Joe and I wore the right hats for the Butterfly Rainforest at the Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. The butterflies liked our flower-colored hats enough to land on them. They liked Joe’s lavender colored shirt too. Butterflies weren’t the only thing flying around. There were exotic birds flitting about and providing a background soundtrack. […]
I held it up like an academy award Oscar. See HERE. Joe and I kayaked out to Shell Island in Marco Island, Florida We felt like winners when Joe pulled out this prize from the gulf bay. We had to put it back because it was occupied, but there were plenty of shells that were […]
We’ve been transported. Actually, Joe drove 9 hours straight to get us to our first stop in Florida, Ichetucknee Springs, just north of Gainsville where we camped for a couple of days, kayaked and swam in the natural turquoise spring pools. We were almost up the creek without a paddle. Joe noticed at the last […]
Haunted yard in Swannanoa NC. I told you my shoes were killing me. He just wanted a back rub. You don’t have to take my head off. Advertisement for Zadies Cafe at the Old Marshall Jail in Marshall NC. On our way to a wedding.
1. I couldn’t help thinking of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash singing Girl From the North Country on Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album when I saw the Nashville skyline for the first time. 2. License and registration, please. 3. Here’s Joe working hard at not being a nine-to-fiver. 4. Upon arriving in Nashville, we went to […]
The Loggerhead was across the street from our cottage in Folly Beach, SC. It just happened to be the same place that I and my family stayed at during our Folly Beach vacation in 2015, just across the street from the beach. As the detective Angels, we did see a suspicious body on the beach, […]
After going to some fantastic art exhibits at the Hirshhorn in DC, our vacation started at the ocean in Plymouth MA and ended with the ocean at Bethany Beach DE, where Joe’s mother lives. In between there was Karaoke, a wedding, a Swan Boat Ride and a sentimental journey in my home beach town of […]
I didn’t waste anytime ordering a Mayflower IPA made right here in Plymouth and poured in a Red Sox glass by a Jamacian native named Shireen. Later, it was the first time Joe and I had a Bailey’s Colada that matched the first one we had on the island of St. Croix in 1988. It […]
Making Joe. In the Matrix Clone Room Seeing spots Where am I? Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room at the D.C. Hirshhorn is a psychedelic experience. Doors lead into other worlds at Laurie Anderson’s Weather exhibit also at the Hirshhorn. There are doors and there are golden canoes for this kind of travel. I am in […]
Hiking the AT is not unlike following the Grateful Dead. Dead heads and AT hikers both become like family as far as camaraderie, support and helping each other goes. There are lots of spontaneous and diverse exchanges and making new friends. There are trail angels who offer supplies and feed the hikers hot food where […]
The end of week one on the Appalachian Trail, Joe says: “I’m loving the AT. My soul is happy, my mind and heart are at peace. Meanwhile, the ankles and knees are trying to figure out who hijacked this vessel.” After a week he and his hiking mate took “a zero day” where they do […]
We stayed at the Ocean Coast Hotel, but our second home was the beachside Sliders bar where we met some descendants of the Hatfields, some new Floydfest friends, swung on roped bar seats and danced to reggae music. According to the Wikipedia, “American Indian bands associated with the Timucua people settled on the island around […]
