Planning the trip

That's me and Wallie above. You guess which is which

For the last few years I have been bitching about the harsh winters we've been having in Maine. But since my wife lives off the public tit (works for the government) and can't retire for four years, we've had to endure the winters while enjoying the summers on our seaside estate on Campobello Island. Over the summer we lost our dogs Anna Mae and Duncan (a springer spanial and cairn terrier), but gained a nut in the form of a year and a half old brindle scottish terrier who loves the snow but also likes to travel. So it seemed the perfect time to, as they say at Delta Tau Chi, go on a road trip, in search of the perfect location to settle our plump butts for the winter after retirement. So, on January 21, Wallace aka Wallie and I hit the trail in search of a winter hideout where the snow don't fall and the mean daily temp is at least 50 degrees.

The idea is to zip thru New England, NY, New Joisey, and Pennsylvania at warp speed, and then ease back to cruising speed thru Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia looking for small towns or villages that look like a nice place to park our butts from Thanksgiving to Easter each year. All the while posting pictures of Wallie in front of kitschy locales like, say, Pedros South of the Border.

Eventually I will pick my wife up at the airport in Sanford, Florida on the 29th of January and we will spend a week meandering down to Fort Myers where we will take the ferry to Key West for a few days. Wallie, alas, will have to ride the ferry in his crate.

After that I will figure how to get back to Maine.