The next morning after enjoying coffee on our balcony, we took an app ride-hailing service to see Vizcaya. A National Historic Landmark, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a 1916 waterfront estate home with 32 … Continue Reading Our 2025 Anniversary Trip – Day 2 & Departure
Continued from: Travel 2025 – Spring/Summer Time With the beginning of fall, my travel schedule got particularly busy with three almost back-to-back trips. On the second weekend in October, I … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Fall/Winter
Continued from: Travel 2025 – Early Start While we started out our travel year early in January, it was not until the second week of April three months later that … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Spring/Summer Time
I have written multiple times before that I try to avoid travel in January due to the potential for inclement weather impacting our travel plans. But that changed when we … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Early Start
If you read my post last year about our SibSab (Sibling Sabbatical), you know that just weeks before our scheduled trip to Montreat, the remnants of Hurricane Helene devastated western … Continue Reading SibSab – 2025
A while back, my oldest son suggested that he, his brother and I have an all-boys weekend traveling to a city none of us had been to before. With both … Continue Reading Boys Weekend
Our next stop was the Tennessee State Museum. Many years ago, we had taken our kids to the museum when we travelled to Nashville for a swim meet. But when … Continue Reading ♫ Music City Get Together ♫ – Last Stanza
Last year, we met our daughter and her family in St. Louis for a 3-generation get together. And with her in-laws living close by, we even got to see them … Continue Reading ♫ Music City Get Together ♫ – First Stanza
Over the 4th of July holiday weekend, we took another one of those three generation vacations together with our son and his two children. While my wife and I are … Continue Reading Fourth of July – Gulf Coast
Two years ago, my wife and I flew out to San Francisco with our youngest son and his two children to visit our oldest son and his family. It was … Continue Reading Cousin Get Together
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Fed We took two trips out of the city during our stay. On Friday afternoon, we took a wine tour to the small town … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Abroad
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Culture When one goes to Italy besides all of the things you might want to see or do, certainly tasting the local fare would … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Fed
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Acclimated In the screen shot above you will note the highlighted route takes a few gentle curves. What we did not know until it … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Culture
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting There My wife had booked us into one of the oldest hotel in Florence, the Plaza Hotel Lucchesi which opened its doors for the … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Acclimated
Unless you are a native of this country or have been there, you would not know that Firenze (Fee × rent×say) is what Italians call the capital of the Tuscany … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting There
Continued from: Travel 2024 – Not a Rebound So Far After busy June and July travel months, we did not go anywhere in August until the very end of the … Continue Reading Travel 2024 – No Not a Rebound