Florida

Mar 19, 2018
2 min

Pensacola, Florida... Move along.. Nothing to see here..

We spent the week just outside of Pensacola and I must say I found the city very, very.. unremarkable. Given that it was founded in 1555,...

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Mar 15, 2018
3 min

Winter Garden, Florida.. Charming town; lousy camp ground..

As I've written about in the past, you never know what you're going to find when you select a camp ground. We've had delightful experien...

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Mar 8, 2018
3 min

Escaping from East Berlin 1956

One of most enjoyable aspects of traveling the country is meeting people from different walks of life, different states or even different...

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Feb 28, 2018
2 min

Our first time..

It really was our very first time.. but more on that a bit later. After leaving the Keys, we drove across "Alligator Alley" to Florida...

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Feb 24, 2018
3 min

Sometimes I am overwhelmed with how little I know about RVing..

Whenever we have to back into a campsite, it always seems to attract a crowd. Not because of how stellar our driving skills are or how im...

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Feb 21, 2018
1 min

It's a "Keysie" thing

We spent a total of nine days in the Keys traveling from Key Largo to Key West. We ate at many wonderful restaurants, kayaked, hiked many...

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Feb 21, 2018
3 min

All that's left behind are the stories...

Hurricane Irma not only scarred the landscape it also left an indelible scar on the psyche of many residents of the Keys. The horror/shoc...

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Feb 9, 2018
2 min

“Everything is underwater, I mean everything!”

These words were uttered by Larry Kahn, an editor for the Keynoter, a local Florida Keys newspaper as Hurricane Irma passed overhead earl...

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Jan 29, 2018
5 min

We just stayed at the noisiest place in southern Florida

After leaving a wonderful campground in Mims (Seasons In The Sun), we drove 260 miles south to Boardwalk RV "Resort" in Homestead. We mov...

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Jan 20, 2018
2 min

On the road, again!

After successfully escaping the clutches of the evil "Snow Miser" in the frigid northeast, we arrived back in sunny, warm(er) Florida thi...

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Jan 19, 2018
2 min

"It would take a miracle!"

In the 1980's film, Princess Bride (best movie ever) Max the miracle man and his wife produce an antidote that revived our hero Wesley al...

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Dec 23, 2017
1 min

Christmas RV style

For the past twenty years we have had a Christmas tradition. We would place gifts under the tree and hang stockings by the fireplace. If ...

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Dec 19, 2017
3 min

The Night of Lights -- St. Augustine, Florida

After leaving Jacksonville, we traveled down the coast to North Beach Camp Resort in St. Augustine. We had heard a lot about this charmin...

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Dec 12, 2017
2 min

One of my life's high points

Yesterday, I had the privilege of officiating my niece Jenna's wedding in Jacksonville, Florida. The fact that she and her finance, Karl ...

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Dec 5, 2017
2 min

Death by a thousand mosquitoes!

We have the wedding of my niece this coming Saturday. I have been asked to officiate the wedding. Having never done something like this b...

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Dec 2, 2017
2 min

Friends Along The Way

Our RV is manufactured by a young company named Grand Design. After doing months of research, and listening/reading feedback from other R...

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Nov 29, 2017
1 min

I don't like snakes or gators! (Okefenokee Preserve)

..But we seem to be running into a lot of them critters down south. Today, Lorraine and I decided to hike through the Okefenokee National...

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Nov 21, 2017
1 min

The Nomad Chicks

We have met all sorts of really interesting people at the parks at which we have stayed. People from as far north as Canada and as far we...

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Nov 20, 2017
2 min

Thanksgiving campground style

Kelly's Countryside RV campground, in Callahan, FL, is probably the smallest park we have stayed at to date. There are maybe about 60-65 ...

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Nov 19, 2017
1 min

What's it feel like to haul an RV?

It kinda feels like this.. ..like I'm always taking up two lanes and --given my inexperience-- should be followed by a police escort. (Fo...

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