Neither my husband Bob nor my daughter think that a trip north in November is a good idea, and most of the other comment I've gotten has also been not so encouraging. Plus I have another trip which Bob isn't so pleased about doing and I don't want to push my luck asking him to do two of them.
My sister and her husband have asked us to come stay with them in a condo in Key West in Feb. Bob doesn't think much of this idea although he did say that if I agreed to trade in my car which I really liked (although it was old - 1982) that we could. And although I hated to do it, I did trade in my car and have a new one for the first time since 1970 and even then it was a truck and not a car.
We normally prefer to travel by ourselves, and we don't even stay at our children's homes as a general rule. I'm not sure that the four of us will get along that well in an apartment, but I hate to disappoint my sister.
So I've been trying to figure out how I can plan a compromise. We have children living in the Charleston SC area, the Miami area and the Dallas TX area, and I'd like to visit all of them. I'd rather not travel more than 250 miles a day.
So - what I've planned. First go from here to Chincoteague. I haven't been to Assateague since I was on a Scout camping trip in 1955, and I didn't see the lighthouse then.
This is my sister (on the right) and her then boy friend - now husband and my brother-in-law in 1955. I am not in a bathing suit because I was suffering from a bad bad sunburn.
Somewhat confusingly, when I ask Google maps for a route, they keep sending me across the Bay from Point Lookout
to Crisfield on a ferry. Will there be a car ferry at that time of year (Feb)?
I would think that we could also see the Cape Charles light on the way down the Delmarva. I haven't seen that one either.
We have seen Old and New Cape Henry (2004)
And also Old Point Comfort (2000)
The next night I intended to spend in Henderson NC (to visit my mother's grave), but maybe I could swing by the Old Coast Guard Museum which I have only seen from the outside early in the morning. Would this be worth while?
From Henderson to where my son lives in Summerville is not too far. We would be here on the weekend.
Now I need to get from here down to Key West by about Weds. I was thinking about going to St. Mary's GA on Sunday to see the submarine museum, which we missed last time we were here because we had a good weather window and left earlier than we had planned. And also I did not get to go over to Cumberland Island which I think we can do on Monday.
