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F. O. O. F.
We are Finally Out Of Florida! We never intended to stay four and a half months in any one state, but family obligations reshaped our...
Mar 26, 20181 min read


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,...
Mar 19, 20182 min read


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...
Mar 15, 20183 min read


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...
Mar 8, 20183 min read


Wishing life had a PAUSE button
This past Saturday, my only daughter was married. She is (was) my little girl. My head tells me this is a joyous occasion. But my...
Mar 6, 20181 min read


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...
Feb 28, 20182 min read


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...
Feb 24, 20183 min read


It's a "Keysie" Thing
We spent a total of nine days in the Keys and traveled from Key Largo to Key West. We ate at many wonderful restaurants, kayaked, hiked...
Feb 21, 20181 min read


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...
Feb 21, 20183 min read


“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...
Feb 9, 20182 min read


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...
Jan 29, 20185 min read


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...
Jan 20, 20182 min read


"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...
Jan 19, 20182 min read


Family.. Friends... and Overlap
There is family and there are friends and sometimes you are fortunate enough to have the two overlap... Just before Christmas, we put...
Jan 14, 20182 min read


You NEED a Bodyguard!
I was thinking recently about the film My Bodyguard. It's one of my favorite 80's films. It's a heart-warming story about a sensitive,...
Dec 25, 20173 min read


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...
Dec 23, 20171 min read


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...
Dec 19, 20173 min read


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...
Dec 12, 20172 min read


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...
Dec 5, 20172 min read


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...
Dec 2, 20172 min read
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