Nov. 19 we pulled out of Lake Aire RV Park and headed off south on US 17 a little ways north of Savannah, Ga. We joined up with I-95 south bound. Made good time and covered 300 miles today to Beverley Beach Camptown in Flagler Beach, FL, right on the Atlantic Ocean. Bad news! Still setting record low temps even here but enough about the weather… for you guys up north it was still in the 60’s during the day.
We are about 30 miles south of the oldest city in USA, on A1A. Seeing as how old cities and history has been the theme of this trip, next up is St. Augustine, FL.
We downloaded the trike and set off for St. Augustine, and once again Bruce decided the best way for us to cover the city was by tour tram train.
St. Augustine is 443 years old and the downtown area is still made of narrow brick paved streets, some open to foot traffic only, others are only one way.
Our first stop was the Fountain of Youth, a perpetual spring that Juan Ponce de Leon, who was the first European to discover this in 1513 then claimed all of North America for Spain, called La Flori(ee)-da. He was not able to start a lasting community at that time.
There was a huge Live Oak tree called “The Senator” that was 600 years old,
Didn't like that they had the Fountain of Youth fenced, it looked so touristy. Well, duh!
We saw a lot of artifacts, and we drank the water from the famed Fountain of Youth…Don’t feel any younger!
Pedro Men’edez established the town of St. Augustine 1565 and it has been continually inhabited since that time. We visited the oldest house in the USA, with its’ four centuries of history.
This desk was in The Oldest House and said to have been used to write parts the Declaration Of the United States by one of the signers. (can't remember which one.)
This little girl posed for me at the Oldest House. The interpreter put the glasses and hat on her.
Then we saw the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse made from Cypress wood. It was built in1763 and remains the same as it was then, (I think the mannequins in the schoolhouse are NOT what they had, but gives us an idea anyway!).
We also saw the Castillo de San Marcos, which is an old fort and a national park. It was interesting as old forts go.
Ready... aim... fire!
The Lightner Museum was very large so we spent some time in there…a lot of nice stuff.
We thought we were in Texas again, for a minute there!
Lynn has an antique punch bowl made out one of these types of crystal.
The Lightner Museum, formerly a luxury hotel was ahead of its' time with a sauna room.
We walked through the Spanish Quarter, a working period village that had quite a few interesting exhibits.
All in all there are a lot of interesting places and museums to see.We enjoyed the two days time spent here. Could have gone back one more day, but we got sick.
There were school children everywhere we went, so we think we were exposed to a few germs combined with two days of very cold motorcycle rides back and forth from St Augustine. We both came down with colds, so the rest of our time at Flagler Beach was spent sitting in the sun beside the trailer enjoying a good book and sorting state quarters, (and dosing ourselves with cough drops, Musinex and Zicam!)
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