Mar 2008

It's been a very busy week getting ready for our 125 day trip, but we're finally ready and take off around 9:30am. It's a beautiful sunny day in central Pennsylvania. The daffodils are several inches high and the crocuses are just beginning to bloom; springtime is finally coming to Pennsylvania but we are heading south to Florida.

The drive today is pretty uneventful for the most part til we get to the Carolinas when the sky darkens A LOT! We've been listening to the news about the tornado touching down in Atlanta last night and today the storm front is in the Carolinas. We're driving through North Carolina and the radio interrupts to say there are tornado warnings posted for two counties, but we have no idea if we are anywhere near those two counties. We soon see a sign saying which county we're in and it's not one of the counties under tornado warning. That's good, but the rain and wind are intense at times and we pull off the highway twice since the rain is so heavy it's hard to see the road.

After a long drive we pull into the South of the Border campground around 8pm, set up between the raindrops and call it a day.

We have spent several days preparing for our 125 day trip in our aluminum box on wheels, a Colorado 5th wheel trailer. Each day we have our list of what needs to be done and each night the list seems to get longer instead of shorter.

This trip is a continuation of our 2007 trip across the USA into Canada and Alaska. We cut short our year-long trip at 7 months when I became very homesick. We never made it to some of the country's most famous national parks, so we will visit many western USA national parks on this trip, including Grand Canyon and Yellowston. First, we'll spend a few weeks in Florida, visiting my parents, working on my brother's trailer, and of course several days at the Happiest Place on Earth: Disney World.