A Big Travel Weekend

SATURDAY:   We left Myrtle Beach around 9:00 AM and drove until about 9:00 PM.  We had planned to camp on the north side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (aka "The Chunnel"), but, after the crossing, it was only 6:00 and George felt like driving farther up the road.  The problem with doing so was that we were literally in the middle of nowhere so we ended up spending the night in a Walmart parking lot!  Our first experience but it worked.  George checked in with the manager of the store and they were more than accommodating to us.  Why?  Because we spend lots of money in their store.  Our neighbors were a couple in a large rental truck pulling a very big sailboat.

 

Back to The Chunnel experience.....this was our second time crossing The Chunnel so we were not as nervous this time.  It was not a windy day and our BRT made it just fine.  It's still amazing to me that we were actually driving UNDER the bay.

Coming out of the Chunnel

 

SUNDAY:  The motorhome is a mess...stuff is everywhere. George slept on the sofa and I slept crosswise on the bed as we could not open the slides in the Walmart parking lot.  I gave him the comforter off the bed and I used a throw and a sheet as my cover. Amazingly, we slept pretty well.  As accommodating as Walmart is, they want you out of the parking lot at an early hour so their otherwise paying customers can have a place to park.  I threw everything on the bed, grabbed a clean shirt and we were out of there by 8:00 but not before having coffee and a Special K Flatbread Sandwich...these are pretty tasty when in a hurry.

 

Since we now have plenty of time to get to our destination, I coaxed George to take the scenic route through Ocean City, MD.  He was relunctant to deviate from the designated route as you never know about detours, low bridges, etc but he decided to try it.  Glad we did as it was the most beautiful drive. I've never been to Ocean City, home of my friend Heather Devlin, but heard a lot about it from her. Ocean City is home to such famous bars as "Big Peckers Bar and Grill" and "Bull on the Beach". 

 

Now into Delaware, we passed through Fenwick Island, Bethany Beach and Rehoboth Beach, it was like spring had sprung as all of the trees and flowers I am accustomed to back home in Atlanta, were now in full bloom.



Quansa Cherry Tree

Red Bud Tree



Azaleas

More Azaleas

 

We checked into Timberlane RV Resort in Clarksboro, NJ a little after 1:00.  We've stayed here before but, this time, they put us in the back with the other "Big Rigs".  It's very nice and quiet back here. Once we got settled, we drove up to Marlton to meet Miss Coraline.  When Pauline handed her to me, an unexpected flood of emotions came over me as tears filled my eyes.  She is such a perfect little princess, very petite and dainty and very much a little girl..  She has the cutest little button nose and appears to have Mark's facial expressions of the mouth and a flood of dark hair.  I am in love in a way I've never been in love before.



Miss Coraline

Pappy and Miss Coraline