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7/21/04 It has been awhile since we have been able to do an update so I will try
to keep this short and to the point! We have been having a great time on the road,
sleeping somewhere different every night. We have also been making awesome
progress southward bound! After I last wrote, we visited some lighthouses in south
ern Maryland and then we spent the evening in Baltimore. Baltimore has an
awesome Inner Harbor area where we visited a submarine, a lightship, a
lighthouse and a coast guard cutter. We had dinner right on the waterfront, with the
sun setting in the background. The next day we did a Chesepeake Bay lighthouse
cruise and saw 10 lights in all. It was a smaller boat than we are use to and it was
an all day trip but it was well worth the time and money! We were able to get very
close to the lights, you�ll see by our pictures. There are two lighthouses that look
crooked, yes they are really like that, it was pretty wild to see them so upclose and
personal. We spent the next day driving to Virginia Beach where we got there late
in the afternoon. In fact it was perfect timing because we had time to walk the
beach, ride a ferris wheel, eat an ice cream and catch a fire works display. Good
timing indeed. We spent Monday driving through the Outer Banks of North Carolina
visiting lighthouses. Because of time we didn�t get to visit all of them but we did
climb Cape Hattaras which is the tallest lighthouse in the US. It was awesome,
muggy and hot, but incredible. We had to take a few ferries to get back to the
mainland and we drove a few hours after that to get farther south. We met an neat
couple, Don and Jenny from Myrtle beach who loved hearing our story of our travels.
On our way to the hotel, we ran into something very interesting�. An area called
Camp Lejeune where there were signs and words painted on the road warning
of tank crossing! It was eerie because we didn�t expect it, and it was night time.
Then we turned a corner and there was a military guy with a huge gun walking on
the side of the road� that camoflage crap really works!! We spent Tuesday
(Keith�s birthday) on the road. We had lunch in Myrtle Beach and dinner in
Savannah, GA. How many people can say that! Savannah in an incredible city.
We had an awesome dinner down by the Riverfront which is the oldest part of the
city and took a tour of the town at night that was about the haunted side of the
Savannah. It is supposedly the most haunted city in America. It was a little cheesy
but a lot of fun. Today we hit the road fairly early and climbed St. Simon�s
lighthouse in Georgia. Spent the afternoon in St. Augustine FL doing a trolley tour
of the historic area. Told you guys that we loved those tours!! We also saw a
lighthouse in St. Augustine. What a neat town, it was the first settlement in the US
when Ponce de Leon came over from Spain. He arrived even before the Pilgrims
in Plymouth. Our last stop for tonight was Daytona Beach. We wanted to go there
to drive the Jeep down the beach but we were too late, they were already getting
cars off the beach for the night. So we continued on to our last lighthouse for the
day which we climbed. It�s the second tallest lighthouse in the US. All in all we
have been having a blast and enjoying each and every day. It sounds like we are
going none stop but we have had some down time in between- so don�t worry, we
are not burning out. We love life on the road. Keep in touch and stay tuned for our
next adventures!! Mahalo Michelle
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