Newton Bald-faced Lie
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion and bodies at rest tend to stay at rest. If we have to be honest with ourselves, we binged a few too many streaming series
Congaree(ly)
More than a Swamp Not all National Parks are created equal. There’s the Grand Canyon and then there’s a swamp in the middle of South Carolina. To be fair, the fact that there are 11,000 protected acres in the middle
On the Road Again
Life at home had filled our lives such that waking up in the same place each day felt normal. Family, friends, holidays and special events had kept us wonderfully busy. With a long awaited, mid-February epic Birthday party in the
Coast to Coast COVID
A two month excursion to a handful of National parks morphed into an 8 month cross-country COVID experience. From Congaree to the Great Smokey Mountains, we were shut out of an underground tour in Mammoth Cave then crying with a
Tampa RV Supershow & Tell
26 acres, 1500 RVs, hundreds of product vendors, 12k steps over 8 hours. Welcome to a day at the Tampa RV Supershow. Some go to buy, most go to look, dealers are there to tell and sell. We go to
Find Your Porpoise in the Everglades
After eight nights deep in the Florida Everglades we broke camp for the last time. Dabbing calamine lotion on our Poison Wood rash and brushing tiny ants off our arms and face that had set up a home base somewhere
ForEverglades
It’s a 20 mile commute from LPK to Nine Mile Pond. We needed to be there by 7:45 or our spots would be given up to the waitlist. After an all night fight with intermittent rain and an uncooperative tarp,
Living Large at Long Pine Key
Our National Parks are our National Treasures. We truly believe that. The parks host informational, out-in-nature, hike-bike-kayak, explore programs. Programs are free to the public. Many are run by volunteer rangers who feel more strongly about our national parks than
Surviving Flamingo
The southernmost outpost of Everglades National Park is Flamingo, where marine, marsh, mangrove and coastal prairie ecosystems collide. It’s a place where eyes see wild, ears hear menace and the hardiest explorer’s physical and mental wits are put to test.
Biscayne National Park Drive-by
An All-Water National Park Biscayne National Park is 95% water and 5% Visitor Center. Taking a break from the forEverglades, we detoured about 20 miles to find out what was going on in the Keys above Largo. Top of the