{"id":1644,"date":"2017-10-15T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T22:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=1644"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:48:47","slug":"the-drive-home-sightseeing-and-visiting-friends-and-relatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/the-drive-home-sightseeing-and-visiting-friends-and-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive Home &#8211; sightseeing and visiting friends and relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we travel, we typically take a long flight to a destination, enjoy the vacation, and fly home.\u00a0 In a motorhome trip, most people just drive for a few days non-stop, the equivalent of flying to the destination. We choose to, as far as possible, take shorter days and stop in interesting places. It was an excellent choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/visiting_the_Wellmans-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1571\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/visiting_the_Wellmans-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On our way home from Blue Ridge Mountains, our first stop on the last leg of our trip was in Charlotte to visit Ariel and Matt Wellman and their lovely new baby, Natalie.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/index.php\/shearwater-iv\/2017-autumn-road-trip\/visit-charlotte-add-the-names-please-melbourne-and-the-jean-and-gary-glenn\/\">Click here to enjoy the visit with us.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/St-Augustine-wedding-and-lion-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1657\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/St-Augustine-wedding-and-lion-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We continued south after dinner and stopped at a Walmart parking lot for the night.\u00a0 The stop was much better than it sounds. We continued to Jacksonville and St. Augustine the next day, stopping in another Walmart that night. <a href=\"https:\/index.php\/camp-walmart-jacksonville-st-augustine-and-another-camp-walmart\/\">See the story of Camp Walmart, Jacksonville and St. Augustine by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1671\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Finally, after a second enjoyable Walmart night, we enjoyed breakfast on the Flagler Beach near Ft. Matanzas.\u00a0 We traveled on North for a lovely lunch with Jean and Gary Glenn in Melbourne, and continued home.<a href=\"https:\/index.php\/walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home\/\"> Follow this last leg by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we travel, we typically take a long flight to a destination, enjoy the vacation, and fly home.\u00a0 In a motorhome trip, most people just drive for a few days non-stop, the equivalent of flying to the destination. We choose to, as far as possible, take shorter days and stop in interesting places. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/the-drive-home-sightseeing-and-visiting-friends-and-relatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Drive Home &#8211; sightseeing and visiting friends and relatives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}