In Georgia we hit two National Park sites, one state park and one county park. Although not showstoppers in their own right, each one was worth a visit as part of our journey. This first post will cover the first…
Our guess is most people have probably never heard of South Carolina’s Congaree National Park, and that’s too bad. Or, that’s too good, if you want to experience nature without the crowds. Congaree is one of the newer parks in…
Our second contender for Southern city charm is Charleston, South Carolina. Arriving late in the afternoon, we first stopped off at the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in adjacent Mt. Pleasant. There we learned about the “forgotten founder” — one…
Whether you’re a culture vulture, a history buff, a foodie or a photographer, it’s hard to go wrong in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. These two rival romantic cities vie for vacationers’ attention, and most people seem to prefer…
“Where the waters meet” is the tagline of Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve tucked into a corner of northern Florida outside Jacksonville. Those waters are the Nassau and St. Johns rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. This park is also…
It was love at first site for us at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach. We stopped in there on our drive north between national parks on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Our Morikami visit has been one of…
After our Everglades and Big Cypress adventures we were ready to camp in a bit more style, so we used Miami-Dade County’s Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park campground near the Miami Zoo as a base for a few days.…
Big Cypress National Preserve is surrounded by various sections of Everglades National Park, a few state parks and two Indian reservations. We stopped in at the welcome center on the west side of the preserve to ask the ranger where…
We’d heard that Everglades National Park’s Gulf Coast section typically has fewer bugs than the Flamingo area and decided to head over there. We’d also heard good things about the Anhinga and Gumbo Limbo trails in the park’s Royal Palm…
Checking the tide tables, we knew we had until mid-day for high tide to paddle the nearby Nine Mile Pond canoe trail through the mangroves. So to make the most of our time in the morning, we drove to the…