Revised Itinerary as of 4/23

	Barefoot Adventure 2016
Ft. Myers to Ocala	Rainbow Springs State PK	237 miles	May 1-2
Ocala to Marianna	Caverns of FL	249 miles	May 3-4
Marianna to Tupelo		364  miles	5-May
Tupelo to Memphis	T.O. Fuller State PK	110 miles	May 6-9
Memphis to Nashville		213 miles	May 10-13
Nashville to Gaitlinburg	Everett & Irene, Cherry's?	222 miles	May 14-20
Gaitlin burg to Louisville	Churchhill Downs	288 miles	May 21-23
Louisville to Lake Geneva	Coashman's Terrace to the 8th	374 miles	5/28/2016 to 6/8
	2nd Leg of trip
Lake Geneva to Sturgeon Bay		201 miles	June 9-12
Sturgeon Bay to Escanaba, MI	Upper Pennisula	200 miles	June 13-14
Escanaba to St. Ignace, MI	Mackinaw Island	150 miles	June 15-16
St. Ignace to Petosky, MI		50 miles	June 17-18
Petosky to Travers City		65 miles	June 19-20
TraversCity to Ludington		95 miles	21-Jun
Ludington to Saginaw		153 miles	June 22-24
Saginaw - Port Huron to Niagra Falls		295 miles	June 25-28
Niagra Falls to Ft. Ticonderoga, NY	Syracuse half way	351 miles	June 29-30
Ft. Ticonderoga to Franconia, NH	July 4 Parade	225 miles	June 31-July 4
Franconia to Fredricton, NB		368 miles	July 5-6
Fredericton to Moncton		109 miles	July 7-9
Moncton to Botsford		50 miles	Junly 9 to 11
Botsfort to Charlottetown PEI		53 miles	July 11 to 15
Charlottoetown to Sydney	Ferry	219 miles	July 16 to 18
Newfoundland			July 19 to 25
NovaScotia			July 26 to 31
Maine/NH/MA LAST LEG OF TRIP	Bar Harbor and coast		Aug. 1 to 15
	Auburn, ME		Aug. 16 to 23
	David G		Aug. 24 to 29
	MA /Cape / Conneticut		Aug. 30 to Sept. 15
Head home	Wiggle room for rest of trip	return	Sept. 30

Part 1 of the "Adventure": FL to Lake Geneva, WI

First stop will be West of Ocala at Rainbow Springs State Park.  We should arrive on May 1 and leave on the 3rd.

Last stop in Florida will be in Marianna at Florida Caverns State Park. Turns out we have to see the Caverns on Thurs. AM as they are closed the two days we planned to be there!   Timing!!!  Probably wont make it to Tupelo, but somewhere in between and longer day in to Memphis than original plan.  After Carlsbad Caverns in NM we are anxious to see more of these amazing gems.

We have reservations at T.O. Fuller State Park in Memphis May 6 to 10.
Things we've heard that we should see in Memphis:
Blues City Cafe, Graceland, Sun Studios, Gibson Guitar Factory, Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, Riverboat cruise, Stax Museum of American Soul, Beale Street, Having a drink on the roof top of the Peabody Hotel and seeing the ducks, Pink palace Museum, Statue of Elvis, Memphis Botanic Gardens.  Dining: A.Schwab, Brother Junipers for a breakfast, Central BBQ, Muddy's bake shop and Soulfish Cafe.  We'll only be there 4 days (unless we change our minds) so probably wont hit all of these, but once we get there we'll see how much we can cram in.  If you've been there and have a suggestions or a NIX, please let us know.  Same goes for all the lists below.

Nashville will be the next major stop and we have 4 days here as well:
Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole Oprey, RCA Studios, Johnny Cash Museum, Belmont Mansion, Belcourt Theatre, Parthenon in Centennial Park, Tennessee State Capital, Jack Daniels Distillery, Travellers Rest Plantation, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Country Music Hall of Fame, Creekwood Botanical Garden, Belle Mead Plantation, Carnation Museum, Fort Nashborough.

Gatlinburg / Smokey Mountain National Park
We have about a week here.  Aside from the obvious tourist attractions we'll spend a lot of time touring the National Park with a definite trip to see my family in Clarkesville and Gainesville, GA at some point.  Having the car will allow us long day trips or even an over-night trip should we need to.

We have not booked reservations as yet for places to stay as we hate to be locked in to specific dates until we see how the trip goes and if we've allowed enough time.  If you have suggestions of places to stay we'd love to hear them.

