February 6, 2025 • 20 mins
🏕️ Our 2024 East Coast RV Adventure! 🏕️ | Must-See Destinations
If you're planning an East Coast road trip, we’ve got some must-visit spots you won’t want to miss! From catching the perfect view of the solar eclipse to devouring the best lobsta in Maine 🦞, we’re breaking down all the highlights from our 2024 travels. Did we miss a destination? Watch and find out!
🔥 What We Cover in This Episode:
✅ Solar Eclipse – Our epic viewing spot in Seymour, Indiana 🌒
✅ Washington, D.C. – Touring the nation’s capital 🇺🇸
✅ Maryland – Exploring National Harbor
✅ Virginia – Arlington & George Washington’s Mount Vernon
✅ Gettysburg, PA – Staying at the Battlefield B&B 🏚️
✅ Scranton, PA – Electric City surprises ⚡
✅ Maine – Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park & the best lobsta ever! 🦞
✅ Hershey, PA – The biggest RV show & indulging in way too much chocolate 🍫
While 2024 threw some wild challenges our way (hurricanes, tornados, back surgery, and 3 months in the repair shop 😅 - Ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXSV90S7VU), our East Coast adventures made it all worth it.
💬 What’s your favorite East Coast destination? Drop a comment and let us know!
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If you're planning an East Coast road trip, we’ve got some must-visit spots you won’t want to miss! From catching the perfect view of the solar eclipse to devouring the best lobsta in Maine 🦞, we’re breaking down all the highlights from our 2024 travels. Did we miss a destination? Watch and find out!
🔥 What We Cover in This Episode:
✅ Solar Eclipse – Our epic viewing spot in Seymour, Indiana 🌒
✅ Washington, D.C. – Touring the nation’s capital 🇺🇸
✅ Maryland – Exploring National Harbor
✅ Virginia – Arlington & George Washington’s Mount Vernon
✅ Gettysburg, PA – Staying at the Battlefield B&B 🏚️
✅ Scranton, PA – Electric City surprises ⚡
✅ Maine – Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park & the best lobsta ever! 🦞
✅ Hershey, PA – The biggest RV show & indulging in way too much chocolate 🍫
While 2024 threw some wild challenges our way (hurricanes, tornados, back surgery, and 3 months in the repair shop 😅 - Ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXSV90S7VU), our East Coast adventures made it all worth it.
💬 What’s your favorite East Coast destination? Drop a comment and let us know!
👉 Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE and hit that 🔔 to follow along on all our adventures (and misadventures)!
📌 Follow Us:
📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3MAV2sC
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🎙️ Podcast: https://bit.ly/3o2pC4a
🎵 TikTok: http://bit.ly/41hT1FB
🏕️ Happy Camping & Stay Safe Out There!
Byyyyeeeeeee! 🚐✨
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, podcast listener, thanks for listening to us on your
way to work or you know, to your next camping trip.
This is a YouTube first show, so if you want
the full experience, go check us out on YouTube too,
YouTube two, YouTube, Do Doo tube to do tub. We
can't show that people are gonna think you beat me
only at poker. I had an off week this week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, I don't know what to tell you. If you lost,
then you lost details. Have we got a deal for you?
Have you ever wanted to explore the East Coast? We'll
come to the Wandering RV Babe and Porium of Destinations
to see all the best things that you could find
on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Do we have an imporium? Now? Welcome to the Wandering
RV Show. Your source for our stories, our screw ups,
and our success is living the full time RV life.
I'm your host, Kara, the Wandering RV bab and this
is my driver round. Oh jeez, that's that's excessive, excessive.
(01:04):
How he did just this week, just this week, not
next week. It's not gonna happen. Redemption Week is coming.
But we talked about our year last year and it
was nuts. Tornado hurricane back surgery, crazy repairs on the RV.
If you want to hear the full story, we'll have
that linked somewhere, But that was on the previous episode.
(01:26):
This episode, we're talking about all of our travel plans
that we had earlier in the year. Wasn't all bad.
We had really a bunch of really cool places along
the East Coast, some musty destinations, and we're gonna tell
you about him right now. First up, last year, we
went to the solar eclipse, which was in April, and
we wanted to be right on the line of totality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So one of the spots totality.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Totality.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Wow, that sixth grade education.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I know that vocabulary is working really well today. I know,
I know. But one of those areas of totality was
in Seymour, Indiana. And yes, I know that's not on
the East Coast. We're gonna get to the East Coast
destinations because that's where we spent the majority of the year.
