Chincoteague, VA / Assateague, MD - Full Time RV Living
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- Poor planning on our part leaves us with several weeks to fill, so we take our viewer's suggestions (thank you!) and point the van and Airstream to Chincoteague, VA and Assateague, MD. We utilize our Harvest Host membership and take advantage of some free camping in Virginia at the Blue Crab Bay Co. This location allows us to quickly get to Chincoteague where we explore the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and learn all about the island's WILD PONIES!!! From there, we head into Maryland and stay at the Assateague Island National Seashore Campground, where the ponies (not to be outdone by the Chincoteague ponies) are extra helpful in assisting us to set up camp. Pristine beach beckons but our thin Florida blood lets us down once again.
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There are lots of mosquitoes in the summer. We camped at Cherrystone Family Camping Resort almost 10 years ago. I read about it as a child in Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. We had a great time. Got to go crabbing off the pier.
End of July is the best time to visit for Pony Penning Day
If you go to assateague in the summer months the greenflies and mosquitos will eat you alive so in reality you went there at the best time.thats when we go there ...early and late in the season to avoid the bugs....
Well, that's good to know, thank you! There is nothing more annoying than flies, noseeums, mosquitos... take your pick of obnoxious biting flying insect. God forbid you leave the tent unzipped or screen door open and they get inside to bother you all night 🙄Glad we avoided that, even if it was unintentionally! Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
Sounds like you missed the mosquitoes at Chincoteague. They're legendary.
Chincoteague is the best
Hi!
We are headed to NC and the Outter Banks the end of April. Looks like fun! I'm wondering about bugs that time if year. I know you were there in March. Did you hear anything about a "bug season"? We would bring a screen tent if so.
Last time I was in Assateague the horses got real annoying real fast with the constant begging. They were real pushy when trying to cook food outside for every meal. Ferries are all free up and down the outer banks though.
I've heard and read many stories about the opportunistic pony thieves. They were definitely inquisitive and not at all afraid of people, cars, really anything, but they only came around our camp the once when we were setting up. That said, we didn't do any cooking outside so I'm sure that makes a difference. Thanks for the OBX tip, Jack, and thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for picking up all the litter you saw, sad that you had to, but again thanks for caring enough to do it.
Absolutely. Anyone that litters isn't a friend of mine.
did you stay at the National park? if so they do not have hot showers the Maryland state park is more expensive but they do have hot showers, funny they even advertise that they have hot showers and the national park doesn't on their website. I paid $45 or $50 at MD Assateague state park last April and you got lucky the horses ventured into your campsite I didn't see a one in the camping area only at the park entrance.
Yes, we stayed at the Nat'l Park, the State Park was still closed for the season when we were there in March. I was so excited when the ponies came over to help us set up camp... I thought one was going to stick it's head in the trailer! They are not shy lol
Go to Bill s to eat the creamy for ice cream pony tails taffy
The litter might be from the wild horses. Seriously. They raid campsites for food at night, and may have dragged people's stuff away. (Obviously campers are responsible for not having their gear secure.)
Great video guys. Chincoteague is pronounced with an sh sound (as in "she"), instead of a hard ch sound. Not an uncommon mistake. Thanks.
If someone has already put this in the comments section, I apologize for the redundancy.
I am sold on the beach camping. I will check it out next March. The Horses are beautiful. Thanks for rhe awesome video!
It was truly spectacular. The State Park right next store has hookups and hot showers for about the same price, but they didn't open until April 24th this year. So glad you enjoyed the video and we were able to introduce this area to you, thanks for watching and commenting!!
Such a beautiful area. Thank you for sharing! Hopefully make it there one day.
It really was, and honestly, neither of us had heard of it before. Multiple people mentioned Chincoteague and Assateague when they saw we were headed up the East Coast and we're so glad they did, it would have been a shame to miss this beautiful area. We're so glad you enjoyed it and we hope you're able to make it here soon!!
