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Natchez – Go For The Homes, Return With The History

When cotton was king and slavery prevalent, Natchez, Mississippi was at its center.  The land and the river for transport made plantation owners here enormous fortunes.  In fact, before the civil war, Natchez was home to more millionaires per capita than any other American city..…

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Driving the Redneck Riviera to Baton Rouge

By March 1, 2023, it was finally warm enough to move north of Florida!  (If we stay too long in freezing temps, the tanks full of fresh water, along with grey and black waste water, freeze up.  Like the…

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Fort Pickens And Final Thoughts on Florida

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about touring the eastern U.S., it is that it’s the setting of a tumultuous past.  The many skirmishes and change of control in different areas between the Spanish, the French, and the English,…

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I Love A Parade!

Our second HipCamp site in Florida was in the town of Apalachicola.  Say that 3 times fast. We met the fun-loving owner of the house, after having a little trouble with the electrical, which was quickly remedied.  She and her significant…

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Bursting The Villages Bubble

I had never heard of The Villages before driving through this area of Florida in February 2023.  The Villages is a huge, active, over 55 retirement community that’s larger than Manhattan and covers three Florida counties. It has over…

Scenic Cycling Travel

Expanding Our Horizons In And Around Inverness

From St. Pete‘s we continued creeping north in Florida, waiting for warmer weather before leaving the state all together.   First stop, Sparcia Witherell Family Winter and Vineyards, a Harvest Host.  We had no idea until we arrived that the…