After KC and I came back from cruising around the Caribbean with our family and taking a side trip to Cancun, we started driving north along Florida’s eastern coast. Over four days, we drove from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, to Savannah, Georgia, taking the scenic route along Florida’s Highway A1A, along the coast line (for Californian’s reference, this is like driving along Highway 1 in California). Along the way, we looked for manatees, checked out the Cape Canaveral National Seashore, spent a day at the Kennedy Space Center (which was awesome to this enginerd), explored the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in St Augustine, and were awed by Georgia’s mossy trees and Savannah’s Forsyth Park.

Below are a few pictures we took along the way. You can see more photos from our trip along the east coast on our Eastern Florida and Georgia Photo Journal Page.

It felt good to be back on the road trip after a two week hiatus in the Caribbean

Campsite next to ours on the Indian River at the Long Point Campground in Florida

Searching for Manatees in the bushes along the islands in the Indian River

This is the beautiful Cape Canaveral National Seashore

KC trying to soak up a little more time at the Cape Canaveral National Seashore beach

Cooking dinner on the beach, our favorite way to make dinner on the road

The entrance to the space center

The Spaceship Atlantis

Welcome to the Castillo de San Marcos!

Views of the moat

A mostly preserved original Spanish coat of arms at the Castillo de San Marcos

Views of St Augustine from the National Monument

Welcome to Georgia!

Our first experience with the mossy trees in Georgia

The fountain in Forsyth Park was beautiful

The Wilkes House had some renown southern food

Downtown Savannah, Georgia

You can check out more pictures from our trip up the east coast on our Eastern Florida and Georgia Photo Journal Page.