This year for Mackenzie's Spring Break, we decided to do something a bit different and planned a trip to Houston, Texas, and the surrounding areas. I was born in Downtown Houston and lived in many areas north of Houston during my first 14 years of life. After moving...
Have you ever shucked an oyster? It's not as complicated as you might think... Oysters are all the rage here in Florida. In some local restaurants, you'll pay up to $6.00 per shuck. But did you know you might be able to buy them for as little as $0.50 per oyster at...
Last week (March 11 - 17, 2018), we took a family trip to Houston, Texas, and the surrounding areas. Our Spring Break trip included visits with family and old friends, awesome museums, cool hotels, exciting drone flights, and either a light bout of food poisoning or a...
This is the 4th and final installment of our experience during Hurricane Irma. Read parts one (preparing), two (evacuating and three (enduring) here by clicking on each link. All packed up and loaded with enough gasoline to bring us home, our two-car convoy headed out...
This is Part 3 of a four-part Series on our Hurricane Irma story and the many things we learned through the process. If you missed the other parts, you can start at the beginning and read Part 1- Preparing for the Storm or Part 2 - Evacuating Before Irma. As soon as...
This past weekend we finally made it out to the Everglades Seafood Festival. It's an event we'd had on our agenda for the past 4 years but never made it to. The Everglades Seafood Festival originally started in 1970 to raise money for a playground. 48 years later the...
Love is in the air and what better way to spend the day than to show the love of your life a good time around beautiful Naples, Florida? Depending on your likes and tastes, there are a myriad of options for spending a quality Valentine's Day in Naples. Below, I've put...
It's the beginning of a new year, and the perfect time for every travel blogger on the planet to share their travel plans for 2018. This year, although we have some big trips in the works, our calendar is far from full of travel plans. Yes, we did just return from our...
Saturday, January 27th was the Naples Chalk Art on 5th Avenue Sout street festival. This annual event organized by the Naples Rotary Club is free to the public and you can stroll amongst the professional and student artists who lay, crouch, stand on and tower over the...
This is a continuation of Part 1 - 10 Lessons Learned While Preparing for Hurricane Irma As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, we were prepping like we were going to stay in Naples - but with the Hurricane models shifting further to the West every hour and putting...
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