One More Time…With Feeling

The year has finally come…we have psyched ourselves up…we have practiced pretending we enjoy excessive heat and humidity…we have bought the sunscreen and thin light clothing, yes, that’s right, we are vacationing in the Southeast in the summer!!! 

I only hope we don’t regret forgetting to slowly increase our tolerance for fried food as part of our preparation. 

As I write this we are just south of Hannibal, Missouri. Typically I write the vacation overview posts BEFORE the actual vacation, but typically I don’t have a kid graduating from high school three days before we leave, so we are rolling with it. 

The last long family trip we took in the camper was down to Texas for Spring Break 2022. That left us with a camper map that looks like this. 

I don’t know what gives everyone the right to just assume we are going to the Southeast on our next trip, but, well, they were right. We are finally finishing the 48 state map!!! 

We are traveling three weeks on this trip from June 6-25. 

The main stops are:

• Nashville, Tennessee 
• Charleston, South Carolina
• Savannah, Georgia 
• Orlando, Florida
• St Pete/Tampa, Florida
• Orange Beach, Georgia 
• New Orleans, Louisiana 
• Hot Springs, Arkansas 

We are still in the same set up with the same truck and trailer. Matt’s regular maintenance has paid off and they are holding up well (knocking on wood). 

Participants include the same cast of characters as prior episodes: 

• Matt as the overly capable father/hubby/driver/mechanic/jack of all trades
• Emily as the planner, historian, cook, and frighteningly bad navigator
• Grace as the helpful/joyful and eldest of our now mostly elderly children
• Cameron as the newly college bound kid learning as much from his dad as he can (wise)
• Caleb as the youngest teenager providing a running stream of entertainment 

Here we go!