As a Marylander I say Thank You for picking up the trash!! Our beaches can be even more beautiful if everyone did that. Glad you enjoyed your stay.
Absolutely! I wish it weren't necessary, but as long as it is there we will pick it up. Hopefully one day it won't be necessary. Thank you for watching and commenting 👍
I’ve camped Assateague National Seashore at site #7 twice this winter with my new truck camper. In Jan. I was the only person there. Sadly the ponies are dying at an alarming rate. Link to article describing “Swamp Cancer”
www.paulickreport.com/horse-care-category/swamp-cancer-is-killing-chincoteague-ponies/
Congrats on the new truck camper! I can understand why you keep going back, Assateague is AMAZING! I am devastated to learn about the ponies dying from swamp cancer, how horrible 😢 That is the difficulty in managing a wild herd, finding the infection before it's too late is much more difficult when they have 4k acres to roam. I hope we're able to somehow figure out how to either treat it or prevent it all together for these ponies.
I love Assateague island, the state park has hot showers, but we always camp at the national park. Glad you enjoyed your stay.
Just curious, what do you like better about the Nat'l Park over the State Park? The State Park didn't open until April 24th (we were there in March), so we didn't get to check it out. We loved Assateague, total gem 💎Thanks so much for watching and commenting!! 👍
The national park has bigger sites , more space. my husband brings along his sail boat and stays on the bay side doing his thing with our dog, while we beach lizards go to the beach. We always go when its warm so the cool showers don't bother us. I agree Assateague is beautiful in its way. A totally different experience than Ocean City just 10 miles up the Road.
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We loved that tunnel
We actually did too! I just kept going, and going, and going....
I enjoyed your video !! Thanks ! It brought back some fond memories of our own off-season visit there at the Virginia/Maryland seashore, with the ponies, tunnel, and all. In one day we experienced 70 degree sun, pouring rain, then snow, and then sunny and clear. It was a trip. I grew up near Washington, so I look forward to your cherry blossom video too. You two do such a nice job of sharing your detours. I wish you much success and channel growth.
Thank you so much, Rottenbear! Wow, that's some crazy weather... sometimes when things don't go exactly right it just makes it that more memorable!! We really appreciate the kind words and are happy to have you along for the adventure 😉👍
eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia is a beautiful place small cute little towns.
Absolutely, we really enjoyed our time there. We'd love to come back one day in season when the towns are bustling. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍😊
So glad that you stopped at Chincoteague and Assateague. We loved it there when we went this past September. Too many mosquitoes though. The ponies made strolls through the area extra special. Great video.
Us too, so grateful for the suggestion to visit there! That must be another advantage of visiting in March (if you aren't a weenie about the cold, like us lol), if there were any mosquitos they didn't bother us. The ponies made my heart happy 😍
Thank you for being stewards of our lands, I try to do the same here in Colorado!!
Same to you. If enough of us do it maybe we can offset those that think it’s okay to litter. Love Colorado btw, one of our favorites!
Being a former horse farmer, I love the ponies. Oh, and to have them right up to your campsite. Must have been heaven.
It was heaven! It was so hard not to approach them, but they are very strict about not touching the ponies.
If you enjoy paying vast sums of money, for roads/bridges/tunells, keep going north, you'll LOVE it.
😆We drove from Florida up to Maine a few years ago (pre-Airstream and full-time travel) and got to experience that first hand. New Jersey just about bankrupted us lol. Thanks for watching!
Asseateague is my favorite place on the planet. We camp every July for 10-14 days. Until this year it has been in tents. This year we are taking our little guy max.
I should add most years we stay in the state park. For one reason. We take extra people who are not campers. This includes teen age girls. 12 days with pit toilets and cold showers isn’t fun with noncampers. The bathhouses in the state park are really nice. Off season you still super close to OCMD to go out to eat and a ton of the restaurants are open year round including my favorite mexican restaurant in the country called Mothers.
It was amazing, I'm so glad others told us about it and we were able to work it in. We wanted to stay in the State Park but it didn't open until April 24th, hence the Nat'l Park. We missed Ocean City, we'll have to go and check out Mothers next time! Thanks so much for watching and commenting 👍😊
This is the first video of yours that we saw...love it and we subscribed! Nice to see Maryland and Virginia getting some RV love. And thanks for picking up some trash! Assateague is beautiful.
Thank you, thank you for watching, commenting, and subscribing!! We're so happy you found us 😊We had so many people ask us if we were going to visit Chincoteague and Assateague, we figured we'd better find a way to see what all the fuss was about! Totally worth the detour, so glad we got to experience these places 👍
On The flip side, to visiting off season... u don't have to deal with traffic, mobs and crowded stores. For me, I would prep meals, and stop at local grocery stores to stock food. Egg salad tuna salad and pb w/banana sandwiches?. It takes a little extra planning. Another possibility is to call the local tourists bureaus for the areas to find out what the situation is before you get there yeah dampers the Thrill of the unknown yet you won't be surprised by the unknown either. Many beach towns do business Memorial Day to Labor Day in the mid area of United States
Love the wild horses roaming around your Airstream!
It was perfect timing, the ponies were there to help us set up camp!! 😄
Brought back great memories 👍🏻👏🏻. July is the pony swim! It’s gorgeous in season many a summer vacation spent there. Va. And Maryland share the island.
So happy our video allowed you to reminisce. I can imagine the pony swim is a blast, and Chincoteague is a happening place in season. It took us a while to figure out Assateague is a mostly undeveloped island shared by VA & MD, Chincoteague is a developed town on an island just inside of Assateague on the VA side. Sorry if we messed that up in the video, the perils of filming yourself while learning is you're bound to make mistakes! Thanks so much for watching and commenting 👍😊
Park with the ponies next to your camper was excellent.
I was ecstatic when the ponies came to help us set up camp. They were completely unfazed by us being there with our giant shiny trailer, I've heard horror stories of bison in Yellowstone attacking an Airstream because of their reflection... thankfully the ponies were cool 😎🦄
I am camping two sites down from you in Oregon Inlet (the Runaway!) and "discovered" you by the sticker on your van. Have started binge watching! Thanks for picking up the litter. I pick up Plastic everywhere I go on the beach...
Hi, Tom and Susan 👋It was so nice to meet you both, we hope you made it home safely! We appreciate you looking us up and watching our videos!! Safe travels and hope to see you down the road 😊
First, it is always great to see different perspectives of an area we have visited and thoroughly enjoyed. Chincoteague is pronounced as with a Sh not a Ch... So shincoteague. The horses are on Assateague except on the round-up week, then are swum across the channel. The Chinoteague volunteer FD has permits for up to 300 ponies, and return 150 back after the auction. They WANT the herd to increase so to raise money for the auction. Part of the money is their annual fund raiser and part is used to maintain the herd... Emergency food in winter, three vet checks per year, shots, etc. None of that comes from fed money. The lighthouse is awesome and a must see. One of the few double lights in the country. Two fresnal lens lamps created a double blink. Started before civil war and restarted after civil war ended. We would love to try the dry camping up in MD, have only camped on the VA side. The shelling is awesome, too! We saw dolphins in late June.
Figures we had Chincoteague (Shink-uh-teeg) wrong, darn! Well, now we know... thanks!! It's really interesting how the ponies are managed and cared for, and they're obviously great for tourism, they're a huge draw for the area especially during the swim. Someone in the comments here included a link about the ponies suffering from something called swamp cancer, I hope they're able to get that under control. We walked around the lighthouse, it was a beauty but we did not know about the double lights/double blink, very cool!! Thanks for all the info, and for watching and commenting 😊👍
When you return to the OB visit Kill Devil Hill and the Wright Brothers Memorial. We found it fascinating. Thanks for the great vids and music.
Thank you for the suggestion and kind words, Grant! We are definitely interested in checking The Wright Brothers Memorial out ✈️Any other tips for OBX?
This area is on my list. I loved the books when I was little!
Yes! I was horse crazy and read Marguerite Henry also 😍
My family and I saw you guys in the campground at OBX and looked you up when we got home! Enjoying your videos!
That's awesome!! Thanks so much for looking us up and we're happy to have you along for the adventure 😊👍
Found you on my you-tube recommendations. So nice to see someone traveling with 3 pets! This is what I would love to do but my hubby isn’t convinced YET! God bless!
Thank you, Peggy! We actually had 2 cats and 2 dogs when we started a year and a half ago, but unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to one of our kitties earlier this year. Keep working on that hubby of yours 😉
A day trip on the ferry to Smith Island might be interesting.
Thank you for that suggestion, we did not know about Smith Island. Now we do, we'll have to check it out next time we're in the area! 👍
New to your channel Moved from Maryland to Myrtle Beach SC. Can't wait to get our RV back to traveling
Thanks for following along and safe travels.😊
We are seeing some of the sights we remember as home. We can't wait to come back as fulltime RVers! You two actually passed through Virginia Beach where we lived for many years, and where our family is now. Enjoy the cherry blossoms! Christine and Glenn
That's awesome, you'll be there before you know it!! We were actually in VA Beach a week or so ago, it'll be in a future episode. Thanks for watching guys, 2.5 weeks and you'll be out on the road yourselves!!
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2 things... Chinkatink, I think😂 and 24.00 to go through a tunnel?!?! 🤯😲 Man...you probably could have a taken a ferry for cheaper 🙃, probably not😀. Great video as always guys✌️
That was no ordinary tunnel, that was a tunnel on steroids! 23 miles of bridges and tunnels to be exact!! According to Wikipedia, it saves motorists 95 miles which would cost us almost exactly the same in fuel as the toll for the tunnel, so I guess when you look at it that way it's fair 🤷♀️
@@EmbracingDetours touche' 😅
It’s pronounced “Shinkateague”
We did that tunnel couple years back just in the truck though. We were camped at heritage rv park and did a lot of driving around. The tunnel was pretty cool!!!
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel was much more than just a standard tunnel... it is a 23 mile long series of bridges and tunnels. It JUST KEPT GOING, it was really impressive! Once we were through it I understood why they charged us! lol
Great video folks. Welcome to the Northeast. There is not much to do anywhere north on the Carolinas on the coast until after Memorial Day. Especially once you hit New England and Cape Cod. Unless you are a resident, places turn into ghost towns until Memorial Day. July and August are the peak months.
Looking forward to seeing more.
Sometimes we prefer being places a little off-season as they're less crowded, but we recognized there are some downsides to that too! Thanks so much for watching, Ken, we're glad to have you along for the adventure 👍😊
Assateague Island State Park is the bomb! And they have hot showers in the bathhouses.
I wish they had been open, we missed camping there by about a month! Don't get me wrong, the Nat'l Seashore Campground was gorgeous, but at the State Park you get hookups and hot showers for about the same price. Thanks for watching and commenting👍😊
The beach bath houses got washed away years ago.
Bath houses are all rebuilt and very nice and handicapped accessible😊
Another great one guys
Thank you so much, Joseph!
also a lot of millionaire vacation houses celebrities also. Yes it is huge there for the "event: of moving the ponies
We heard the Ponie Swim draws a huge crowd, I'm sure the town of Chincoteague sees a lot of tourism dollars from it. It definitely had a more touristy feel than Assateague, but that's not hard considering the only thing on Assateague are campgrounds!
Nice video 😀😀 to bad about the garbage thanks for picking it up 😀🇨🇦
Absolutely, us good people have to do our part to make up for the bad people that think littering is okay. Thanks for watching, Zack!
