right in the peak torque output range. 44.5 mpg so far into the trip. About 1400 miles. I stay exclusively in Hilton hotels because they have the most comfortable beds I have been able to find. Average $100+ change per night. Free breakfast, I don't eat lunch while traveling. Dinner tonight after the race at Bonefish came to $56 and that included two drinks. I shudder when I see those RV trailers and think what they must cost to buy and operate and what a pain that must be to unhook, hook, etc. Not for me. Of course, if you're taking a whole family along? Well, They do have suites in hotels and so you have to get another room? Another $100+. And there are cheaper hotels, too. I've gone that route but can't find comfortable beds in cheap hotels.
 
Yes. It was 21F this morning at my place in NW New Jersey. Ironically, it was something like 35 on my farm in Wisconsin. It was in the low 70s here in Daytona today with pleasant breezes.
 
Yes, the shop/cabin is on my family farm. Built by Mennonites in 2012. Everything you need inside or a good place to park a RV. 75 acres of riverbottoms timber with trails to explore. A few old tractors and caterpillars. Send me an email and I will provide more photos.
Don
 
My email is open. I love that old dinner bell. I have one just like it except mine is rusty. I remember when my Dad would bolt ours to the front bumper of our Model A Ford and go to shivarees with it. They don't give shivarees around my neck of the woods anymore.
 
I am guessing you will go to mile marker zero in KW?
And then head up the west coast of Florida?I
Tarpon Springs sponge docks, Weeki Watchee mermaids.
Maybe see the wintering manatees in Crystal River FL where I am.
Take Hwy 98/19 up the west coast. Swing into Appalachicola, FL
From there Hwy 98 hugs the coastline so close that a misque would put you in the gulf.
Pensacola has Fort Pickens (civil war era) coastal fort to protect the naval port back then.
National Naval Aviation museum on NAS Pensacola too.
Fort Morgan at entrance to Mobile Bay further on.
 
Thank you. I remember Fort Pickens. We raided it in the middle of the night when I was a student at the US Army Ranger School in 1958. The only time I was ever at NAS Pensacola was in 1960 when we landed there to take on some fuel. We made a hasty exit northward as a hurricane was coming in from the gulf. I will definitely stop there.
 
Stay on Sanibel Island. Get up early to pick up low tide seashells. Edison Museum in Ft Myers is a must.
 
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