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CQ POTA
April 21, 2025 — Day 16 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA Not much to say today, another lazy day. Oh, we didn’t want to be lazy. We’d planned on kayaking out to the concrete boats. But the winds were high, gusting to over 25mph. It would even have been unpleasant to head out on the bikes. We’re in the trees and the gusts were moving the RV a little. We’ll take a pass on that thank you very much! Paul went and played radio. The ham radio propagation was horrible, the big solar flare is wreaking havoc with the radio waves. But still, he got some contacts in. The…
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With All the Frills Upon It
April 20, 2025 – Day 15 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA It seems that we are on the road a lot on Easter Sunday. This isn’t intentional, it just happens that way. Last year we traveled for the eclipse. This year traveled for the birds. What’s odd is that we both love spring in New England. You’d think we’d figure out by now that we like to be home in spring time! Next year, right? We lazed about in the morning. Soon it was time for lunch. But we had no time to make our Easter dinner, so we just foraged in the fridge. Paul had his “near Philadelphia”…
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Anybody Need a Life Boat?
April 19, 2025 — Day 14 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA We keep moving the bike rack around, if we’re not driving to a trail we put them on the back of the RV, if we’re going somewhere, we put it on the Jeep. It feels more secure since they are less visible. But this means we now had good access to the Jeep’s taillights and Paul could finally install the 4 pin trailer adapter, so we could then install the brake lights on the bike cover. The dirty connector near the top of the photo is the original Jeep taillight harness. The pair of clean connectors (2 are…
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Hey Look, a Skull!
April 18, 2025 — Day 13 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA After we did some laundry we were ready for some adventure. It was too windy to kayak out to the Kiptopeke Breakwater, aka the concrete ships that form a barrier. We have the chops for it but we don’t like doing it. We took the kayaks down from the top of the Jeep then headed out to the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. We had been there 2 years ago and really enjoyed it. There is a long North — South trail, and it goes all the way down the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We noodled…
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Tourinns Motor Court
April 17, 2025 — Day 12 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA We hung out in the morning since today was “moving day.” The good news is that we were in Site 23 and we were moving to Site 21 which was right next to us. Checkout time was 1pm but our neighbors were starting to pack up by 9:30 or so! By 11 they were almost done and we were getting excited for an early move. Then the four adults and 4 kids sat down for lunch. Makes sense, when you have that big a crew to even if you are a bit early because feeding a big crew…
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The Other Bridge is Cooler
April 16, 2025 — Day 11 Lums Pond State Park, Bear, DE — Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA It was quick to pack up to leave this morning because we had done all the water/sewer stuff the night before. We kept on thinking it was an easy peasy 3 1/2 hour drive to Kiptopeke. That’s because we keep on making the rookie mistake of checking Apple Maps for a time estimate. Apple Maps or Google Maps will give you the expected time based on the average time of other travelers. We aren’t average travelers. Clifford is the much bigger, slower “red dog” exceeding the speed limit only rarely, and…
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Crab Cakes and Taxes
April 14, 2025 — Day 9 Lums Pond State Park, Bear DE Paul’s brother John came to visit today so not much of a blog. We had lunch at the Route 40 Diner. We had eaten there before and loved it (it’s possible you might remember the neon glow). Paul had 2 massive crab cakes but was jealous of his brother’s choice which flounder stuffed with crab! Susan went with her diner favorite, the Monte Cristo. On the way back we saw this cool bike. We had passed it on the way in, Paul grabbed his camera, aka his phone, and managed to get off this lucky shot. There must be…
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Turn Around — Trail Bridge Out Ahead
April 13, 2025 — Day 8 Lums Pond State Park, Bear DE It rained overnight so this morning we hung out waiting for the ground to dry out so we could go for a bike ride. But also waiting for Site 37 to clear out. Today is moving day, in the same park, see Thrash part 1 and 2. One of the camp hosts came by around 10:30 to put the new tenants’ hang tags up. Paul asked if site 37 was clear and it was. So we headed on over, a mere 3,000 feet or so. One of our shortest moves! We can move quickly so then we had…
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Entertaining Crackers
April 12, 2025 — Day 7 Lums Pond State Park, Bear DE Short blog today. We woke up when we wanted to. Ate when we wanted to. Was it lunch or breakfast? We honestly don’t know. It’s kind of a regular thing when we’re on the road. All we know is Paul had 2 of something. (Paul here. I loved both those meals) But first? We made the right decision to get out while we could! Here’s a photo from our friend Tundra, yes, that’s his name, he lives outside of Concord NH. This is what we didn’t have to drive through on Saturday morning to get to Fishkill NY.…
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The Unexpected Thrash Part II
April 11, 2025 — Day 6 Cracker Barrel East Greenbush, NY — Lums Pond State Park, Bear DE We were beat from the thrash that was yesterday and decided to sleep in. (susan here: no, really slept in, maybe 9:30 am, kind of sleeping in.) Paul hates driving in big cities so he programmed the Garmin to drive to the west around NYC, and dropped more shaping points into our Garmin to loop around Philadelphia. (susan here: which is always, “fun” except when it isn’t, which is pretty much always.) We also wanted to avoid the NJ Turnpike because crazy, crazy tolls last time we used it.) We had what…