Fall 2010 East Coast

Today yelp was my friend.  It found me a breakfast place in Mt Pleasant, a town on way to Charleston, that was excellent.  It was super-crowded on a Saturday morning, but they had a counter that I slid right into.  … Continued

not quite high enough to be the Highlands, but definitely not the Lowlands either. My post-walmart day started very well, my wifi app found me an excellent little cafe.  I seem to get a more targeted selection of eateries by … Continued

I drove the 120 miles or so back to the coast to the lovely city of Savannah. Not too much to say about it – a lot of walking, many picturesque squares, I lucked into free day at the art … Continued

Many things change as soon as you cross the state line into Florida.  I am at a campground a little southwest of the Okefenokee Swamp, on a freshwater lake called Ocean Pond. The sand is the small-grained whitish sand I … Continued

This is the start of the return trip.  I left Milly’s today with only one item fer sure on my agenda between here and Reno, visiting Kurt in Austin. I had planned to maybe visit Doug in Starkville, Mississippi (home … Continued

I loved this stretch of country last time I was through here and I loved it again this time! My friend Dan called it the Redneck Riviera, and I can’t argue with that either. It’s called the Big Bend around … Continued

Big Biloxi was rather pedestrian as campgrounds go.  There was a mandatory $6 surcharge for electrical hookup, to pay for having the whole place re-wired after Hurricane Katrina.  I think the point of this place is to provide old folks … Continued

I followed the road right next the Gulf until I ran out of Mississippi.   As usual I angled around on the side roads trying to avoid the interstate, and I got the good and the bad of it today. On … Continued

My walmart wasn’t much to look at, but it had the most important ingredient, an edge looking out on nature. So I am able to angle the van into a nice view of scrub oaks and grass and pretend I’m … Continued

My Austin experience wasn’t as epic as I had hoped for it to be.  This was entirely my fault and not Austin’s, I think.  I’m still kinda sick and low-energy, and I arrived at just the wrong time in terms … Continued