But first, the eclipse, it was fantastic. We hit Seymour,
(02:13):
Indiana and we stayed at the Weary Traveler, which was
actually really cool RB Park.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, and it's a brand new park. It's they're just
kind of getting set up and going. But it was awesome.
It was a lot of fun, and it was great
for that kind of event. If you want to see
the stars and not have any trees in your way.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's where you go, exactly right off the highway, so
it's not, you know, kind of that rustic out in
the middle of nowhere. But it's a perfect overnight stop
for RV's and in our case, we happened to have
kind of an end spot, so we had this huge
open grass field with no obstructions to the sky to
be able to see that eclipse firsthand. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Would you say it's a good place for a weary
traveler to stop off at?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Possibly, you know, that could be the really that could
be a good name for an RV.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Part Yeah, you know, yeah, someplace that you know, if
you're just traveling down the road and you're feeling kind
of weary. Yeah, I could I could get behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah. AnyWho. From there, we stopped off in Kentucky, as
you do, and we picked up some provisions, some apple juice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, when going to Kentucky, they have the best apple
juice on the market.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But then from there is our first East coast stop
that you can't miss. If you're on the East Coast,
you have to stop there. It's a musty destination. You
know we're gonna say it, Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't know you were going to say it. There's
a lot of things on the East coast. Washington d
C was not actually number one on my list.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It was number one on my list.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean I wanted to go, don't get me wrong,
but I was singing like Gaddy'sburg or Mount Vernon, Yeah
we went there too, or I don't know, Lobster in Maine.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, we went to all those places. Cat's right out
of the bag. You just kind of let the cat
out of the back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But No, Washington d C was amazing. We actually took
our bikes and we rode our bikes all through DC,
which was incredible. We got to see all the monuments.
They were actually doing some construction on Lincoln and it
was very, very busy while we were there. So I
definitely want to go back and see the Lincoln Monument
when they get it done, or the Lincoln Memorial, sorry,
Lincoln Memorial when they get it done.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They were making it more Ada accessible. It's a good thing.
It's a really good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It really was, and they were doing some restoration and
things like that, so all good things, but it was
a little bit of a construction zone when we went,
so definitely looking forward to going back to go see it.
The other thing that we did not get to see
was the Washington Monument.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Listen, everybody who was building monuments back in the day
had one particular thing on their mind. Anyways, that's true.
So funny enough, our first day into Washington, d C.
We weren't actually staying in Washington, d C. Because there's
not really any our I mean, there's one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
RV park, it might be an RV park. We didn't
stay there. We stay stay Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, So the one the first day we go into Washington,
d C. Is when I hurt my back.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It was it was bad.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The second day we went into Washington, d C. It
was too hot to go up in the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, they closed it down. Apparently there's no a c
up there, doesn't like not surprising.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I mean when that thing built, i mean, come on,
they couldn't have put eight AC in when they put
that thing in.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I'm pretty sure they did not have a c When
that thing was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Built, they probably had swamp coolers back then.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well yeah, but when you're trying to fit like I
don't know how many people that they try to fit
in that elevator that goes up there every single time,
and you know, no, well swamp cooler is going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean from what I saw in in Spider Man
No Way Home, the elevator you know, is not very sturdy.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Because Hollywood is where you go for all of your information.
If you see it in a movie, it must be true.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well that's so we wanted to go there so I
would have known if it was true or not. Listen,
I go to places because I saw them in movies.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, okay. Last place we didn't go to was the
Space and Something Museum, part of the Smithsonian Museum complex.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The one I wanted to go to the most.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I know, I'm sorry, it was so big. We went
to all Like most of the others, there's like seven
or eight different museums. It's crazy. The Smithsonian is not
just the Smithsonian Museum. It's like the Smithsonians exactly. But
we went to a lot of them. They were really
really cool. What was your favorite one? That we went to.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Jurassic Park was that the Natural History I think there
was a Natural History museum always badass.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Although like the one with the iPod was pretty cool too.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh yeah, that one was pretty cool. It made me
feel really really old though, because they had the iPod
as its own standalone exhibitage and they had a picture
of people using eye pods for the very first time.
It looked like an Apple advertisement or something. The picture
wasn't black and white. Come on, people, we had color
(07:08):
back then. We did not have black and white. They
just did us dirty in that whole exhibit, making it
older than it is.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We were in high school when the iPod came out.
