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It's now a well established tradition for us. Once a year, usually in January, we travel with a group of friends on a Caribbean cruise. We are mostly swing dancers and spend several days together exploring the ship and the various ports as well as finding as many...
Dave and his Bassett hound, Lucy, arrived last night. They drove down from North Canton, Ohio, through some snowy weather to spend the weekend with us. The retaining wall he is sitting on is less than five feet high but the last time he was here was the summer before...
After a celebratory swing dance at the historic Coliseum in downtown St Petersburg last night, we ushered in the new year with a family and friends gathering at Mike and Cathy's home with all the traditional foods. May all of you have a happy, healthy, and fun 2009!...
We celebrated our first Christmas in our new home with Greg & CJ and friend Gary who drove up from Florida for the occasion. CJ cut down a small pine in the nearby woods for our genuine Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. It was a wonderfully quiet family oriented day.
This evening Greg arrived at Tampa Airport from Boston. He and CJ enthusiastically greeted one another at a restaurant in north Tampa where we gathered for dinner. Earlier in the day we had the privilege of meeting Jack Neely who was born while we were traveling out...
Had a wonderful reunion with the gang of silversmiths that frequent The Arts Center. The food was great, the company was better. Followed that with dinner and Warsteiner at the Old Northeast Tavern then Wednesday night dance at PASA - another reunion, this time with...
After a hundred and ten days we drove back into downtown St Petersburg. It felt familiar and strange at the same time. We collected mail at the UPS store and got chocolate - the best we have had in a long time - from Schakolad. Visited Publix to get some groceries...
Thanks to Phil and the family friend, Gary, most of CJ's furniture and boxes had already been moved to a storage unit by the time we arrived on Friday night. But there was still many boxes to pack and to move on Sunday. CJ needed to move out in order for the apartment...
She did it! CJ graduated today in two ceremonies from USF with two degrees, Chemistry and Art History. She graduated with honors in both programs. The day basically was spent at the USF Sun Dome with a short break between the ceremonies. Her friends celebrated that...
After a rather late start we made the trip from our NC house to Tampa in about ten and a half hours. We arrived at CJ's partially vacated apartment and met her beau, Phil. The two met just days after we left for our cross country trip.
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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When we arrived at Timbercrest nearly three weeks ago, we were shown a Killdeer nest in the middle of the gravel in the campsite across from ours, four black and white speckled eggs, and a very frantic parent trying to distract us from the nest with a characteristic...
Today started out as a quiet day in the campground with Amanda in the campsite next door. We shared a breakfast of Eggs and Low-Carb Corned Beef Hash prepared in our Hot Logic Mini Oven and Crispy Pork Belly fried up on her Dash Express Griddle before busying...
Sometimes the stars align just right. This evening we followed the directions given to Wendy, John, and Michael, by Peter Pan, “There it is Wendy. Second star to the right then straight on ‘til morning.” Thus we traveled, guided by a troupe of young dancers, to...