Hotels, Motels, Cabins - oh my!!

Whew!  Lodging is booked for 5 of the 7 destinations.  A cabin on a river in Bryson City, a "green" boutique hotel in St. Augustine, a chain hotel in Savannah, but Atlanta & Charlotte are proving much more tricky.  Prices are high - even with my sweeeet teacher discount.  Parking & tax add over $50 a day to the rate.  Ain't nobody got time for that!

This conundrum led me to vrbo.com.  Oh VRBO, where have you been all my life?!  I found an awesome place in midtown Atlanta.  1 bedroom in a high rise condo, kitchen, free parking, doorman, wi-fi, $99 a night (maybe we'll just live there!).   So I started to to look for a place in Charlotte, the town I consider my "Hometown".

Hmmmm... a pied a terre in Myers park, a town home in Dilworth, a cottage in the Cotswold area, and then I saw something that made my heart stop.  And then it started again, but it was beating fast!  A large 1 bedroom in the Elizabeth area.  How fun, how cool!  I had lived in that area long ago, and already loved it's eclectic feel, but when I clicked on the listing I couldn't believe my eyes!  Could it actually be?  My first apartment!

I would know that building anywhere!  This was it (Click to see!), I just know it! Of course it goes without saying that the gorgeous place has a decidedly different look than it did when I lived there.  Somehow our yard sale finds & childhood home hand-me-downs didn't achieve the designer look the space now has, but the front of that building was alllllll too familiar.

1989,  I was a mere 19 years old.   It was time to escape my parent's house and Anne, my best best friend & I had found 2100 E. 7th street.  A looooong way from where I grew up off Albemarle rd. but I didn't care, the price was right, Anne was by my side as my perfect roommate, & we were ready.   It was the coolest building - LOTS of unique people living in each unit, and even now my memories of that place are some of the most favorite that I have.  It was an amazing year.  And to think I may  actually be able to stay there with my daughters?  Oh, how I hope the walls can't really talk :).

This is the sad part where I have to write I was wrong - guess I wouldn't know the building anywhere.  This isn't 2100 E. 7th st.  It's 1 block over.  Shucks!  Not gonna lie - the idea of it being the same place sure was fun for a couple days.  Oh well- we're keeping it on our short list of possibilities.

~ Regan

Hitting the Road

123 days, & yes, we are counting

**SIGH** It's so hard!  It's February and all I can think about is our trip in JUNE!  So long away.  Too long away!

Savannah, Sage, & I are hitting the road this summer, we have a slight case of wanderlust.   Unfortunately Tom has to work & doesn't get summers off like we do, so sadly he can't join us.  With a daughter who will be in her 15th summer I'm feeling that the time is slipping away & before I know it, we'll be packing for college instead of our Summer Adventures.  I've got to savor the time we have.  It will be a mother - daughter(s), sister-sister (as the girls call themselves) getaway.

Mushy gushy I know, but I've got to say I'm the luckiest Mom ever & I just treasure our special Mother - Daughter bond.  We thought it would be fun to keep a blog of our adventure & the girls came up with the title - all 3 of us will author the posts.

Only 123 days....

Leaving June 11th!  Here's where we are headed...

 *  #1   Cocoa Beach, Fl.  

 *  # 2.  St. Augustine.  

 *  # 3.  Brunswick, GA.

 *   #4.   Savannah, GA.  

 *  # 5.   Charlotte, NC.

 *  # 6.   Bryson City., NC.  

*   # 7.   Atlanta, GA.  

 *  # 8.    Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

 * Home. June 27th


~ Regan

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