We're not that old.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm pretty sure we still have an iPod.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That still works, if you still have an iPod.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But the DC area in general is just amazing. We
went to the National Harbor in Maine. No, we went
to the National Harbor in Maryland.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Which National Harbor were you as?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I was at the National Harbor in Maryland, and the
Air Force, the Navy, and I believe it was the
Marines did kind of this rotation every weekend during the
summer where they would put on a free concert for everybody,
and it was really really cool. Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But of course we had to go to Mount Vernon
because why would you go to the Washington in DC,
Virginia Maryland area and not go to Mount Vernon and
walk around the plantation.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was actually really cool. I have to say. George
Washington is certainly most famous for the Revolutionary War and
then of course being our first US president, but the.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Main really really is that what he's famous for.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, didn't you know that? I mean, come on, baby,
I toured DC, we toured Mount Vernon, ut I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Don't know that that that came up. Honestly, I feel
like his work in the French Indian War was far
more important.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, okay, Anyway, he was actually a really really ingenious,
enterprising businessman, and he had a distillery that was still
active and still working. He had obviously a plantation. He
had all kinds of things going on that was really
really cool. And we actually got to go in and
(08:53):
tour his home where he and Martha were, and see
you know, his deathbed where he passed away and.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Really kind of morbid, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We also went and saw Lincoln's instead bed and Ford Theater,
And yeah, it was. That was a morbid tour right there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There's a lot of morebit more morbid mombidity, morbidity, morbidity.
My sixth grade education is not helping.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
No, No, words are hard right now. Yeah, And maybe
some of your apple juice.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That you're drinking, maybe the apple juice will help.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Maybe it will.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
When when I was a kid, my mom always told
me to drink your apple juice cheers.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An apple
juice a day keeps somebody away, somebody away. But we
also did get to go to the tavern where George
Washington had his birthday at and they had a whole
meal that was like his favorite meal. It was.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was very very ta We go there on our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We did, We did go there on our anniversary.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We celebrated our anniversary at Washington's birthday dinner place.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yes, we had Washington's birthd dinner for our anniversary.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It was very flavorful, it was very tasty. We had
a bottle of wine and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Very cozy and intimate and they had like candle light going.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It wasn't real candles, no updated you know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, yeah, fire codes and all. But it was really cool.
And it's in the middle of Arlington, Virginia, which was beautiful.
There's all kinds of really good places to eat over
there as well, and it's right on the river. It
was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And then we went on a bed and breakfast ghost
tour in Gettysburg that was badass.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So we took a little bit of a break from
the camper and we turned off the water for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Always turn off the water when you go to leave
your camphor not, okay, maybe not every single day. There's
some people who do it every single day, and I
get it, and I understand there's a reason for that,
and I know why they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's good advice.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's good advice. But for us, we leave it running
because we're usually here and when we're not here, we're
not gone for very long. Do you turn the water
off when you go to bed at night? No, of
course not. You're in bed for eight hours, so if
you're gone for eight hours, it's about the same thing.
But we turned the water off. I think we might
have even turned the electricity. No, I don't think we
turned the electric yet. No, it just turned the as up,
(11:13):
so they weren't like running all the time exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But we left, we went to a lovely bed and breakfast.
It was the Battlefield bed and Breakfast friendly, yes, dog friendly.
In fact, Dodger was the only pop that entire weekend.
They loved her. All of the guests look Dodger though, exactly,
and all of the all of the bed and breakfast
staff really really loved her. And we found out after
(11:37):
we got back the Bed and Breakfast was actually haunted.
Who knew.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We watched an episode of ghost Hunters and they were
literally at the Bed and Breakfast and.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They saw a ghost in the grounds.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It was on the grounds. Yeah, it wasn't in the place,
and it was actually only like on the thermal imaging camera.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So who knows. If you believe in that stuff, then
that's kind of cool, and if you don't, then you don't.
We never actually had a real experience with a ghost
while we were there, but it sure was cool and
it's a really cool way to learn about history. So
anytime we go to especially a historical place that we're
you know, a city, New Orleans ghost tour is really awesome.
Just go. Whether you believe in it, or not. It's
a really fun way to learn about the history of
(12:17):
that particular location.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, ghost tours are really a fun way to just
experience a city. Like you don't have to believe whatsoever,
it's still fun. I believe tinkerbells flapping her wings right now.
And then Scritton, the Electric City Scretton is the electric
(12:39):
City Scranton.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, we went to the home of the Office and
it was great. We went to the train depot. I
don't remember what it's called.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Train museum of the train museum.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was actually really really cool. It was very awesome.
We got to ride on an actual steam locomotive and
go tour uh steam locomotives, and then find out all
kinds of history about it, which was super awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The reason that we went to Scranton is because we
were trying to meet up. The camera is focusing on her,
and she's like purposely trying to make sure that it
focuses on her, So I'm out of focus. So here
we go. I'm gonna come right in here, okay, guys.
