One of the advantages of traveling without reservations is the ability to change plans while enroute as we did today. After three hours on the road a bit of weariness set in. (And that’s after a late night last night and a few busy hours this morning preparing the house for our protracted absense.) At that point with the help of a couple of iOs apps, we set our sights for Indian Mountain State Park near Jellico TN. We were set up on site 17 in time to crawl into the T@B for a nap before a bodacious thunderstorm hit. Now we’re preparing a cup of green tea (the first use of our MSR backpacker stove) and to bring up the latest episode of Tiny House Nation while the rain continues to fall outside. An advantage to this afternoon’s change of plans is that we’ll cut at least an hour off our total travel time to tomorrow’s destination of Paynestown SRA where we actually do have reservations!
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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