The ultimate goal for this portion of the trip is to be in Lake Geneva on the 28th of May.  On the way there we hope to stop in  Louisville, KY to see Churchill downs, but other than that we have no plans once we leave the Smokey's.

Barefoot Cottage getting prepped and new "dinghy"

Barefoot in the driveway at home in Fort Myers, FL

Front to back = Dining room, kitchen, bath to the right and master bedroom

From the "master" to the front.  

Dining and living room

Front door, kitchen and master bedroom

2009 Toyota Corolla is replacing Mini as the "dinghy".  (Take note of the organized garage!!  Too bad Jon Johnson wasn't around to help us out.  NO ONE has a more organized garage than him, but I CAN find ALMOST everything in here.)

We haven't named  her yet, but there must be a clever name to identify our little addition?  Suggestions??

OK, so she's only 27 feet, but she has everything we need to be our "tiny house" for the next 5 months.

Map of the journey

What is not showing is stop 23 which, if all goes according to the current plan, is Newfoundland!  On the return we will spend additional time in Nova Scotia and PEI and almost a month in Maine, NH and MA before deadheading home.

First Draft of Itinerary and schedule

	BAREFOOT ADVENTURE 2016
Ft. Myers to Ocala	Silver Springs State Park	237 miles	May 1-2
Ocala to Marianna	Caverns of FL	249 miles	May 3-4
Marianna to Tupelo		364  miles	5-May
Tupelo to Memphis	Peabody Hotel rooftop	110 miles	May 6-10
Memphis to Nashville		213 miles	May 11-15
Nashville to Gatlinburg		222 miles	May 16-23
Gatlinburg to Louisville	Churchill Downs	288 miles	May 24 to 26
Louisville to Lake Geneva		374 miles	28-May
Lake Geneva to Sturgeon Bay		201 miles	June 12-15
Sturgeon Bay to Marinette		96 miles	16-Jun
Marinette to Charlevoix	Upper Peninsula	253 miles	June 17-20
Charlevoix to Travers City		49 miles	June 21-22
Travers City to Ludington		95 miles	23-Jun
Ludington to Saginaw	Joan and Bill	152 miles	June 24-26
Saginaw to Port Huron		104 miles	27-Jun
Port Huron to Niagra Falls		190 miles	June 28-31
Niagra Falls to Montreal	Kingston is half way	417 Miles	July 1-4
Montreal to Quebec		157 miles	July 5-8
Quebec to Fredericton, NB		368 miles	July 9-11
Fredericton to Moncton		109 miles	July 12-13
Moncton to Botsford		50 miles	14-Jul
Botsfort to Charlottetown PEI		53 miles	July 15-19
Charlottoetown to Sydney	Ferry	219 miles	July 20-23
Newfoundland			July 24-Aug. 4
NovaScotia			Aug. 5-15
Maine/NH/MA	Bar Harbor and coast		Aug. 16 to Sept. 15
	Family and Franconia
	Cape and family
	Wiggle room/rest of trip
Head home			Sept. 30

Barefoot Adventure 2016 Planning Stages

It's getting down blast off time pretty soon.  We should be hitting the road by the end of April.  We have renter's coming in to the house on May 1 so that's a pretty good motivator.  In the past week we've put new tires on Barefoot, changed the oil, etc. she's going to be "detailed" this week.  We bought a 2009 Toyota Corolla to tow behind.  The plan is to find a nice park and set up camp for a few days and then do day trips.  This should make the "touring" part of the journey more fun and certainly a lot less stressful than driving BC through towns and looking for parking spaces.  Starting tomorrow we'll be working on loading her up and getting her all organized.  The plan is to be gone for FIVE months so it entails a little more forethought than before.  This trip, just to Sydney, Nova Scotia will entail about 5800 miles, but at the moment the plan is to go on to Newfoundland as well so that will put a few more miles on the trip.  We met a really nice couple a few weeks ago when we were camping at Highlands Hammock State Park (in Sebring, FL) who told us that as long as we were going to Nova Scotia and PEI and we had the time we should definitely add Newfoundland on the docket.  As they said, "you wont go this way again so you might as well go all the way".  We agree.  Of course, looking in to the cost of the Ferry to get there and back was a bit staggering, but we think it will be worth it.  Of course the next problem is being ABLE to book tickets.  We understand the trip is pretty well booked.  That's the next thing on our agenda....figure out when we can be there and then see if we can get on board.  I purchased a new camera for this trip so be prepared, there WILL BE PICTURES!  I'm excited about documenting the trip with photo's.