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Welcome! From Maine to Orlando, Florida

Friends and families have asked for regular updates while we are on our road trip from Maine to Florida with many suggestions to start a blog. Why would they suggest starting a blog? 1. Funny, crazy things happen in our marriage 2. We are driving an all electric Tesla car that requires charging every 2 hours or so and 3. The third passenger is a strong minded toddler, soon to be 3 years old in May.

All sounds crazy right? It absolutely is! But! We love spending time together and seeing the world together. We plan to keep our trip simple and keep having fun through the goods and the bads. As many of you know the motto for our Ngo family: Keep It simple! Keep it fun! (We are starting to add "Keep it safe" now that we have added the little one in our life).

We hope our families and friends will enjoy our simple posts and feel free to text recommendations (content to share, format, where to eat, what to avoid, etc.) as we drive our way down from Maine to Orlando Florida.

Start date of road trip: 4/19/2017

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