RV Bucket List

I’m sure we all sometimes struggle with choosing our next RV destination.  With so many choices this question can haunt every RVer from time to time.  So we decided to write down our “Bucket list” of RV destinations.  Kind of like a wish list of places we want to travel to, explore and enjoy in our RV.

As we travel more and meet  new people, I am certain that we will learn of more “must see” places to visit. So this list will always been a fluid work in progress.  We welcome your suggestions to grow our list!

Here is the Soulful RV Family bucket list  – updated Feb 2018

• Fort Wilderness, Walt Disney World – This will be a permanent destination for us. We have been to Disney many times. We have stayed  at Fort Wilderness at least twice a year since we began Rving. We love this campground, and who doesn’t love Disney?
• Great Smoky Mountains – visited NC side, headed to TN side early Aug, but this will be re-visited many times. We have only scratched the surface on things to do and see there.
• Myrtle Beach, SC – Visited April 2017 for NAARVA Southern region rally
• Cape Canaveral – Kenndy Space Center
• New YorkStatue of Liberty– visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
  • Niagara Falls
• Washinton D.C
  • Civil War Defenses of Washington
  • Ford’s Theatre– Visited Sept 2017
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Lincoln – Memorial – visited during Epic 75day summer road trip 2016
  • National Mall & Memorial Parks– visited during Epic 75 daysummer road trip 2016
  • National World War II – visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
  • Pennsylvania Avenue – President’s Park (White House)
  • Thomas Jefferson – Memorial – visited during Epic 75day summer road trip 2016
  • Vietnam Veterans – Memorial- visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
  • Washington Monument– visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
• Alaska
• Canada
• Route 66
• New OrleansNew Orleans Jazz
•  Grand Canyon National Park
• Grand Tetons National park
• Arcadia National Park – visited during Epic 75 daysummer road trip 2016
• Yellowstone National Park
• Crater Lake National Park
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial – visited June 2015
• Mammoth Cave National Park -visited this park when I was 3 years old and want to take my kids to create the experience for them.
• Petrified Forest National Park
• CaliforniaYosemtie National ParkRedwood National ParkAlcatraz IslandGolden Gate
• Crater Lake National Park
• Gettysburg National Military Park
• Zion National Park
• Everglades National Park – visited May 2016
• Biscayne National Park
• The Alamo

Important African American  and Minority sites to visit

• Martin Luther King Jr Memorial – D.C – visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
• African American Civil War Memorial – D.C
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House – D.C
• The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is in Greensboro, North Carolina – visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
• Carter G. Woodson Home – D.C
• Frederick Douglass – Historical site in D.C
• Martin Luther King Jr – Atlanta, Ga –  Been there a few times. It’s always a special place to take first time visitors.
• Trail Of Tears – Remember and commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people, forcefully removed from their homelands in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee to live in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
• Gullah/Geechee  – Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, North Carolina in the north to Jacksonville, Florida in the south. It is home to one of America’s most unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents.
• We Shall Over come  – List of Sites . Full list can be found  by clicking the link
• American Jazz Museum & Negro Leagues Baseball Museum – visited June 2015
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
• Charles Wright Museum of African American History
• Du Sable Museum of African American History
• Muhammad Ali Center
• National Civil Rights Museum
• National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• August Wilson Center for African American Culture
• Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music – visited July 2018
• African Burial Ground Museum & Monument
• African American Museum of Philadelphia – visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
• African American Museum of Dallas
• Museum Of the African Diaspora
• Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum & Maritime Park
• California African American Museum
• Boston Museum of African American History – visited during Epic 75 day summer road trip 2016
• The Museum of the Cherokee –  visited June 2015
• Penn Center – visited May  2015
• Apex Museum in Atlanta – Visited Feb 2018
• National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. – Visited Sept 2017 – check out our blog post here
• Albany Civil Rights Institute – Albany, GA – Visited Feb 2018