On the road for real

We're on the road for real now. After breakfast on Monday morning at the Silver Dollar Diner in Reston and a quick stop in Trader Joe's for a few things we headed south. Hit some traffic (naturally) but after we got onto I95 things thinned out.

Lily surprised us both when she decided that she really needed to be on David's lap as he drove. She's never done that before...guess there is always a first time.

We had no major traffic issues getting to Carolina Beach State Park near Wilmington, NC. And once in the park found that there appeared to be only the campground host and ourselves in the entire state park! Most of Monday was either travel or getting ourselves set up in the camp ground.

Tuesday we awoke to some cloud cover but at least the temperatures have been in the 50's. We are camping very near the Cape Fear river which does attract different wildlife to the campground. Paul spotted two deer and we've seen some interesting birds. Dee saw a Banded Kingfisher and we all saw a brown-headed nuthatch working away at a dead tree! We heard Eastern Towhees scratching up the leaves looking for food on a nice hike through the park.

Paul and Dee head out on one of the many trails in Carolina Beach State Park.

brown-headed nuthatch watching us watching him

Brown-headed nuthatch flinging off bits of bark from the dead tree.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) we head for the Savannah area of Georgia and maybe some warmer weather too!