When Georgia gets too cold, what do you do? You leave to the Bahamas to enjoy 77F degree weather!

We found a last minute cruise deal and booked it late in November, packed, and drove 8 hours to Port Canaveral in early December. The plan was to have a day in Nassau and another day on the MSC’s Ocean Cay enjoying the warmer weather and taking a much-needed decompression between busy holiday weeks.

Initial Truck Specs and Setup:

I could have probably afforded a bigger truck had I worked a part time job delivering pizzas with all the research I put into finding a suitable travel trailer and tow vehicle. We started with a very luxurious F150 Limited which had been an excellent truck for all things a suburban family needs a truck to be. It could haul so many groceries! In all actuality it did a great job, we built a deck, garden boxes, and many other projects around the house with that F150.

After a full day of driving back from Indiana, the infamous soap spill of 2025, and not a full nights rest - we dropped the kids off with grandparents and took a very much needed weekend to ourselves. Ziggy(dog) doesn’t enjoy camping as much, he can’t get up the stairs without assistance and the floor in the TravelBarge is smooth and he has to tip toe around. Ellijay can still hop up into the truck so she came with. Shout out to our house/dog sitter for watching Ziggy.