So the reason that we went to Scranton is because
we were looking for somewhere to get together with family
(13:26):
for the fourth of July. That wasn't going to be busy.
Let me tell you, guys, it doesn't matter where you're
at at an RV park. Fourth of July always busy.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
True story. But the place that we stayed at in
Scranton was actually really cool. I don't remember the name
of it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why did you not do this in advance? I know,
hang on King Lake Campground. I'm pretty sure that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
King Lake Campground. So k ee Inn Lake Campground was awesome.
They had a beach, they had boats and kayaks for
for rental.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They had fishing at a a faerry that took you
across the lake. That's been like running for like.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That was a different campground, different campground.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, that was the one Screa. No, it was was
one in Hershey, Oh that was one on Hershey never, guys,
don't they called.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The Ferry Boat Campsites. We'll get to that here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Listen, I remember the name though, you did.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But Kanelink was really really cool. It's actually a really
great place to go, especially for summer camping, and we
had a blast while we were there. But of course
we're we're kind of the office fans, so we had
to go stop at some of the office spots around town.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, we we we ate at one of the bars
that they show in the in the show. We did
not go to the Applebe's because it is shut down.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What else did we do?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
The Houdini Museum That was interesting and then we went
to Maine, Maine during the summer. Is just.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It warms my cockles to think of the fresh lobster
in Maine.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, so we were right outside of Bangor, and in
Bangor there is a place called Eagle's Nest Restaurant. They
boast that they have the best lobster rolls they do,
and they do, Yeah, they do, they Yeah, they totally do.
They were about two miles away from our campground and
(15:25):
we went there almost every other day that we were
in town.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So there's, uh, there's a difference. You've got Maine lobster
rolls and you've got Connecticut lobster rolls. Connecticut lobster rolls
are worn with butter. Main loster rolls are cold with mayo.
Both are amazing. They do both, They did both, but
their main lobster roll so good. You got if you're
going to Maine to have lobster. You need to have
(15:50):
a Maine lobster roll.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes. And then one of the main things that we
really wanted to do while we were in Maine, I know,
you see what I see what I did there is
eat an actual lobster dinner. And we had an amazing
lobster dinner at the Traveling Lopso in bur Herber.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Bahaba, Traveling Lapsta.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Traveling Labstock and Bahaba. Anyway, it was really amazing. It
was really great. The fisherman that runs it, it's kind
of all outdoors. He gets up in the morning, he
goes and fishes for lobster. I think he said he
catches about two hundred a day and then he cooks
them up and sells them. And when they're run out,
they run out. So you got to get there early.
(16:28):
But we did end up. By that point Ryan's back
was in pretty bad shape, wasn't feeling super hot, but
we did manage on one of the days that he
was feeling good to go to Acadia National Park. And
I can say it was worth the trip.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It was worth it. We I mean, unfortunately, like Maine
is on our list of we have to go back
to because we had so much fun, and we feel
like we just kind of like scratched the surface of everything.
Maine has officers a lobster, Yeah, you Hafer, And what
I will say is, oh my gosh, it was so
(17:03):
good everything about it. The lobster was great, the scenery
was great. That that's that state is huge. There's so
much to do. Like I was going to the doctor
at that point, and the doctor's like sitting there during
our visit telling us things that we need to go
do and try while we're there, like they knew we're
in an RV and all that stuff. Like, so I'm
(17:23):
getting there trying to take care of my bag and
they're like, you need to go do this, you need
to go do this, you need to go do this.
I'm like, dude, I can't walk that much.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And of course on our way back, we had to
stop by the Hershey RV shows. So we kind of
did a double stop in Pennsylvania this year and went
to Hershey, which was super awesome. And while we were there,
of course, when in Rome, when in Hershey you go
to the Hershey World Chocolate or World cho World Hershey Chocolate,
that thing. You go to that thing and you make
your own candy bar, and man it was it was
(17:54):
so good. It was so tasty.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And you stay at the Ferryboat campground because then you
can ride a fairy boat.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
See that was the very boat that you were talking
about earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
We got there, adventure.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, we did get there.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It was Pennsylvania. I wasn't wrong about that, that is
very true. We have now been to three different places
in Pennsylvania. We have we Hare, Brenton, Hershey and Philly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes we have.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Tell us what else we're missing? Yeah, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Have we missed a place to go in your state?
Because if we have, now we got to add it
to the list. Bit you gotta tell us in the comments.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
So literally, that was our whole year for twenty twenty four.
