So let the journey begin

Today starts the beginning of our 2014 RV Journey!  Yes, we have begun the traveling adventure of a lifetime and it all began from Mile Marker ZERO!

Well, we didn't start our trip in the RV at Mile Marker Zero, but we did spend the night there!  

You see…when driving a Land Yacht (read this as RV), we find that our mileage has averaged around 7.5 MPG (yes…you read that right with our gasser RV).  So, when we decided to make this trip, we figured that we could make "day trips" after parking the RV and this is EXACTLY what we did to begin our trip at Mile Marker Zero in Key West.

So like I said, our trip has begun or it began a few weeks back when we traveled to Key West to start at Mile Maker Zero.  Out plan is to make our way along the East Coast and end up at the final mile marker in Maine in Fort Kent!  

According to some Internet info, US1 has been around since 1926.  The northernmost spot on US1 is the Claire-Ft Kent Bridge in Ft Kent Maine.  There is a marker in Ft Kent which identifies that it's 2,446 miles from Key West to Ft Kent…so "Lucy, we have some traveling to do!"

The first stop is a NAS Mayport, Florida just north of Jacksonville and on the Atlantic Ocean.  It's a nice place…with all of the amenities including CATV!  What an upgrade from our wintering location at Patrick AFB where you didn't have wifi and the operation was lacking!  

At first glance, Mayport could be a future location to spend the winter…hmmmm, do we want to come back to Florida?

So we hope to have safe travels over the next few months as we make our way to Oh My God, Omaha to see our daughter!  But we have a lot to see in this great country between now and then.

Tuesday's Travel Take

“When you get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright.  But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.  Cool, unlying life will rush in.”  D.H. Lawrence     

Tuesday's Travel Take

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”  Moslih Eddin Saadi 

As one of my bosses told me when I was working too much, "Stop and take some time to look at the mountains!"  

Thanks Colonel Hilbun, I have looked at many a mountain (and desert and flower and ocean) since your recommended it.

Tuesday's Travel Take

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”  Henry Miller 

Tuesday's Travel Take

“Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.  You are constantly off balance.  Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”  Cesare Pavese 

Travel is brutality…it's hard on our systems…not sleeping in ones own bed, makes you restless and uncomfortable.  

However, when you travel in your RV, you take your bed and everything else (including the kitchen sink) along for the trip.  Therefore, you are RESTED!!!!

Tuesday's Travel Take

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move.”  Robert Louis Stevenson 

I LOVE to travel…just to GO (and go and go and go)!