It is Florida in December. Where can you go to find your inner eskimo? Someplace cold, with ice, and snow? Gaylord Palms Resort Hotel in Orlando, that’s where. This was our second time here, the first bringing my mother here before Covid. This time we had our friends, Jed, Ashley, Read more…
Christmas time in Tampa is much different that Christmas’s were in Indiana, Chicago, or even South Carolina, the latter of which did not get celebrated too much as Mom and Dad often travelled to us kids and did not decorate much. Here in Tampa, it is easy to get on Read more…
Sometimes you just need to get away and The Epcot Food and Wine Festival is a great road trip for us. This year, we were joined by friends and made it a sort of Pub Crawl, around the world. We enjoyed food and drinks from stands not normally a part Read more…
Birthday Traditions Most everyone has traditions. Some celebrate accomplishments, some are for religious or even political holidays. And then there is the personal ones, like birthdays. This year we were invited to share in our friend’s, Chris, birthday tradition, Jet ski’s. After Chris moved down there from Indiana, he tried 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.
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…
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…
Welcome to Daytona Florida and Daytona Beach. It is home to the Daytona 500, which has it’s history linked to the historic beach you can drive still drive on. We had traveled around and walked on many beaches, but none that would let passenger cars and trucks on it. We Read more…