Eastern Shore in a heartbeat
After another night in the dark, I started to get over my biggest fears and we actually slept well and were up early to start driving towards Annapolis and the bridge crossing the Chesapeake bay to what is called the Eastern Shore. The places to visit in Maryland are St Michaels - ‘The Heart and Sou...
Presidential Washington D.C.
It was burning hot in the Capital of the United States of America: Washington D.C. - paying taxes without representation. Amazingly all of the museums and sites at the National Mall were free to visit! We started our tour - of course - with the National Air and Space museum. After spending a couple...
Passing through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
The travel to DC led us through Wilmington, known for the Winterthur castle - huge estate home to 175 rooms and a collection of antiques and American arts owned by the du Pont family. Further we passed through the villages of Paradise and Intercourse, Dutch country or also known as land of the Amis...
Charming Phila
Time to visit Philadelphia! The charming city of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington - a lot of American history here - , also the city where the Phillysteak - steak sandwich with onions and molten orange Cheez Whiz, was created. Pictures will describe better than words.
Encounter with the Appalachian Trail
Driving to the Delaware Water Gap today, which is situated - contrary to what the name may suggest - on the boarder of Pennsylvania and New Jersey at the Delaware river, the water gap right next to Mount Pocono. A charming little village was constructed around this Gap. We visited and took a hike on...
First border crossed
It was finally time for some driving. Today we wanted to cross the border with US and drive down a good way into Pennsylvania. We got to see the countryside and it was wonderful. Pictures will tell more than words here … A roadway sign told us there were some fresh eggs for sale at the farm. We foll...
Exploring
A fresh new sunny day arrived, together with a peaceful breakfast and the discussion of the plans of the day. We decided the RV needed some thorough cleaning, after we found some insects inside of which we are still not sure what they actually were. We got rid of all of the carpet inside and found t...
1000 islands
Spoiler alert - we did not visit all 1000 of them. This day also we had a slow start but our first excellent breakfast in a lovely campground in the middle of a forest….and it was the first of many great mornings! And we hit the road again direction 1000 Islands, there is a reason they call it a roa...
It's GO-time! Yes yes yes this got real!
It took us some time to wake up from the Sangria and by 1pm we were at the mechanic who told us that the repairs would be finished by late afternoon. We went for some supplies and started our journey FINALLY by driving to our first stop midway to the Thousand Islands. More than 3 hours later in the...
Almost ... but not quite yet
Getting up at dawn to start the journey to tow our RV and have it repaired in a shop today! Not an easy task around Mississauga we found out… Finally we found a shop - Autopro / Napa in Oakville - that wanted to take in the RV today and have a look at it. We immediately took an Uber to the Safe Self...
Day 2 ... Still not driving....
Once we woke up on Sunday morning, we started looking for dealerships or workshops that would be able to help us out with the BRAKE problem. Our RV was left, parked in front of the storage facility, so we were also a bit worried that someone might have wanted it towed - despite the message we left b...
START of our travels around the world!
Today starts the big -seems underrated, giant?- adventure that we have been planning and preparing during several months. The dream was to “travel around the world”. But what did this actually mean for the both of us? What did we expect of this dream? And how could we shape this dream into a concret...