I grew up on and spent some of the best and happiest times of my childhood on a small rural river in North Florida. I always like to get back to those sort of places if I can, and this road trip is a good chance for that. My partner has also come to enjoy riparian Florida as well as long as the mosquitoes (her nemesis) are in check.

Luckily we found an absolutely beautiful place right on the St. Marks River in North Florida with a screened-in porch and a small dock for launching our kayak. We plan to spend five nights there as a break from our more-eventful jaunt through Georgia to Savannah and back, and we are quite excited about it.

Here is a photo of the place:

We truly will meander on this trip; we intend to follow the warm weather and go where the winds (and the reservations we’ve made) take us, and will leave Florida behind for more northerly points in late March. This cabin on the river is part of that wandering mindset. I look forward to sitting on the porch and reading or just watching the birds flit by, and thinking long slow thoughts.