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We spent a somewhat interesting week in Auburn.
Not as much to do in Auburn in we had expected.
The Montgomery Zoo was cool as was a city pool with nice diving boards.

We arrived at the Morganton Point Recreation Area late on Friday night .
The Recreation Area is in northern Georgia on Lake Blue Ridge.
What a beautiful camp site – #11 is isolated away from the others – you have to walk in to the site.
It is literally right on the water with easy access to fishing and swimming.
We were there June 21-23rd.

On our first day on the road we went through an amazing tunnel in Alabama.
We are still trying to find the picture of the tunnel.
After leaving the tunnel, we came out the other side to find a battleship!!!

USS Alabama

It was an area of land full of military weapons and stuff.

We loved visiting the U.S.S. Alabama and all of the other cool vehicles on the site.

Onward to Auburn!

It is June 16th, 2012.

The second leg of the 2011 road trip has begun.  We are headed to Fayetteville, AR and will see lots of sights there. So far, we stopped off at Caddo Lake in Northeast, Texas.  What a great spot to hang out if it was not so HOT! The lake and Cypress trees are amazing.  A daddy long legs hitched a ride on my dad’s leg and those spiders are huge. We saw Cypress knees that were bigger than we are, but the mud was really deep getting there!  We are pretty sure that Squatchs live in these woods and the BFRO needs to investigate.  We looked for Squatchs in Flo-ridah, but just did not have time to look for them at Caddo Lake.  Click our ads to the right – make us millionaires!

Cado Lake Trail

Cado Lake View

Cado Lake Sunset

Well, this is our first attempt at video production and we think it came out pretty good for two little kids.  We used Windows Movie Maker and it worked out okay.

We will be posting our videos as we get them cleaned up.  This is the first one and we hope you enjoy it.
Ben saw these hawks at Monument Rock in Kansas.  He used his Jedi animal powers to get close to them.

Well, the mighty 30 day road-trip challenge is over and we all survived.
We hit 16 states in roughly 30 days and had a great time doing it.
We camped and hiked all over the greater United States.
We are glad to be home, but our feet are already getting itchy.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail is starting to take shape as a future adventure.

On our way to Destin, we took a tip from Drive-ins, Diners, and Dives and hit the Metro Diner in Jacksonville, Florida.  It was goooooood and we are glad we took time to stop.

We also took the Man vs. Food advice and hit Deanie’s Seafood in Bucktown – just north of  New Orleans.  It was very good and well worth the stop.  We did our own little Man vs. Food using the lunch special – the mate platter.  Sam and Ben tried their hardest to eat it all in 45 minutes and just could not do it.  The mate platter had the option of shrimp, catfish, and/or oysters.  We all had a bit of all of it.  In the end, food won!

We are working on a few wrap-up posts for some of the spots where we spent the most time, like the Black Hills.  We will post overviews of the locations and what to do in each spot and such.  Videos and pictures are on the way as well.

Ice-ice-baby-A1A-beach_front_avenue
Flo-ridah is awesome, but it is a bit hot – much like Texas.
We made the trek from North Carolina down to Florida and it just kept getting hotter.
Harry Potter land is on the radar, but it apparently on the radar of everyone else as well.

Well,  what a cool city this was.  We spent five days here and have loads to say about this place.
We started out by caving at Diamond Caverns and ending up caving and camping at Mammoth Cave.

Diamond Caverns

The Mammoth Cave campground is awesome, but DO NOT camp in the sites adjacent to the bath rooms.
We camped in site 12 and it was next to a bathroom and the light and noise was worse than expected.
The motion flood-lights are really bright and they ruin the camping experience.
We did not visit all 7 caves in the Bowling-Green area, but the two we checked out were the best we think.

We hit the Beech Bend amusement park in the middle along with quite a few other local stops.
The Kentucky Rumber is the bomb-diggitty and so was the tiltin-whirl!
Hand-breaded corn dogs and pretzels are hard to beat.

Michael Jackson used to own this.

Kentucky Rumbler

Tilt-in Whirl - Just like at the state fair!

This city is really cool and has tons for us kids to do that does not cost an arm and a leg.

There are tons of local parks that are free and very kid friendly.

Circus Park

Circus Park