June 19, 2016 Dave chose to celebrate a beautiful Father’s Day at Acadia National Park. Bright sun, sparkling water, lots of breeze. After a late lunch in Bar Harbor, we happened upon a band playing fiddle tunes at an art Read more…
June 17, 2016 Dave’s great great aunt (his father’s mother’s mother’s sister) Helen Cogswell Trostel researched the Cogswell lineage and published her findings. When planning for our visit to Maine, Dave remembered that there was some family connection to the Read more…
June 11-13, 2016 Lighthouses Our new campground was only about 80 miles away so we were set-up and out to explore by early afternoon. We headed south, basically to where we’d left off, near Cape Elizabeth. This ended up being Read more…
June 11-13, 2016 It was dreary by the time we set up in the Red Apple campground. We drove along the coast through the “Kennebunks”: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Kennebunk Beach. We took a picture of a house on a little Read more…
June 10, 2011 The driver and passenger seats in the coach are very comfortable and have all kinds of electrically-controlled functions: forward/back, footrest, heat, and up/down. With the passenger seat turned to the back of the coach and the footrest Read more…
June 8-June 10, 2016 Jane’s niece Cindy Jeffes lives in the Philadelphia area and we wasted no time before getting together. We set up the RV about 1 p.m. and met Cindy in nearby Doylestown at Fonthill Castle at 2:30. Read more…
June 6-8, 2016 Our friends Ray and Mary Turner winter in Fort Pierce and summer on the Severn River in Annapolis. They graciously introduced us to their summer home and surrounding area by sea and land. Ray honored us with Read more…
June 4-6, 2016 Sometimes our timing is accidentally perfect. It was in Richmond. We thought we were in for the night when Dave talked with the campground host about local attractions. She mentioned that the Cold Harbor battlefield was having Read more…
June 3, 2016 This was a convenient place to stop for the night. The campground had a nature trail that gifted us with a beautiful evening walk.
June 2, 2016 Our priority for Charleston was Fort Sumter–and it included a boat ride! Jane had visited the site in the 1960s and remembered the boat ride and the fact that the fort was somehow involved in the first Read more…