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This cache is in memory of my Grandparents who owned and
operated the Travelers Motor Hotel in Walterboro, South Carolina.
My Grandfather, Jack Leonardi, started in Orlando, Fl. as a night
clerk at the “Orange Court”. After managing several hotels on Miami
Beach, they moved to Walterboro and became the owners of several
motels in town. But the Travelers is the one I knew the best
because it became my very first home after I was born and a summer
visiting place for many years. Motels and motor courts became very
popular during the 1940s. People liked the motel idea that they
could park their cars right in front of their rooms and they didn't
have to pay a porter to take their suitcases up to their rooms.
Also, they did not have to pay parking fees to park their cars over
night. In St. Augustine, motels sprang up along US 1, which was, at
the time, the main highway from north to south. Fifty years later,
the prosperity of these family owned motels declined rapidly when I
95 was built, bypassing the once popular "stop over" towns along
Route US # 1. St. Augustine was no exception and most of the motels
melted into history as was the case of this cache site. It is now
the home of the Travelers Travel Bug Depot. It is convenient to
traffic coming and going from St. Augustine for easy drop off and
pick up. While on site take note of the old motel remains and the
huge trees that must have shaded many a tourist. You are looking
for one of my Goodie Tubes and the area can be lightly muggled.
Also be on the look out for any homeless travelers too. Please
watch out for the stickers that guard the cache and take care to
hide it well from prying eyes.
This cache was placed by a member of the
Northeast Florida Geocachers
Association