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Alligator Eyes

Alligator Eyes

We broke camp on Pine Island and headed for Ft Myers. We stopped at a McDonald’s long enough to use their Wi-Fi to replenish our eBook library then went to Mass at Blessed Pope John XXIII Church. Wow! It may be the biggest church we’ve been in. After that we stopped...

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Soggy

Soggy

It started raining in the wee small hours and continued all day and into the night. We didn’t have anything actually planned, no one expecting us. We’d had ideas of places to explore but decided instead to hang out the armchairs in our commodious tent and read. We had...

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Breakfast on the Beach

Breakfast on the Beach

Started the day by breaking camp at Fort DeSoto Park Campground Site 38.  Took a couple of moments to watch shorebirds foraging for their breakfast. Then met Kay and headed to Paradise Grille on Pass-a-Grille Beach. We fell in love with this place when it was Seaside...

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Back in St Petersburg

After a morning meeting with our CFA, we joined Sally for lunch at The Columbia Restaurant at The Pier. It will probably be the last time we dine at that location. It holds a lot of memories for us but plans are for The Pier to go the way of all good things and to be...

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Visiting Ft DeSoto and The Sunshine City

After spending a bit of time just enjoying our campsite, we wandered out to the Old Fort area. We revisited the site of Dave's 1995 Eagle Scout Project, the Mine Storage building that was part of the fort just after the turn of the 20th Century. The foundation markers...

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We Scored!

We Scored!

We rolled into Pinellas County late yesterday afternoon thinking we'd look for a campsite for our little trailer at one of the rv/trailer parks in northeast St Petersburg but then had another thought. We checked the reservations website for Fort DeSoto campground and...

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A Day for Exploring

A Day for Exploring

We ventured into Cherokee today and discovered a gem. The Oconaluftee Institute for the Cultural Arts. We had seen a flyer about an exhibit of work by T.J.Holland and decided to go check it out. We ended up getting an extensive personal tour of the institute which was...

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Three Years Ago

Three years ago today we left Ohio on the last leg of our Great Adventure and drove through a snow storm through West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and into North Carolina. We stopped at the North Carolina welcome...

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Blue Skies!

After gray skies on Sunday, pouring rain all day Monday, snow flurries all day Tuesday, we are excited to see blue skies and sunshine. We started the day with a fire in the wood stove and blankets on the lap.At noon we still have a little bit of snow in a shady spot...

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Marietta

Marietta

Had a wonderful visit with Dick and Dawn. First we did a leisurely circuitous walk from the parking lot to the restaurant where we met Dawn. It was a good chance to talk with Dick and to see a little more of this beautiful little town, the oldest in Ohio. Then a tasty...

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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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The Ides of March

The Ides of March

Actually we're celebrating Allen's birthday rather than the anniversary of perhaps the most famous political assassination in history. We're introducing him and Joyce to our favorite libation station, The Cut, in downtown Sylva before we head on to dinner at Lulu's....

Perusing Old News

Perusing Old News

Among the memorabilia that our parents squirreled away for decades are some old newspapers. Coverage of Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon or coverage when Hurricane Donna hit the Florida Suncoast. What's fascinating are the other stories, like the...

Up Our Road

Up Our Road

An internet article published in August of last year described a plan to bring high speed internet to our neighborhood. Western Carolina University who is our electricity provider has entered into a contract with Morris Broadband to bring high speed internet to the...