One of the many questions we were asked on the road is… You're going where? In what? And you aren't divorced yet? LOL! So to all of you that had no faith… Yes! We drove 29,000 km or 18,000 miles, in the tiniest trailer known to man, and we still like each other!! Secondly, we were asked many times what was your favourite spot? One of the strangest questions we were asked was, what was the most mundane spot we visited? I guess it isn't that strange… Perhaps it was just the use of the word mundane! LOL! Ok! So for all of our curious followers! Here are our top spots with a mix of the mundane!
Top Spots!
Austin Texas! An eclectic, happening town, full of cool people, music, restaurants, shopping, museums, parks, and great weather! Everything you need for a perfect vacation!
Texas Hill Country! The small towns and beautiful countryside located between Austin and San Antonio. Rolling hills, rivers, wildflowers, quiet country roads, Texas BBQ's, wineries, antique shops, galleries, bistros and breweries, and that's just the beginning!
Savannah Georgia! What isn't to like about Savannah?! Loved it! Architecture, history, museums, parks, shopping, eating, drinking! Anyone watch/read "In the garden of good and evil"? Do it! And you will be on the next plane to the oldest city in the state of Georgia!
Bisbee Arizona! A former bustling mining town turned culturally alive tourist destination. An architecturally cool town filled with Victorian, and Art Deco buildings. Streets lined with cute shops, galleries, and restaurants! Bisbee was also runner up as one the Quirkiest Town's in America!
New Brunswick Canada! One of 3 Maritime Provinces and the only province in Canada that is constitutionally bilingual (English and French). Super friendly, beautiful scenery… Bay of Fundy! The Appalachian Mountains, rivers, loads of uncrowded parks for camping. And some history thrown in! We would definitely go back to explore more of the Maritimes!
Quebec Canada! Loads of quaint small towns! We would love to go back when we don't have to camp in a Walmart parking lot! Dido for Ontario! Unfortunately the parks were a little expensive for our budget, but the amount of cool small towns to explore was huge. Always a historic district with a "Main Street" brought back to its former glory! So fun to wander these out of the way towns!
Southern Alberta! Golden wheat fields, rolling hills, to the peaks of the Rocky Mountains! Awesome! And let's not forget the affordable Provincial Parks! Yaaa!
British Columbia! Jaw dropping beauty! Mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, the Pacific Ocean, old growth forests, wild life, and outdoor adventure abounds…. Ok, yes, and home! So I'm a little biased!
Ok, so I think I need to land this portion of the blog! Because seriously… I could go on and on. I didn't even touch on Portugal! Everywhere we visited had something unique and special about it! And to be truthful, now that we are home, I'm a little homesick for our little T@b and the places it took us. So let's switch topics and reminisce about some of the fun stuff we did!
So besides taking a leap of faith and jumping on a plane to fly to Portugal and house sitting a 300 year old house… What were some of our highlights you might ask?! Well……
Disney World and Epcot Centre for starters! Thank you C!
Kennedy Space Centre!
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An unexpected ATV adventure! Never thought I would like this…. But what a hoot! Thanks Jack!
And a few others worth mentioning….
- Niagara Falls!
- Remember the Alamo!
- A tour of Canada's Parliament Buildings!
- A tour of the LBJ Ranch… Better known as the Texas White House!
- Visiting the Florida Everglades… Minus the mosquitos!
- Touring the Cabot Trail on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island!
- The Bay of Fundy
- Meeting all of the friendly Tourism Information Staff and the smiling Walmart Greeters!
Ok, the not so good….
What the heck happened with our 2013/2014 weather? Ice storms, and snow in the South!? That Polar Vortex followed us everywhere!
Picking up garbage on the shores of an undisclosed beach of the Gulf Shores. We spent one week in this area, and every day we visited the nearby state park and picked up garbage. I cringe to think of that vast whirlpool of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean. What have we done to our planet?
And… These are some random things that brought smiles to our faces!
- Hiking trails and seeing new terrain with our best friend Mango!
- Campfires and marshmallows
- Our matching Smoky the Bear t-shirts! Ok, so we're starting to dress alike!
- Morning coffee at a multitude of beautiful campgrounds
- Sticker shopping!
- High fives crossing State/Provincial lines!
- Family size M&M's!
- Box wine!
- Wildlife, crocodiles included!
- Bird watching! Who knew!
- Corn nuts and other varied snacks on the road!
- Singing to tunes on the road. Even when all we could get was horrible country music… Which soon grew on us! LOL! Our favourite, Blake Shelton's Chew Tobacco song!
- Redbox! Movies for $1.20!! Can't beat that!
- The sandy shores of Florida!
- Christmas on the road and decorating the trailer!
- Seeing a rocket launch at Kennedy Space Centre!
- Driving through New York during rush hour with the car and trailer! LOL! Maybe that was not so good?
- Camping World!! What a store! We could spend hours in there! Incidentally, that is where I bought my camp club chair!
- Of course our little home the T@b. Which drew much attention in the campgrounds, Walmart parking lots and gas stations… Without her we would never have met so many wonderful people!
So I'm sure some of you are just dying to find out how our sticker collection turned out! LOL! Well, it did improve quite a bit. With that in mind we didn't start collecting until we hit our 4th State and some places we just couldn't find a sticker if our lives depended on it! So we shall use the wonders of the Internet and order up a few in the near future! Drum roll please……
On that note, I'm afraid this amazing display of stickers brings our "Have T@b will travel" blog to a close. That's not to say that we don't have many more T@b adventures planned! This has been an amazing journey, and it has been so much fun sharing it with you! If we have one bit of advice it would be… Don't wait, get out there and explore! You won't be disappointed!
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