And I get it. It's kind of crazy to think
about the fact that we had all this much fun,
all these crazy things, and all on only one coast.
But this is the fun of full time rving, that
even with an injured back, you can do so many
cool things and enjoy yourself and just explore the world exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And I don't even feel like we scratched the surface
of all the places that we could have gone to
on the East coast. There's still so many cool places
to go in the Carolinas, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, so
we definitely have those on the bucket list as well.
But if we missed one and you know a place
along the East coast that we should have gone to
or that we should go to in the future, put
(19:07):
it in the comments below. Okay, capers, we'd love to
stay connected. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
at Wandering our Debabe. Thanks for joining us. Let's do
it again next weekend. Happy camping. Hi. Pre game warm up?
See I need the pregame warm up?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What's what's the thing you're supposed to say, like chili
pepper's on a chili something, But there's a whole thing
you're supposed to like say repeatedly over and over again
to like get your warm up your vocals.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I have no idea what you're talking them out.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Chili peppers on a Come on, you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You don't know what.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Seriously don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure I
feel like you're I feel like you're wud I did.
I did have the look of like I'm totally like
messing with you, and I actually really don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's like chili peppers on a chili log or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
How is it? Why would you say a tongue twister
to get your vocal cords warmed up? That doesn't even
a warm of.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Your vocal cords. It warms up your lips or something.
I don't know what it warms up. Listen, I don't
know what I'm doing. Do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Not a clue?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Okay, that's what I thought.
Hey, podcast listener, thanks for listening to us on your
way to work or you know, to your next camping trip.
This is a YouTube first show, so if you want
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can't show that people are gonna think you beat me
only at poker. I had an off week this week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, I don't know what to tell you. If you lost,
then you lost details. Have we got a deal for you?
Have you ever wanted to explore the East Coast? We'll
come to the Wandering RV Babe and Porium of Destinations
to see all the best things that you could find
on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Do we have an imporium? Now? Welcome to the Wandering
RV Show. Your source for our stories, our screw ups,
and our success is living the full time RV life.
I'm your host, Kara, the Wandering RV bab and this
is my driver round. Oh jeez, that's that's excessive, excessive.
(01:04):
How he did just this week, just this week, not
next week. It's not gonna happen. Redemption Week is coming.
But we talked about our year last year and it
was nuts. Tornado hurricane back surgery, crazy repairs on the RV.
If you want to hear the full story, we'll have
that linked somewhere, But that was on the previous episode.
(01:26):
This episode, we're talking about all of our travel plans
that we had earlier in the year. Wasn't all bad.
We had really a bunch of really cool places along
the East Coast, some musty destinations, and we're gonna tell
you about him right now. First up, last year, we
went to the solar eclipse, which was in April, and
we wanted to be right on the line of totality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So one of the spots totality.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Totality.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Wow, that sixth grade education.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I know that vocabulary is working really well today. I know,
I know. But one of those areas of totality was
in Seymour, Indiana. And yes, I know that's not on
the East Coast. We're gonna get to the East Coast
destinations because that's where we spent the majority of the year.
But first, the eclipse, it was fantastic. We hit Seymour,
(02:13):
Indiana and we stayed at the Weary Traveler, which was
actually really cool RB Park.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, and it's a brand new park. It's they're just
kind of getting set up and going. But it was awesome.
It was a lot of fun, and it was great
for that kind of event. If you want to see
the stars and not have any trees in your way.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's where you go, exactly right off the highway, so
it's not, you know, kind of that rustic out in
the middle of nowhere. But it's a perfect overnight stop
for RV's and in our case, we happened to have
kind of an end spot, so we had this huge
open grass field with no obstructions to the sky to
be able to see that eclipse firsthand. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Would you say it's a good place for a weary
traveler to stop off at?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Possibly, you know, that could be the really that could
be a good name for an RV.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Part Yeah, you know, yeah, someplace that you know, if
you're just traveling down the road and you're feeling kind
of weary. Yeah, I could I could get behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah. AnyWho. From there, we stopped off in Kentucky, as
you do, and we picked up some provisions, some apple juice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, when going to Kentucky, they have the best apple
juice on the market.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But then from there is our first East coast stop
that you can't miss. If you're on the East Coast,
you have to stop there. It's a musty destination. You
know we're gonna say it, Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't know you were going to say it. There's
a lot of things on the East coast. Washington d
C was not actually number one on my list.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It was number one on my list.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean I wanted to go, don't get me wrong,
but I was singing like Gaddy'sburg or Mount Vernon, Yeah
we went there too, or I don't know, Lobster in Maine.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, we went to all those places. Cat's right out
of the bag. You just kind of let the cat
out of the back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But No, Washington d C was amazing. We actually took
our bikes and we rode our bikes all through DC,
which was incredible. We got to see all the monuments.
