I wonder how the guys (guys with names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Morgan) who founded their exclusive hunting club here in 1886, feel about the rest of us roaming about their once private dominion. They set it up as an exclusive hunting retreat, a members-only island, completely isolated and protected. No way would any of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Spring Trip 2010’
Jekyll Island, GA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged georgia, Jekyll Island, Spring Trip 2010 on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Amelia Island
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amelia Island, Florida, Florida State Parks, Fort Clinch State Park, Kennedy Space Center, Spring Trip 2010 on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The blog is behind again. We had a wonderful visit with Barb and Jerry (Dick’s brother and wife) in their Melbourne home, a retired military community that graciously provides RV hook-ups for visiting guests! And discovered the deliciousness of rock shrimp at “The Lobster Shanty” – we’ll be on the look-out for them from now [...]
Visiting the Holy Land – in Florida
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Holy Land Experience Orlando FL, Spring Trip 2010 on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good Lord. I probably mean that in any way it can be taken. The Holy Land Experience is a biblical theme park in the Orlando area. It’s like a small-scale, fundamentalist Disneyworld. You enter through the Jerusalem gates. I didn’t want to seem too familiar with Jesus, but he was there for picture taking. (You’ll [...]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park, FL
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Florida State Parks, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park, Spring Trip 2010 on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We went to this park because I loved the movie, “The Yearling”, as a child and I love going to the homes of writers. I didn’t know much about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who won a Pulitzer for that book, but I’m pretty excited to be here and learn more about her life. Unfortunately, it turns [...]
Way Down Upon the Suwannee River
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Florida State Parks, Spring Trip 2010, Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We might have been singing “Way down upon the Pee Dee River”, if Stephen Foster (whose namesake park in Florida we’re in) hadn’t had the good sense to search an atlas and switch to Suwannee (which he misspelled Swanee in the song, Old Folks at Home) instead. Foster lived in Pittsburgh almost all his life, [...]
Bad blogger returns
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Monte Sano State Park, Spring Trip 2010 on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hope that post title doesn’t get me any weird, unwanted email… Truth is, if my blog was a baby, it would be taken away from me. I’m erratic and neglectful. I get so excited at the beginning of a trip when it’s all fun and new, then I start feeling a bit obligated and overwhelmed [...]
