cosmicatastrophe

Good, we've been living here in Jacksonville (Florida) since late September; we bought a house here after living in an apartment (complex) for about two months. The move down from New Jersey was interesting to say the least. We actually got to Ocean City (Maryland) much quicker than initially thought after making (more than?) enough time for the Cape May (New Jersey)-Lewes (Delaware) Ferry across the Delaware (River) Bay. After that (and having enough of Maryland's famous crabs and crab cakes at an actual Crab House/Crab Shack restaurant, in Ocean City), we actually drove along the Eastern Shore of Virginia with a stop at the last ferry landing in use before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel came into use (back in the day, and that was more than fifty years ago! this ferry landing has since been turned into a Virginia State Park). And of course we drove across and through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, which has unique views of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean (in the Tidewater region of Virginia). Upon reaching the area known as South Hampton Roads (also in Virginia), we drove along the coast of Virginia (passing through First Landing State Park) in Virginia Beach before stopping to eat in Virginia Beach (where we COULD have stayed for a night instead of Ocean City had we planned better). After that, we actually drove THROUGH the heart of South Hampton Roads (aka Norfolk, Virginia) on our way out of the region. Once we left South Hampton Roads, we made our way south again, this time through interesting scenery in North Carolina (passing east of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Cary). While we could've stayed the night somewhere else in the Carolinas, such as Florence (South Carolina), Greenville (North Carolina), Rocky Mount (North Carolina), Columbia (South Carolina), etc., we ended up stopping for the night in Fayetteville (North Carolina). We did, however, stop (almost TOO briefly) in Savannah (Georgia). And once we drove across the North Carolina-South Carolina state line border, things went, well, south of the border. lol

Thanks again! :'D