They were actually doing some construction on Lincoln and it
was very, very busy while we were there. So I
definitely want to go back and see the Lincoln Monument
when they get it done, or the Lincoln Memorial, sorry,
Lincoln Memorial when they get it done.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They were making it more Ada accessible. It's a good thing.
It's a really good thing.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It really was, and they were doing some restoration and
things like that, so all good things, but it was
a little bit of a construction zone when we went,
so definitely looking forward to going back to go see it.
The other thing that we did not get to see
was the Washington Monument.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Listen, everybody who was building monuments back in the day
had one particular thing on their mind. Anyways, that's true.
So funny enough, our first day into Washington, d C.
We weren't actually staying in Washington, d C. Because there's
not really any our I mean, there's one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
RV park, it might be an RV park. We didn't
stay there. We stay stay Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, So the one the first day we go into Washington,
d C. Is when I hurt my back.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It was it was bad.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The second day we went into Washington, d C. It
was too hot to go up in the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, they closed it down. Apparently there's no a c
up there, doesn't like not surprising.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I mean when that thing built, i mean, come on,
they couldn't have put eight AC in when they put
that thing in.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I'm pretty sure they did not have a c When
that thing was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Built, they probably had swamp coolers back then.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well yeah, but when you're trying to fit like I
don't know how many people that they try to fit
in that elevator that goes up there every single time,
and you know, no, well swamp cooler is going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean from what I saw in in Spider Man
No Way Home, the elevator you know, is not very sturdy.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Because Hollywood is where you go for all of your information.
If you see it in a movie, it must be true.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well that's so we wanted to go there so I
would have known if it was true or not. Listen,
I go to places because I saw them in movies.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, okay. Last place we didn't go to was the
Space and Something Museum, part of the Smithsonian Museum complex.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The one I wanted to go to the most.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I know, I'm sorry, it was so big. We went
to all Like most of the others, there's like seven
or eight different museums. It's crazy. The Smithsonian is not
just the Smithsonian Museum. It's like the Smithsonians exactly. But
we went to a lot of them. They were really
really cool. What was your favorite one? That we went to.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Jurassic Park was that the Natural History I think there
was a Natural History museum always badass.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Although like the one with the iPod was pretty cool too.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh yeah, that one was pretty cool. It made me
feel really really old though, because they had the iPod
as its own standalone exhibitage and they had a picture
of people using eye pods for the very first time.
It looked like an Apple advertisement or something. The picture
wasn't black and white. Come on, people, we had color
(07:08):
back then. We did not have black and white. They
just did us dirty in that whole exhibit, making it
older than it is.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We were in high school when the iPod came out.
We're not that old.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'm pretty sure we still have an iPod.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That still works, if you still have an iPod.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But the DC area in general is just amazing. We
went to the National Harbor in Maine. No, we went
to the National Harbor in Maryland.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Which National Harbor were you as?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I was at the National Harbor in Maryland, and the
Air Force, the Navy, and I believe it was the
Marines did kind of this rotation every weekend during the
summer where they would put on a free concert for everybody,
and it was really really cool. Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But of course we had to go to Mount Vernon
because why would you go to the Washington in DC,
Virginia Maryland area and not go to Mount Vernon and
walk around the plantation.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was actually really cool. I have to say. George
Washington is certainly most famous for the Revolutionary War and
then of course being our first US president, but the.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Main really really is that what he's famous for.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, didn't you know that? I mean, come on, baby,
I toured DC, we toured Mount Vernon, ut I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Don't know that that that came up. Honestly, I feel
like his work in the French Indian War was far
more important.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, okay, Anyway, he was actually a really really ingenious,
enterprising businessman, and he had a distillery that was still
active and still working. He had obviously a plantation. He
had all kinds of things going on that was really
really cool. And we actually got to go in and
(08:53):
tour his home where he and Martha were, and see
you know, his deathbed where he passed away and.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Really kind of morbid, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We also went and saw Lincoln's instead bed and Ford Theater,
And yeah, it was. That was a morbid tour right there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There's a lot of morebit more morbid mombidity, morbidity, morbidity.
