Our pet cat, Paladin.
We drove our coach 323 miles, about five hours of driving, from St Clair to Buckley, Michigan.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
I-69 West:
Rest area:
Flint Strong water:
North towards Saginaw:
I-75 North:
Rest area:
Paladin on the dash:
Route 10 West:
Speed Limit 75, Truck Speed 65, Minimum Speed 55:
Rest area:
I like this style of passing lane, where the dotted line strongly suggests moving right:
Arriving at KOA:
We drove our coach 249 miles, about five hours of driving, from Ravenna, Ohio to St Clair, Michigan.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west then north:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
“Is your TV Antennae Down?” — okay, pedantically that should be either “are” or “antenna”:
Leaving West Branch State Park:
High arching bridge over rail line:
Ohio Turnpike I-80 West:
“Trucks and slower traffic use left lane”; unusual:
Large service plaza truck parking:
Service plaza food court:
BK and Starbucks coffee for lunch:
Paladin in his dash bed with some roadworks:
Ohio turnpike I-80/90 West:
Another service plaza, with RV elctrical hookups!:
Toll plaza:
I-280 North:
Oregon?!
Bridge over Maumee River in Toledo:
I-75 North:
“Welcome to Pure Michigan”:
Not the best road surface:
TA fuel stop:
I-75 North:
“Speed limit 70, truck speed 65, minimum speed 55”:
“Welcome to Thousand Trails St Clair”:
Gate:
Our site:
We drove our coach 323 miles, about six hours of driving, from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:
An interactive map:
Preparing to toad up:
Geese and goslings on the road:
Entering the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
The first of several rather narrow toll plazas:
I-76 West, aka the turnpike:
Another toll plaza to exit the turnpike for fuel:
Fuel stop:
Back onto the turnpike:
Fun with zoom:
The first of several tunnels:
This U-Haul driver wasn’t very good at lane placement:
Out of the first tunnel and straight into the second one:
The third tunnel:
Service plaza:
Paladin on the dash at the service plaza:
The fourth-and-last tunnel:
Another service plaza:
Bridge construction:
Welcome to Ohio; a frame from the dash cam, as the photo was too obscured by rain (not that this is great):
Huge welcome center parking:
The last toll plaza:
Yay for E-ZPass:
A steep arching bridge over a rail line:
West Branch State Park:
Check-in office:
Our very sloped site:
We drove our coach 162 miles, about three hours of driving, from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map:
Taking out the trash on the way out of the campground:
Tollway:
Bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay:
Walt Whitman Bridge over Delaware River:
Wide toll plaza:
Philadelphia:
Heavy traffic:
St John the Baptist church:
Another toll plaza:
Very close roadworks barrier:
Paladin on the dash leaving a rest area:
Another super-narrow toll plaza:
Heading towards Hershey:
Chicken:
Thousand Trails:
Following our coach to our site:
Our site:
We drove our coach 178 miles, about three hours of driving, from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland.
We had planned to drive double that distance to our next destination, which would have been over six hours driving, but we wisely decided to split that up into two legs. We prefer to limit travel days to around three hours.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
Leaving our site:
Exiting the campground:
Fun with zoom:
Drawbridge:
I-64 West:
I-95 North:
Exit:
Fuel stop:
Parking with trucks; since we can’t reverse with our toad attached, we need to find back-to-back sites we can pull through:
Heading in for lunch:
Popeyes for lunch:
Back to our coach:
Paladin on the dash:
Oversize load:
Lots of traffic on the other side:
Fun with zoom:
Paladin on the dash:
National Museum of the Marine Corps:
Truck rest area:
Heavy traffic:
Breakdown?
“Caution Horses”:
Lanes divide:
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge:
Maryland Welcomes You:
I-95 and I-495 North:
Swoopers; two cars going into the lane in front of us:
Exit to College Park:
Arriving at Cherry Hill Park:
Security gate:
Our site:
In order to get to our site we needed to head between cabins to loop around:
Approaching our site:
We drove our coach 104 miles, about two hours of driving, from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northeast:
An interactive map:
I-95 North:
Exit to I-295 North:
Bridge over James River:
James River:
Exit to I-64:
Virginia Welcome Center:
“Virginia is for Lovers”:
Brochures:
I collected a bunch:
Back to our coach:
Route 33 east:
Bridge by a packaging products plant:
Mattaponi River:
Route 198:
Arriving at Thousand Trails Cheaspeake Bay:
This was the first day the campground was open for the season, so there was a long line to check in. We joined the line at 12:53 (check in started at noon):
At 13:00:
At 13:21:
Guided to our site (unnecessarily, it wasn’t hard to find) at 13:30:
Our site:
We drove our coach 301 miles, about five hours of driving, from Charleston, South Carolina to Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
Preparing to leave our site:
Nice looking but mildly concerning trees overhanging the road:
Approaching Charleston:
Roadworks:
Exit to I-95 North:
Rest area, unusual in that truck parking is through the car parking:
Paladin looking at Lake Marion bridge:
Petro fuel stop:
$206.27 for 57 gallons of diesel before discount:
Iron Skillet lunch:
Back to our coach:
Hello fellow Tiffin Allegro Bus:
Welcome to North Carolina:
Sleepy Paladin:
Rest area:
An interesting building:
Arriving at Holly Point Campground in Falls Lake State Recreation Area:
Entrance station:
Arriving at our site:
We drove our coach 214 miles, about five hours of driving, from Saint Marys, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
Joining I-95 North:
Bridge:
Buc-ees under construction:
Rest area:
Paladin on the driver chair:
Rainy:
Having a snack while watching the map showing lightning nearby:
US Air Force plane outside an Air Force museum:
Heavy traffic:
Welcome to South Carolina:
Rest area:
Charleston exit:
Arriving at James Island County Park:
Check in:
Arriving at our site:
We drove our coach 273 miles, about five hours of driving, from Wauchula, Florida to Saint Marys, Georgia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
A tight corner leaving the campground, made more tricky by vehicles parked close to the road, but we didn’t have any difficulties:
I-4 East:
Rest area:
Heavy traffic and an RV on the side of the freeway:
Traffic cams with our coach:
Passing downtown Orlando:
I-95 North; we appreciate road markings on lanes to make it very clear where we need to be:
Snuggly Paladin:
Handy rest area truck parking spaces available sign:
Rest area:
I suspect they don’t want anyone parking there:
Fuel stop:
$296.20 of diesel, before our discount:
Rainy:
The Napoleon Bonaparte Broward bridge aka Dames Point bridge in Jacksonville, lost in the clouds. Apparently some Floridians are scared of this bridge, because it’s so high (and Floridians aren’t used to high places, being such a flat state!):
Thank you for visiting Florida:
Welcome to Georgia, state of inconveniently-placed poles:
Sub outside Kings Bay Sub Base:
Crooked River State Park:
Our site:
We drove our coach 68 miles, about 1.5 hours of driving, from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south (though we actually took the route closer to Lakeland):
An interactive map, showing our actual route:
Pulling out of our site:
Line to leave TTO:
A gate ranger collecting site tags:
Can only turn right out of TTO, so we needed to do a U-turn to head south; we’d done it before, so know it’s easy for us:
Another RV doing the U-turn:
Us doing the U-turn; doesn’t look like it here, but there was heaps of room, didn’t even need to go into the bike lane:
Passing an accident:
I-4 West:
Route 570 toll road:
Route 98 South:
Turn:
17 / 98 South:
Paladin on the dash:
An interesting building in Bowling Green:
Arriving at Thousnd Trails Peace River:
Check in line:
