Late November 2021

Just a little OLD history in this town:

“Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation’s first enduring settlement.”

We spent a week here doing touristy things:

Nights of Lights- rode a trolley through town with 3-D glasses on- the Old Town is covered in lights and it is amazing, intense, but amazing.

Climbed the St. Augustine Lighthouse- 219 steps up, and oddly enough 219 steps down….just saying.

Spent a day at the Castillo de San Marcos- awesome old fort with a long, long history. The stone was quarried from a nearby barrier island- it is compacted shells, over thousands of years, called coquina stone.

And found a place to play pickleball and camped right across the road from the beach.

Suwannee River State Park before getting to Port St. Joe for the winter- lots of history in this small park.