The ominously dark clouds ahead seemed a fitting end to a very difficult week. With heavy hearts after a week spent with a parent in failing health, our family set out knowing that time surrounded by nature would be good for us, yet feeling guilty for leaving our family members behind to maintain the vigil in the hospital. As we approached Bangor, the heavens opened up and suddenly bolts of lightning followed by loud claps of thunder were upon us making the driving conditions tough. Yet, as we approached Twin Pine Cabins and the River Drivers Restaurant, t
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The Olympics are a time of joy and celebration, a coming together of competition and countries, to compete at the best of their ability, in a sport they love. We spectators get to see this unfold, all in glorious technicolour, like a good soap opera with a bit of national pride thrown in for good measure.
London is this year's host of the Olympic Games, in case you weren't aware...in which case, where you have you been?!
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Have you booked the perfect hotel, only to arrive and discover it’s a dump, in a horrible neighborhood, AND it has bedbugs? Well, that hasn’t happened to me simultaneously but each HAS happened. And each time, I think, there has to be a better way to prevent this and indeed, there is.
Three days in San Diego was insufficient to cover the highpoints. Where to start? The San Diego Zoo was a must see. Balboa park and a museum or two were also near the top of our list. Seeing Old Town, eating out, walking the port – too much for the mere 72 hours between landing and leaving.
Michael's Chicago Style hot dogs are red hot, red delicious.
As an American, Cuba has always seemed like an unreachable destination – or at least extremely inconvenient. Imagine my surprise then, when I discovered a group travel package to Cuba directly from Miami!
NOTE: Now that relations with Cuba have become normalized, travelers can visit Cuba more easily.
Florida Culture for the Week of July 23 by Josh Garrick
Now through August 5 – The 6th Annual Target Family Theatre Festival
The London Olympics are around the corner and some of you reading this may just be in situ to enjoy them. If you are looking for activities other than sport whilst in England and happen to be a wine lover too, then don’t feel you have to hop over the English channel to satisfy your wine travel lust. You can stay right there in England and be in for a treat, even on an easy day trip from London.
“Las Tortugas” that’s what Christopher Columbus first called three islands he spotted in the Caribbean Sea May 10, 1503. He recorded that the islands were “full of tortoises, as was the sea about, inasmuch as they looked like little rocks.” Turtles were so plentiful on the islands, that legend has it sailors avoided them, thinking they were haunted: Apparently, there were so many turtles along the shores and banks of the islands that from a distance the land appeared to be moving.