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Back to Margaritaville: How a One-Week Trip Turned Into a Month-Long Stay
Opening After our April 2025 trip to Latitude Margaritaville Hilton Head, something stuck with us. It wasn’t just the sunshine, or the palm trees, or even the laid-back pace that makes you forget what day it is. It was the feeling that we hadn’t quite experienced it all yet. A week was enough to get a taste—but not enough to settle in. The Shift From Visit to Stay Not long after we got home, the idea started to take shape. What if we didn’t just visit Margaritaville again…What if we actually lived there for a while? We already knew the rhythm. The morning walks. The easy evenings. The kind of…
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Adam-12 Memories: One Lunchbox, Two Legends
Some road trip stories take a while to come together. This one took 23 years—and 820 miles in a single day. A 400-Mile Mission It started early—around 6 a.m.—with a road trip to Pittsburgh and the Steel City Con. The goal? Simple: get Kent McCord to sign a childhood Adam-12 lunchbox. But this wasn’t just another autograph stop. This was finishing something that started more than two decades ago. Back to First Grade The lunchbox goes all the way back to 1974. First grade. Heather Hills. Packed with PB&J, a thermos of tomato soup, and whatever made it through the day. And on the front? Adam-12. At the time, it wasn’t nostalgia.…
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Black Tulips & Unexpected Stops in Vevay, Indiana
I’d never heard of Kat Von D until about a year ago. A few people I know mentioned she had bought an old mansion and moved down here to Vevay from Los Angeles, and that alone was enough to make me curious. So I looked her up. Turns out she’s a pretty big deal in the tattoo world—something like 11 million followers big. We made our way into town this afternoon after leaving the campground, and I decided to swing by the place everyone had been talking about—the black tulip gardens she planted right next to her property. This year alone, they put in around 15,000 tulips. It’s one of…
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What’s Not to Love? The Next Chapter in Our Margaritaville Road Trip Story
Prelude Back in November and December 2024, we started talking with Alan & Carie about another visit to Latitude Margaritaville. It didn’t take long before the plans came together—April 20–25, 2025. As always, the destination was part of the excitement… but the journey getting there was just as important. Saturday, April 19, 2025 – Hitting the Road We kicked off the trip the right way—with a stop at one of our favorite local spots, Java Station 31. Coffee in hand, we headed south, picking up I-65 to I-265, then I-64 through Lexington before connecting to I-75. A must-stop along the way was Buc-ee’s in Richmond, Kentucky. It’s hard to pass…