My sixth grade education is not helping.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
No, No, words are hard right now. Yeah, And maybe
some of your apple juice.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That you're drinking, maybe the apple juice will help.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Maybe it will.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
When when I was a kid, my mom always told
me to drink your apple juice cheers.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An apple
juice a day keeps somebody away, somebody away. But we
also did get to go to the tavern where George
Washington had his birthday at and they had a whole
meal that was like his favorite meal. It was.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was very very ta We go there on our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We did, We did go there on our anniversary.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We celebrated our anniversary at Washington's birthday dinner place.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yes, we had Washington's birthd dinner for our anniversary.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It was very flavorful, it was very tasty. We had
a bottle of wine and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Very cozy and intimate and they had like candle light going.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It wasn't real candles, no updated you know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, yeah, fire codes and all. But it was really cool.
And it's in the middle of Arlington, Virginia, which was beautiful.
There's all kinds of really good places to eat over
there as well, and it's right on the river. It
was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And then we went on a bed and breakfast ghost
tour in Gettysburg that was badass.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So we took a little bit of a break from
the camper and we turned off the water for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Always turn off the water when you go to leave
your camphor not, okay, maybe not every single day. There's
some people who do it every single day, and I
get it, and I understand there's a reason for that,
and I know why they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's good advice.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's good advice. But for us, we leave it running
because we're usually here and when we're not here, we're
not gone for very long. Do you turn the water
off when you go to bed at night? No, of
course not. You're in bed for eight hours, so if
you're gone for eight hours, it's about the same thing.
But we turned the water off. I think we might
have even turned the electricity. No, I don't think we
turned the electric yet. No, it just turned the as up,
(11:13):
so they weren't like running all the time exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But we left, we went to a lovely bed and breakfast.
It was the Battlefield bed and Breakfast friendly, yes, dog friendly.
In fact, Dodger was the only pop that entire weekend.
They loved her. All of the guests look Dodger though, exactly,
and all of the all of the bed and breakfast
staff really really loved her. And we found out after
(11:37):
we got back the Bed and Breakfast was actually haunted.
Who knew.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We watched an episode of ghost Hunters and they were
literally at the Bed and Breakfast and.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They saw a ghost in the grounds.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It was on the grounds. Yeah, it wasn't in the place,
and it was actually only like on the thermal imaging camera.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So who knows. If you believe in that stuff, then
that's kind of cool, and if you don't, then you don't.
We never actually had a real experience with a ghost
while we were there, but it sure was cool and
it's a really cool way to learn about history. So
anytime we go to especially a historical place that we're
you know, a city, New Orleans ghost tour is really awesome.
Just go. Whether you believe in it, or not. It's
a really fun way to learn about the history of
(12:17):
that particular location.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, ghost tours are really a fun way to just
experience a city. Like you don't have to believe whatsoever,
it's still fun. I believe tinkerbells flapping her wings right now.
And then Scritton, the Electric City Scretton is the electric
(12:39):
City Scranton.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, we went to the home of the Office and
it was great. We went to the train depot. I
don't remember what it's called.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Train museum of the train museum.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was actually really really cool. It was very awesome.
We got to ride on an actual steam locomotive and
go tour uh steam locomotives, and then find out all
kinds of history about it, which was super awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The reason that we went to Scranton is because we
were trying to meet up. The camera is focusing on her,
and she's like purposely trying to make sure that it
focuses on her, So I'm out of focus. So here
we go. I'm gonna come right in here, okay, guys.
So the reason that we went to Scranton is because
we were looking for somewhere to get together with family
(13:26):
for the fourth of July. That wasn't going to be busy.
Let me tell you, guys, it doesn't matter where you're
at at an RV park. Fourth of July always busy.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
True story. But the place that we stayed at in
Scranton was actually really cool. I don't remember the name
of it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why did you not do this in advance? I know,
hang on King Lake Campground. I'm pretty sure that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
King Lake Campground. So k ee Inn Lake Campground was awesome.
They had a beach, they had boats and kayaks for
for rental.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They had fishing at a a faerry that took you
across the lake. That's been like running for like.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That was a different campground, different campground.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, that was the one Screa. No, it was was
one in Hershey, Oh that was one on Hershey never, guys,
don't they called.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The Ferry Boat Campsites. We'll get to that here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Listen, I remember the name though, you did.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But Kanelink was really really cool. It's actually a really
great place to go, especially for summer camping, and we
had a blast while we were there. But of course
we're we're kind of the office fans, so we had
to go stop at some of the office spots around town.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, we we we ate at one of the bars
that they show in the in the show. We did
not go to the Applebe's because it is shut down.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What else did we do?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
The Houdini Museum That was interesting and then we went
to Maine, Maine during the summer. Is just.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It warms my cockles to think of the fresh lobster
in Maine.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, so we were right outside of Bangor, and in
Bangor there is a place called Eagle's Nest Restaurant. They
boast that they have the best lobster rolls they do,
and they do, Yeah, they do, they Yeah, they totally do.
