When we started into this adventure, I approached it as a way to see different areas of the country, and possibly decide where we might like to live.  That was assuming that the nomadic lifestyle was not going to be a permanent one.  So in my mind I thought that we would go somewhere that we might want to consider and basically live there for a month.  That way we'd really get a feel for the place.

So now we're 4 months in and we've only been in 2 places for a month's duration.  Everywhere else has been either just a shorter visit, or a stop along the way to somewhere. So far we've been in something like 18 different locations.  And as it might be easy to start forgetting where we've been, I created a map of our travels.  You can get to it from the main blog page ( 2016 Travels ).

Here's a bit of a broad overview of our travel "plan".  We had always wanted to see Acadia National Park in Maine, but never got out that way.  So we set that as our first destination.  But with my niece getting married at the end of September in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we needed to stay around the midwest after hitting the road in August.  So we went up to Door County in Wisconsin for a month, and then meandered through Michigan until the wedding.  Then we needed to hustle out to Maine before things got too cold there and the parks start closing for the season.  Our next destination is Florida.  We decided to spend our first winter there and have January through early April all planned.  So after Maine, we will just work our way down the east coast, getting to Florida by January.   Right now we are in Williamsburg Virginia for the month of November.

Along the way we've found interesting things everywhere we've stopped.  We stopped at a couple wineries, one in Ohio and the second in New York. Jane wrote about the Ohio one already (see Guests in a Vineyard) and the second was basically just a tasting house next to an apple orchard.  The real vineyard and winery was somewhere else.  But as the season was slow, and their parking lot was big, they offered to let us stay a couple nights.  Given that the price was right (free) and the location was near Watkins Glen, we accepted the offer.

We spent a day hiking in Watkins Glen, which is this cool canyon formation in the finger lakes region of New York. Here's a few pics of it.  I tried to show some with people in them so you can get a size perspective.