You guys are funny and I am reading the comments too. I guess being from the east coast I'm used to all of this. $24.00 probably was for the trailer also, and the tunnel is under the Chesapeake Bay so I would want to pay to have it maintained. haha Wow, that is disappointing always to find trash, thanks for your help along the way. Hopefully, the rest of the east coast is nicer for you. Enjoy yourselves.
We're from FL originally where we do have a few toll roads but we have a Fastpass and probably don't notice the cost as much when it's being automatically withdrawn lol. You are correct, the fee was for towing a 2 axle trailer but going through with a regular car costs $14 to $18 (depending on if peak time or not), so it's pricey regardless. That said, I had no idea what a massive tunnel/bridge system it was and am happy to pay it to maintain it!! That said, we thoroughly enjoyed our time on the East Shore of VA and MD.
I glad you guys do east us videos so many stay in the west us ty for your videos
Thank you, Terri. We were out West last year, and when we came back to FL for the winter we decided to dedicate some time to the East Coast this year. We're interested in exploring places we've never been to before. Thanks for coming along for the adventure!
Hey guys just started watching your channel its great if you ever get up to Lancaster Pa you need to stop at 2 places 1st Shady Maple on wedensday all you can eat prime rib after 4pm for $20 2nd a place called Roots it is a huge farmers market / flea market its only open on tuesdays need to go early parking gets crowded in the mean time safe travels i live in Lenoir NC
Thanks for the tips, Leonard! Unfortunately, PA isn't on our route this year, we hope to do the Northern East Coast and Eastern Canada in 2021 (finances permitting) and will keep your suggestions in mind. Thank you for watching and commenting 👍😊
Looks cold there! Have a good time in Delaware, that’s where I was born!
Haha, I'm not going to lie, it was pretty cold. I kept telling TJ, 'It's in the 50's, that's not that cold!!!' I kept trying to convince myself it wasn't cold but my body disagreed lol.
No doubt that camping in the mid-Atlantic can be dicey in March (and non-existent in the northeast). But spring is finally here so it's time for us New Englanders to start pulling aluminum!
Oh good, I'm sure you're happy to get back on the road! We're happy for you, being a Floridian I can't imagine all that cold and snow for so long. Happy and safe travels!!
I grew up in Virginia and one of my friends parents had a beach house on Chincoteague island. You are definitely right there is not much there, but it is pretty. Have you been to Williamsburg Virginia yet? There is a ton of stuff to do there. That is a seriously awesome place. When you head into Delaware check out Bethany Beach. That is a really nice place and the Cottage Cafe is a awesome place to eat.
You have to love friends with beach houses 😉 We have been to the Jamestown/Williamsburg area previously prior to the Airstream and full-time RVing and really enjoyed it! We only spent one night in Delaware on our way over to DC and it wasn't anything of note so we didn't even film it. We'll keep your DE suggestions in mind for next time we're in the area, thank you!!
we was up in Virginia and went and saw a bunch of presidents homes there it was a great time and also did colonial Williamsburg was nice safe travels take care and it was so nice you cleaned up we do that too so sad it happens
There's so much to see and do all over our country, we are constantly in awe and overwhelmed by it. This area in particular (VA, MD) has a lot of colonial history of the United States which is interesting. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, safe travels to you as well!!
Its a shame your not there in July when they actually move the wild horses across to take care of them medically etc. The Fire dept takes care of this auctioning here too
That would be really cool to see, maybe one day. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Assateague is a cool place to see the pony’s, Not sure what direction you are headed but Annapolis is a nice place to visit, Shenandoah Valley is another, and Harpers Ferry and the battle grounds are other place you can’t miss.
Thank you for the tips, Eric 👍 We passed right by Annapolis without stopping and our route doesn't work for Harpers Ferry, unfortunately, but perhaps we can make it to Shenandoah Valley. There are so many places to see and things to do, we inevitably miss a lot. We've adopted the mindset that it gives us something to come back for! Thanks for watching and commenting 😄
Wow! You JUST went through my area! Woot! Wish I had seen ya. :) Thinking of vacaying up on the peninsula this summer maybe.
