Cruising 2023 – Southern Caribbean – NCL Dawn Normally, I would make a single post for a trip, even one spanning a few days, but this trip was a 12 Day cruise. So, I’ve broken the posts down by days with highlights and insights, tips and tricks. Cruising! I said Read more…
Lux-Glamping… it’s a thing!
Here at this dude ranch, you can stay in a TeePee with living room including a fireplace, AC, kingsize bed with a fireplace, a clawfoot tub and a bidet for your tushy. At night, they come light the campfire for S’mores, and in the morning, breakfast is brought to your icebox… this and all the activities, come out and experience Luxury Glamping.
Traveling with friends and tasting wines, Ashley and Jed wanted to show us some of their favorite places, view the fall foliage and enjoy the camaraderie.
While many people know the terms “Gaming” and “Vegas”, our gaming was a different type. We went for “Dice Tower West”, a convention celebrating on boardgames, dice games, and card games. We traveled with friends, Ashley and Jed. We met them several years ago at a gaming convention in Indianapolis, Read more…
Someone should tell the county commissioners that horses are GREEN. I mean, the ones we rode near the Skyway Bridge did not pollute the waters with petrol and garbage (though there was MUCH trash along the shore) They ate only the floating sea grass… and they were fun to ride. Read more…
Cuba, the Forbidden Island Cuba, off limits to United States Citizens since 1962, it is often called the “Forbidden Island”. A communist country located just south of the US in the Caribbean Sea, most US citizens have not seen it (and many don’t want to visit based on fear and Read more…
Spontaneity…. suspense…. surprise. Are these words that you would use to describe your travel? Neither would we, usually. I mean, we have traveled spontaneously before, and we have left our plans in the hands of fate. We normally plan trips ourselves (or use the services of travel specialists or agents), usually Read more…
We wanted to venture outside the US this year. We did not have a lot of time, but wanted an decent extended weekend and something in the same timezone. And with the goal of going someplace new and getting a stamp in our passports, we decided to go to Toronto Read more…
Early on in our marriage we have attempted to make it down to Miami. We never got there do to a major storm I was battering Miami at the time. Many years later, we moved to Tampa and even after 10 years we still had not gone down to Miami. Read more…
This year we decided to explored the great Smoky mountains. We looked around and found a decent flight into Knoxville, a smaller regional Airport. We thought it would be nice to rent a cabin in the woods, and there are a lot of options in both Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Buyer Read more…