Livin' The Dream with Greg & Laura

We are officially back in New York, on the frigid Northeast coast! After my last post, Greg and I decided it was time to get back home. We chose to skip our next stop in the Poconos and make our way back to Long Island. We packed up the camper, jumped in the truck, and drove the long 5 hours (thanks to the famous GWB traffic😏, the ride took a bit longer), back home. It took us roughly 2 hours to empty the camper once we got home (lots of stuff pile up over 4 1/2 months on the road!), and another hour or so to bring it in the house...PHEW, it was a long day!! Nonetheless, we are absolutely THRILLED to be back in New York, our home base. The last two weeks have been spent catching up with some of you, visiting, laughing, telling about our journey.  Finally got to alleviate my "Savage withdrawal", seeing adorable Liam and Myles, ecstatic they hadn't forgotten us! We went to a MET game with Thomas and Rose and enjoyed our first ever tailgating experie...

First...Happy Easter and Azizan Pesach to all our beloved friends and family!!! We hope the Easter Bunny came your way, and the matzo is treating you well 😊. We are slowly getting back to our "home base". In an effort to greet us with open arms, Mother Nature is definitely welcoming us back home with typical East Coast weather...as it is snowing right now, out the window here in Pennsylvania!!!! Backing up a few days...our last stop in North Carolina, at the Falls Lake Recreation area, was lovely. Our campsite was on a hill in the woods overlooking Falls Lake. It was the backdrop for an absolutely beautiful sunset I was finally able to capture. One afternoon, while I got caught up on school work, Greg met up with Jimmy, an old buddy from work, who had relocated nearby. We had a couple campfires while we were there, and enjoyed the quiet forest. Next we made our way closer to the cherry blossom festival! We drove north to Pohick Bay Regional Park in Lorton, Virginia, ab...

It's hard to believe, but our journey is almost over😒...It is a bittersweet ending, but we are looking forward to enjoying the spring and summer back home, and to see all of you!!! We arrived at the Mount Pleasant/Charleston KOA, in South Carolina last week. We had a nice, big site, took a great nature walk around the lake that was on the grounds and enjoyed our 4 days there.  Unfortunately, cousin Bridgette didn't make it for our visit, thanks to the latest snow storm. We all were disappointed and cursed Mother Nature but are anxiously looking forward to the next time she can join us. The weather was kind of yucky, a bit chilly and windy during the day, but the evenings were lovely. Cousin Sean, who's enduring Navy training nearby, stopped by the campsite for dinner one night. He and his friend Coleman joined us for a delicious home-cooked meal of pulled pork. There was lots of catching up, and laughing as we sat around the campfire after dinner. One afterno...

Our time in Florida has officially come to an end, as well as the beautiful warm, sunny weather😔. We had a lovely few days in Palm Springs at the John Prince State Park Campgrounds. It was a nice drive, down Alligator Alley, enjoying the scenery and the many birds flying along with us. Wednesday afternoon, we drove to Jupiter, about 45 minutes away, to The Roger Dean Stadium, to catch my first ever Spring Training Baseball Game!! There we met up with our friends Frank and Tina, who flew down to hang with us (and stay with us later in the week) and to get away from the terrible New York weather. It was the NY Mets vs. the Miami Marlins, "batting it out"(haha) on a delightfully sunny Florida afternoon. The game wasn't all that exciting, but we had a great time nonetheless! After the game, Greg and I took the scenic route home and drove along the beach. There were huge houses (some beautiful, some NOT) on one side, and the clear blue-green water on the other side...absolut...

Thanks to all of you who sent us the good weather!! Aside from 1 afternoon of rain and heavy winds, the sun has been shining. We have been enjoying typical warm and humid Floridian weather. Last Wednesday, we left Northern Florida and made our way 250 miles south to Dade City, Florida. It was a nice, uneventful drive (we all know how much I love that😃!!), and we arrived at our next campsite in the early afternoon. We stayed at a resident owned community (which means there are a lot of full-time RVers), called Travelers Rest Resort, and it was absolutely lovely. There were lots of amenities- a pool, hot tub, shuffleboard courts, tennis and pickleball courts, "Mirror Lake", and a golf course, all on the grounds. Greg took advantage of the golf course one morning, and played a round with some new "friends". Later that day, before eating a delicious chicken dinner we were grilling, we took a walk around the beautiful lake, admiring the reflections of the pal...

Hello everybody!!!! After leaving Louisianna last week, we took a nice leisurely drive (about 4 hours) through Mississippi and Alabama, and arrived at Big Lagoon State Park in North Florida, just outside Pensacola along the panhandle. It was a beautiful and very quiet park, and we enjoyed our relaxing lay-low days while we were there. The weather was lovely, nice, warm and sunny. Even though there was no beach😒 for us to catch some rays, they did have a walking trail that ended at a pier overlooking the blue serene water. One of the mornings, we decided we deserved a breakfast out before heading out for our "touristy" day. We ended up crossing the border into Alabama, which was surprisingly close (imagine the distance between New York and New Jersey), at The Ruby Slipper, a yummy breakfast place serving delicious Southern food. We stopped along the beach in nearby Orange Beach, AL to stick our feet in the nice, soft sand. We then strolled through a farme...