It was beautiful, we would like to return one day in season and further explore the Eastern Shore of VA. We were told Cape Charles is really nice but we didn't have time to check it out. Hope you enjoy vacay, wherever you end up!
I love your Brittany!
Thank you, we love her too!! She's a great traveler and just a tad spoiled 😆
I went through the bridge tunnel a few years ago and had sticker shock also over the price. George Washington bridge has them beat at 30.00 though...🤪
Yikes 😳We have driven through NJ before (pre-Airstream) and remember almost going bankrupt in the process, that is a very expensive state to drive in! The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel just took us by surprise, but once we were through all 23 miles of it we kind of understood the cost. Thanks for watching and commenting, Dale!!
A book read by girls at around age 16 "Misty of Chincoteague" is about the ponies. Horse population is controlled by the horse auction. I believe on the VA side it is controlled by birth control. Or vise versa.
Summer time all you can eat crabs is great.
Have fun.
I'm familiar with Marguerite Henry as I was one of the horse crazy girls reading her books. King of the Wind was my favorite of hers and I somehow missed Misty of Chincoteague. We saw you could go clamming or crabbing on the island which would have been fun if it weren't SO cold when we were there. Thank you for watching and commenting!
I love following your travels. How much planning effort is this taking? Are you making reservations, then staying on a schedule in order to find campsites? Are you using a specific guidebook? You visit places I would like to go too.
Next time you really need to take the ferry out to Tangier Island. It is a very old crabbing community that has a very old heritage from northern England. A lot of the soft shell crab we eat on the east comes from there. It is still a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Love your vids keep them coming. I will share a link about Tangier and a video that shows you their very unique accent that comes from the old country. ua-cam.com/video/AIZgw09CG9E/v-deo.html www.tangierisland-va.com/
That table is beautiful! Did that come with the airstream?
Thank you! The dinette table was built by TJ and a friend when we were back in Florida over the winter. The original table was formica and we wanted something different.
Oh I’m so glad you were able to get to Assateague Island! Isn’t it just beautiful there? I’ve never seen trash like that there. It is sad.
Weren’t the ponies amazing?
Was the main bathhouse open? I remember taking hotish showers there.
D. C. Is beautiful this time of year.
Until next time...
Donna
Donna Earley the bathhouses are in the state park not the national seashore. Only pit toliets and cold showers in the national seashore.
I would say the bathhouses in the state park are amazing and even have secret outdoor showers at the end of each bathhouse that are designed so you can have a view of the bay while showering but no one can see you. Even seasoned campers in the state park don’t realize they are there since they are at the back end of the bathhouses.
lizdc1 I didn’t realize that. So the state park was first and then the national seashore? I guess I just always thought they were the same. Sorry. The other showers are only good when it’s 90 degrees!
Donna Earley yep when you drive if you go to the end that is the state park public beach then there is a road into the campground. The state park has about 300 sites all ocean side. The national seashore has sites on bay side and beach side and has maybe 150. On a map they are next to each other. It is why if you go to the national park you drive a bit to get to the camp site since you are really driving past the state park but you can’t see that from the road. The national park is way more rustic and has pit toilets and cold shower stalls. But some of the walk in tent sites are on the dune. The state park has fancy modern bath houses and all the sites are behind the dune.
Hey Donna, lizdc1 knows what she's talking about!! Assateague Island State Park definitely seems like the preferable campground as some sites have electric hookups and there are hot showers. Unfortunately, the State Park doesn't open until 4/24 which is why we ended up at Assateague Island National Seashore Campground. It was a beautiful campground and we had no complaints, but given the option, we would probably stay at the State Park next time for the amenities if no other reason. I was like a kid in a candy shop with those ponies, but I came out of the womb horse crazy so... 🦄🤩
Don't knock the CBBT too much, it is expensive, but it cuts hours off of travel to DelMarVa. I assume you are already rolling toward DC (where I am currently suffering), but it is a shame you can't stay in that area a few days longer as there is a launch scheduled down at Wallops Island tomorrow.
