Travel is often considered as a way to relax and renew, and that it does. But you don’t always want to renew your vehicles while traveling! On the trip down here, we had a glitch with the braking device in the car,which actuates when the RV brakes are applied. It was partially applied when itshouldn’t have been! The result was wearing down the car battery and damaging the rear brakes. So we had to install a new battey and have a brake job done on the rear brakes.
Fortunately, we knew both of these repairs were on thehorizon even before the mishap on the road.
When traveling in the RV, we always think about having alittle more space, even though we have quite a bit already. Visiting Ripley’sBelieve it or Not museum, we saw a house built from a hollowed out log thatactually made the RV look spacious!
Speaking of houses, this sign at the Dow Museum of HistoricHouses says a lot about the age of St. Augustine.
Kenneth Dow was a collector of all types of artifacts, and fortunately for us, that included the nine homes on the museum grounds thatdate from 1790 to 1910. This homewas owned by notable resident, Napolean Achille Murat, nephew of NapoleanBonaparte. He emigrated here when Napolean was defeated.
Murat’s wife was a grand niece of George Washington and shebecame the first Princess in the US when she married Murat. Most of the homeswere moved here from other places in town by Mr. Dow. The pic below is apanoramic view of some of them followed by a picture of a crooked house. Mostof the homes were open except for the crooked house below that has been known to givevisitors vertigo.
That same problem, vertigo, helped Anne decide not to walkup the 264 stairs to the lighthouse near our campground. She was concernedabout getting down….
Views of the city were great .....
and the boatyard, where craftsmen were building wooden boats was interesting.
During the months of December and January, St. Augustine has a neat light display downtown. These pics turned out better than expected for us.
When we came back to the RV, someone was misbehaving …..
But then again it must get a little boring being in the RV all thetime.
Neat lighthouse! I would have climbed it.
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