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First of October

 It is October and I'm done with the Great Cycle Challenge. Jan and I spent the first part of last week RVing it. We rented an RV to travel north to visit Austin and Morgan in Raleigh. This was our first visit with Austin after he proposed to Morgan. We are very excited about the coming nuptials. Morgan is a nice girl and we are happy to have her become part of our family. 

We rented an RV from a company called RVshare. It is kinda like Airbnb on wheels.  

We chose for this trip a 24 foot class "B" RV. The family we rented from were quite nice and explained about traveling in an RV quite well. My favourite part of traveling in an RV is that packing you just carry clothes from your closet to the closet in the RV. My least favorite part was empting the "holding" tanks. 
Click to see the inside of our RV

This trip also gave us a chance to meet Austin's new dog Roo. Roo is an Australian Blue Heeler and is very active.  She likes to play and go on long walks, fortunately Austin does too.  We went with Austin
and Roo one day on one of their walks. Most of the time we walked on sidewalks but occasionally we "took the road less traveled" . Austin has always liked to explore and he showed us some of the secret paths near his home. 



We also got to spend some time with Morgan. Both she and Austin are working for home at this time. Austin has an office set up downstairs and Morgan has her office upstairs. Both have been able to adapt to this very well. Both Morgan and Austin seem to be very happy and have made a very comfortable home for themselves. Austin is a lot neater than I remember when he was living under our roof. Morgan seems to be a good influence on him.We spent a lot of time on their back porch. Both playing games and sharing meals. Austin is quite the cook and we used his BIG grill several times. 

On our way back to Safety Harbor we decided to make a stop in Fernandina to visit our good friends Mark, Jenny and their daughter Amelia. We found a campsite at Fort Clinch State Park. After setting up camp we met for dinner The Crab Trap in Fernandina. 

The next morning we met for breakfast and then a walk on the beach near the fort.

Overall this was a good first big RV trip for Jan and I. We discovered what we liked and what we could change. We will plan on renting a few more RV's to learn what size we feel more comfortable with.




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