Delmarva... you just introduced a new term to me! Very cool, thanks 😁 Oh once we were through the CBBT we understood, it's no ordinary tunnel! And I see it cuts about 95 miles off the drive, which when I calculate it would have cost us about the same amount in fuel as the toll. Too bad we missed the launch, that would have been cool. Our videos are usually a few weeks behind, so we missed it by quite a bit actually. Thanks so much for watching and commenting 👍😊
Also any tricks for getting your 2 fur babies feet clean before they come in off the beach.
We have an outdoor mat that we'll sometimes put out if our site is particularly sandy, in hopes that it catches the dirt before it makes it inside. If they're really bad, like have gone in the ocean and then rolled around in the sand, I might wash them with the outside shower. But mostly we're just resigned to have a sand-filled trailer lol
I love the Chesapeake Bay tunnel. Is the fee for RVs or trucks, because I don't remember paying a fee. That's an expensive fee, that's for sure.
We actually really enjoyed the tunnel, we had no idea what an engineering marvel it was until we crossed it. It's a beast!! I just looked online and for regular 2 axle/4 tire vehicles it's $14 off-peak / $18 peak, for us towing a 2 axle trailer it was $24.
www.cbbt.com/current-toll-schedule/
It did seem expensive but once I realized it was no ordinary tunnel I somewhat understood the cost. Thanks for watching!!
Ok...odd ? But when& how do you choose a dentist while on the road? That is 1 of many ? I have to consider cause well mine are important to me. Fyi...Both of you have great smiles.
Lol not odd! We returned to our home town in Florida this past winter and were able to see all of our regular doctors, which made this year very easy. Next year we plan to winter out west, so we'll have to figure that out. I guess we'll just see who is a provider for our insurance in that area and then read reviews and hope we pick well! Thanks for the compliment 😁
Imagine having to cross the CBBT twice a day for work. Be careful. Chincoteague ponies bite and kick. And so do many locals on the island.
It's a pretty drive but I can't imagine making it twice daily... especially in inclement weather, I imagine it could get dicey. The ponies and I kept a respectful distance and we got along beautifully, I'm happy to report. The locals on the other hand.... 😉(just kidding)
P.S. sorry about the tolls. It's vicious out here! 😰😠
Haha, no worries! It was a beast of a tunnel, I honestly kind of understood the toll after we got through the 23rd mile of it! 😳
Where are you staying while touring D.C.?
Greenbelt Park Campground near College Park, MD. We actually just released that video today, it was a super convenient location close enough to the metro station that you could either walk, bike or drive.
www.nps.gov/gree/index.htm
I hear ya! Expensive Virginia😪 I’ve heard taxes are a bear, there. Anyway, that campground on the beach looks beautiful! Horses!! Wow!! And good for you picking up garbage. People are such turds sometimes.
It was soooooooo pretty 😍And the ponies just put it over the top, that was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. They seem so inquisitive, although from what I've read and been told, they're just opportunistic little thieves lol.
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While someone drives off their van in the window!!!
As always enjoyed your video. Could almost smell the salt in the air.
Thank you so much! It really was spectacular.
Its a shame the litter humans throw away. We are polluting this planet, animals ingest that plastic and die a painful death and we seem to not just care. Thanks for picking up that trash that most likely would have ended up eaten by an innocent critter.
Preaching to the choir! This is the truth, I completely feel you and agree. Hopefully there are enough caring people out there to counteract the careless ones. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@EmbracingDetours absolutely, you guys put out great content. I enjoy especially Airstreams and hope to purchase one and hit the road soon. Be safe guys.