WANDERING WILBURY'S: January 2019

Saturday, January 26, 2019

St. Augustine FL. - Oldest City in the USA

Geni and I paid a visit to St. Augustine FL. last week and boy were we impressed with the history of this City! The whole city is a National Historic Landmark, with many buildings dating to the early 1700's! It also has a really amazing Spanish fort, Spanish military base established in 1565 by Don Pedro Menéndez de Aviles.(It was closed for gov shut down). The Spanish Mission Church
built in 1797 was incredible in size and detail! The cobble stone streets are just as they were when Florida was a Spanish colony. The Part of Ponce de León's 1513 claim to La Florida.
LINK: https://www.tripstodiscover.com/historic-sites-in-st-augustine-fl/
CHURCH LINK: http://cannundrum.blogspot.com/2013/02/cathedral-basilica-of-st-augustine.html
FORT LINK: https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm

Cobble stone streets

Spanish Fort

Entrance to Church

Gateway to City

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

FORT CLINCH STATE PARK - 1860's Civil War Fort in Flordia

Our Good Friends Clark and Elaine paid us a visit at Crooked River State Park last week and were we glad to see them! We worked with them in Yellowstone National Park in 2017 and have kept in touch every since. That is really the essence of this wandering lifestyle we live, we travel and see incredible sites but the real fulfillment is all the wonderful people we meet along the way! We have met so many awesome people and they all have a story to tell and we listen and learn from them.

Clark and Elaine stopped by for two days and we always enjoy their company. We drove down to Fort Clinch State Park on Amelia Island along the Atlantic Coast. This site was first fortified in 1736 by the Spanish, when they held colonies in Florida. This large well restored brick fortress was built in 1847 and was occupied by both the Confederate and Union soldiers. We were here twice and the first time it was totally staffed with Confederate soldiers, every first Saturday of the Month they fully dress and act as they were in the 1860's and its called " living History Weekend".
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Clinch
LINK: https://ameliaislandliving.com/fernandinabeach/2016/03/fort-clinch-garrison-weekends-aerial-video-birds-eye-view/

Our Friends Clark & Elaine

Their really cool Classic 1982 Newell Motorhome

Enlisted Men's bunks

Brick detail

Overlooks the Atlantic Ocean

34-star round Flag United States of America 1861-1863

Entrance

Very large Cannons to defend Florida Coast

Very nice indoor museum

"The Brig" may have caught an orb

Enlisted Men's bunks

Black Smith

Ordnance room

Cooking 1860's style

Small Cannon Room

Changing of guard

Officers Quarters

Thursday, January 10, 2019

2019 HAPPY NEW YEAR - oUR LIFE IS A vacation

Geni and I want to wish everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for following us this past year in our Wandering life thurout our Beautiful USA.
This past year has been amazing for us in our travels we logged more then 10,000 miles and visited 17 states! We have met some really incredible people along the way that we will never forget.

How the time flies by, its going on 2 years now since I retired and some days I really don't know what day of the week it is. We really are on Vacation everyday and can plan our day out or not.