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The Trip That Started It All: Car Camping to Margaritaville (October 2023)
Before Margaritaville became something more to us… before the return trips, the music, and everything that followed… there was just one visit. At the time, it felt simple. A road trip to visit friends. 🏁 It Started at Indy 500 Weekend In May of 2022, during our annual Indy 500 weekend camp at our home in Speedway, Indiana, our good friends Alan and Carie shared some big news. They had sold their home in Ohio. They were living in their Airstream. And they were building a new home in Latitude Margaritaville in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. At the time, it sounded exciting… but also a little hard to picture.…
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Finding Our Own Margaritaville: A Road Trip Story That Changed Us
There are some trips you take… …and then there are the ones that stay with you long after you’ve unpacked the car. The kind you don’t fully understand while you’re in them. The kind that, over time, quietly become part of who you are. This is one of those stories. It didn’t happen all at once. There wasn’t a single moment where everything changed. Instead, it unfolded slowly—over a few years, a few visits, and a whole lot of time spent with good friends in a place we didn’t quite understand at first. But somewhere along the way… we found our own Margaritaville. It Started with Friends This journey really…
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How Route 66 Brought Us Together
Our story actually began because of the Mother Road. Years before we met, both of us had independently fallen in love with the history, nostalgia, and adventure of Route 66. Through the Route 66 community and a mutual friend, our paths eventually crossed, leading to a first date on the Mother Road in Illinois. That shared passion ultimately brought us together and led to our 2002 honeymoon along the very highway that started it all. Pat’s Route 66 Journey In the early 1990s, Pat was living in Indianapolis, Indiana when he came across an article about Route 66 in the Indianapolis Star. The story sparked his fascination with the…