US tour - eastern states 2015

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In 2013 we toured the southern states, 2014 we toured the western states.  Now we will do the entire east coast.  In 2016 we'll do the west coast and northern states.
We left this morning and are currently just south of the NC/SC border (but not at South of the Border) at a rest stop for the night.  The short-term plans are to camp tomorrow night at Lake Louisa just west of Orlando, then 2 nights at Fort Wilderness at Disney (not going into any park, just hanging out), then we pick up my wife on the 7th at the end of a conference she is attending near Disney, and head to the Everglades.
After that we'll wind our way up the coast, spend a night at home, then continue north to Niagara.  I wanted to then do a loop into Canada but I couldn't justify $450 for 4 passports.  We could get the cheaper $30 passport cards, but my luck the Euro will crash next year making a trip overseas dirt cheap and then I'll have to buy the full passports anyway.  No big deal, Canada is only a day's drive away so we can shoot for it in a few more years.

Eventually we'll make it up to Acadia, Maine, and then work our way back down the coast.

Three observations for today.  One, the Virginia State Police were out in force 120%.  No exaggeration there were some stretches of I-95 where they had someone pulled over on the side of the road every 1-2 miles for 15 miles.  Kept slowing down traffic because they were everywhere.  I'm guessing with the terror threat they canceled all leave and told them to pull over anything that didn't smell just right.   

Two, we stopped for dinner a few hours ago and made some soups in the microwave.  Just as we were finishing up my younger daughter spilled what she had left across the table and onto my lap.  Next time I sit uphill from her! 

Three, we were only on the road an hour or two when I was passing someone stopped on the side of the road and suddenly they darted back into my lane and not nearly at full throttle.  Either he didn't see me or, considering the condition of his car, it may have been an insurance ploy hoping I would hit him.  I nearly did.  A good test of my brakes and Prodigy slowing 12,000+ pounds from 65 to 10 just as fast as possible.