They were about two miles away from our campground and
(15:25):
we went there almost every other day that we were
in town.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So there's, uh, there's a difference. You've got Maine lobster
rolls and you've got Connecticut lobster rolls. Connecticut lobster rolls
are worn with butter. Main loster rolls are cold with mayo.
Both are amazing. They do both, They did both, but
their main lobster roll so good. You got if you're
going to Maine to have lobster. You need to have
(15:50):
a Maine lobster roll.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes. And then one of the main things that we
really wanted to do while we were in Maine, I know,
you see what I see what I did there is
eat an actual lobster dinner. And we had an amazing
lobster dinner at the Traveling Lopso in bur Herber.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Bahaba, Traveling Lapsta.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Traveling Labstock and Bahaba. Anyway, it was really amazing. It
was really great. The fisherman that runs it, it's kind
of all outdoors. He gets up in the morning, he
goes and fishes for lobster. I think he said he
catches about two hundred a day and then he cooks
them up and sells them. And when they're run out,
they run out. So you got to get there early.
(16:28):
But we did end up. By that point Ryan's back
was in pretty bad shape, wasn't feeling super hot, but
we did manage on one of the days that he
was feeling good to go to Acadia National Park. And
I can say it was worth the trip.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It was worth it. We I mean, unfortunately, like Maine
is on our list of we have to go back
to because we had so much fun, and we feel
like we just kind of like scratched the surface of everything.
Maine has officers a lobster, Yeah, you Hafer, And what
I will say is, oh my gosh, it was so
(17:03):
good everything about it. The lobster was great, the scenery
was great. That that's that state is huge. There's so
much to do. Like I was going to the doctor
at that point, and the doctor's like sitting there during
our visit telling us things that we need to go
do and try while we're there, like they knew we're
in an RV and all that stuff. Like, so I'm
(17:23):
getting there trying to take care of my bag and
they're like, you need to go do this, you need
to go do this, you need to go do this.
I'm like, dude, I can't walk that much.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And of course on our way back, we had to
stop by the Hershey RV shows. So we kind of
did a double stop in Pennsylvania this year and went
to Hershey, which was super awesome. And while we were there,
of course, when in Rome, when in Hershey you go
to the Hershey World Chocolate or World cho World Hershey Chocolate,
that thing. You go to that thing and you make
your own candy bar, and man it was it was
(17:54):
so good. It was so tasty.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And you stay at the Ferryboat campground because then you
can ride a fairy boat.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
See that was the very boat that you were talking
about earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
We got there, adventure.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, we did get there.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It was Pennsylvania. I wasn't wrong about that, that is
very true. We have now been to three different places
in Pennsylvania. We have we Hare, Brenton, Hershey and Philly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes we have.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Tell us what else we're missing? Yeah, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Have we missed a place to go in your state?
Because if we have, now we got to add it
to the list. Bit you gotta tell us in the comments.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
So literally, that was our whole year for twenty twenty four.
And I get it. It's kind of crazy to think
about the fact that we had all this much fun,
all these crazy things, and all on only one coast.
But this is the fun of full time rving, that
even with an injured back, you can do so many
cool things and enjoy yourself and just explore the world exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And I don't even feel like we scratched the surface
of all the places that we could have gone to
on the East coast. There's still so many cool places
to go in the Carolinas, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, so
we definitely have those on the bucket list as well.
But if we missed one and you know a place
along the East coast that we should have gone to
or that we should go to in the future, put
(19:07):
it in the comments below. Okay, capers, we'd love to
stay connected. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
at Wandering our Debabe. Thanks for joining us. Let's do
it again next weekend. Happy camping. Hi. Pre game warm up?
See I need the pregame warm up?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What's what's the thing you're supposed to say, like chili
pepper's on a chili something, But there's a whole thing
you're supposed to like say repeatedly over and over again
to like get your warm up your vocals.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I have no idea what you're talking them out.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Chili peppers on a Come on, you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You don't know what.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Seriously don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure I
feel like you're I feel like you're wud I did.
I did have the look of like I'm totally like
messing with you, and I actually really don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's like chili peppers on a chili log or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
How is it? Why would you say a tongue twister
to get your vocal cords warmed up? That doesn't even
a warm of.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Your vocal cords. It warms up your lips or something.
I don't know what it warms up. Listen, I don't
know what I'm doing. Do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Not a clue?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Okay, that's what I thought.
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