Category: Travel

Hurricane season runs from June to November with the most storms in September. Looks like there is action in the Carribean already; certainly not looking for a repeat of last year. I really feel for those in the Carribean Islands as many still haven’t recouped from last years storms....

So this trip to Cuba was put together rather quickly compared to our prior vacations out of the United States.  Of course, this was not a vacation, but a support mission, so it didn’t require as much advance notice.  That doesn’t mean it didn’t require any preparations.  While I...

It is illegal for an American to travel to Cuba as a tourist.  While former President Obama changed the law to allow American’s to travel to Cuba on a limited basis, and President Trump back off some of those advances, it is possible to travel to Cuba in a...

Some of you probably know I recently returned from a trip to Cuba “To Support the Cuban People”. It is well documented that American’s cannot travel to Cuba as tourist and that we must go to support the people of Cuba. In the next few days, I will post...

I’m done with this summer already. It’s been a hot and wet summer so far; can we have a redo of spring?? I don’t think it’s even technically summer yet. I just see hot, hot, hot and hot in my future…. Anything that ‘feels like’ 70+ is way too...

It’s National Corn in the Cob Day! Sure wish I was in Nebraska as there is nothing like husking good Nebraska sweet corn. The corn in Florida is nothing like Nebraska, so today I will have frozen corn instead. It’s not he same for this Husker Grad but in...

…. I was taking pictures of storm clouds and rainbows, tonight it was manatees. On Clearwater Beach this evening just after sunset (couldn’t find a parking spot so we missed the sun setting) we saw a large crowd along with flashing police lights. So of course, we went toward...

We toured most of the beaches in Pinellas County this weekend. We had a couple of graduation parties to attended and since Alberto was hanging around, we decided to tour the local beaches. Dunedin, Clearwater, Tarpon Springs and today we hit most of the west coast beaches that are...

Full rainbow!! Can’t get it all in one picture, but I did see the full rainbow....