Taking Seattle with me…
So I finally leave Seattle…it was cold there…now I’m in DC and have been to S Carolina and Florida and it’s been cold. Oh well!
Anyway, began the trip from Seattle at 3:30 am on April 1st – thanks mom and dad – yes, I know, kind of early – got to Atlanta and then preceded to need 3 planes to get to Charlotte – the plane I was supposed to get onto had to be towed in because of the landing gear, the 2nd one had mechanical problems and I finally left about an hour late on a 3rd plane. Wow, Delta, thinking you need to upgrade! Finally saw John after 2 weeks and he brought me flowers (aughhh – isn’t that special!) and saw his mom again!…drove from there to Camden, SC!
We spent a few days there – not a ton to Camden, but it’s a nice little town – it’s kind of funny how you get a better understanding of someone once you see where they grew up – not something specific, but just stuff…Anyway, finally met some of his fam and remet some others…I don’t know what John was talking about, they all seemed pretty nice 🙂
After a few days we took the train to Jacksonville to see my brother and Kerry. We were, of course, late. I think this will be a theme since we’ll be getting into “Africa time” soon. Jacksonville is pretty nice – well, where they live anywhere which is not really in Jacksonville, but closer to the beach and more north. After pretty much relaxing that day away, we went to Savannah the next day. John fell in love. With taking pictures of Savannah (okay, he never had any problems with taking pictures, but Savannah – he must have taken a ton). I think my brother’s definition of it being kind of Eugenish (OR) is pretty accurate.
The next day we went to Daytona where we stayed the night at the Hawaiian Inn. Apparently there’s a bunch of history of his mom and dad staying there back in the day. It was pretty nice. Unfortunately because it was friggin’ cold out the water park that was supposed to be open was shut down. So John was denied again. He’s been trying to go to a water park for like a gazillion years now but this is like the 3rd or 4th time something has happened. Anyway, Daytona was way bigger than I thought – it’s more like a Waikiki than anything but more sleazy.
The next day after that we went to St Augustine. Cute town! Cute dolphins that live in the bay there! Just cute! If there had been more puppies walking around it would have been perfect. I really liked it there but it seemed kind of planned to me. Anyway, that was our last day in Florida. I want to go back and go farther south. And west. Who am I kidding – I just want to go everywhere…
The next part of our journey took us up to Washington DC. But we leave for S Africa tomorrow so that’ll have to wait until later! Will post pics later!
Tags: RTW Trip
JohnCin
It was great having you two down for a visit. Sorry about the weather – if it’s any consolation, it was only 92 here today. 🙂 Anyways, we both send our best wishes your way, and hope that your flight down to South Africa is uneventful. Looking forward to reading about your new adventures here.
Great to hear that the start of your adventure is going well! We will definitely miss you and John! We look forward to hearing about all your new experiences over the next 2 years!