https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:52:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/florida-land-of-sunshine/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:20:23 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/florida-land-of-sunshine/   We arrived in Florida from Savannah and after passing through Jacksonville, we took the A-1-A highway to Daytona Beach; what a pretty drive right along the coast for the most part; lots of high end properties, small beach towns and plenty of sunshine. We checked into the resort which turned out to be right […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-carolinas-georgia/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:06:10 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/the-carolinas-georgia/ The Carolinas We left Roanoke, Virginia and drove directly to Charlotte, North Carolina where we spent four nights in a hotel as Doug had a few days of work to do and needed internet to do so. Timing worked well for the weather as it rained most of Sunday but cleared on Monday and reached […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/virginia/ Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:17:41 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/virginia/ We crossed the state line into Virginia and headed southeast stopping in Fredericksburg, the site of some Civil war Battles. A lot of history here and we toured one battlefield where we saw a house that still stands today, the rebuilt and original stone wall the confederates built to stand behind and a very well […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/pa-de-md/ Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:40:48 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/pa-de-md/   Pennsylvania After flying back to Philadelphia we picked up a rental car and drove back to New Jersey as Doug was asked to spend a week helping out on the Goethals’s bridge project. We stayed a hotel on Staten Island for the week. Fran enjoyed a day catching the free Staten Island Ferry to […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/3-weeks-back-in-bc/ Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:25:33 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/3-weeks-back-in-bc/   We arrived in Seattle on Sunday am and met up with Serena. We picked up a rental car, loaded up and drove to our mini storage location to drop off a few things and pick up others. Then we picked up our Honda from its storage place. The reason we got a rental was […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/northeast-us/ Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:44:28 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/northeast-us/   Rhode Island This was our first time to Rhode Island (knocking another state off the list!) We left East Stoneham, Maine on October 4th and went south through New Hampshire and Massachusetts (around Boston) to Providence. It was drizzly day so good for driving but not so well for site seeing. The rain stopped […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/maine-usa/ Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:59:45 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/maine-usa/ After completing our “great Canadian road trip” we wanted to head south and keep ahead of the cold weather. We did have a few cold mornings already in New Brunswick & Nova Scotia, we were cutting it close. Tigger is not well insulated against the cold although we do have a furnace. We drove to […]]]>