Adventures including Visit(s) with Family
Mark Family & Friend Visits It is now warm enough for shorts, on the west coast of Florida. Our short stop started with a visit to Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, where we walked the 1.2 mile boardwalk and saw an alligator, several turtles, and lots of birds. We must Read more
After 2 Months at home We spent our time at home, mostly on the “usual”…friends, family, Mark’s Birthday (Gail made him Baked Alaska!), Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas, New Years, doctors, dentists and getting rid of more stuff. Mark went fishing for steelhead in Canada with his fishing buddy Duane, Gail finally Read more
Three+ weeks, mostly in New Jersey Time for resting up and…Hanging with the Grandkids. In the middle, we left Lizzy in NJ for 6 days, while we took a trip to New England & New York. Two+ weeks on the Jersey Shore We started our NJ stay with a little Read more
Dan, Dave, Donora Who doesn’t like a good alliteration?!? We had 3 days in Mark’s hometown of Donora, visiting his Twin Brothers Dan & Dave…and Joy, Alexis, Patty, Veronica, Darlene, Al. Having such a good time visiting & eating Joy’s Home Cooking, that we totally spaced pictures!!! We did catch Read more
Short visit south of Cleveland Sunday evening we had a lovely dinner with a few of Mark’s Cleveland area cousins (Janice, Ricky, Mary, Patty) at the 1815 Tavern in Aurora. Midday Sunday (before the dinner) and Monday (before the thunderstorm and first real rain we’ve seen in awhile), we took Read more
Two months visiting friends and family …including our kids and grandkids on the Jersey Shore, Gail’s Massachusets family, and the “usual suspects” in Washington. Also busy at home trading in The Beast for The Monster and breaking her in; cleaning up Lizzy; catching a Mariners-Red Sox game at T-Mobile Park; Read more
Leaving Lizzy and The Beast in Minneapolis We just spent 13 days (~1,500 miles in a rental car) in 4 states … Scranton included a Brief Re-Visit to 1 National Park Site: Steamtown National Historic Site (#14-Revisit), where we had an hour to look around again. Could have been 3 Read more
Mostly just hanging out…in camp or at Linda & Steve’s We planned our week in Sarasota to mostly visit with Gail’s good friend Linda and her husband Steve. Unfortunately, they had to go back to Seattle just before we arrived. Instead, we had time to catch up a bit on Read more
Or West Everglades…Big Cypress National Preserve Five nights camping in Big Cypress National Preserve (#231), at Monument Lake Campground. It is only our 5th time camping with Lizzy in a National Park! Despite the website info that there was limited cell service and no showers, we were pleasantly surprised to Read more
First stop, Jersey Shore & Family We left Lizzy outside Philadelphia (Clarksboro, NJ) to “hotel it” on the Jersey Shore, spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Mark’s Kids & Grandkids. We had a lovely family weekend, with included Mark’s 1st & 2nd 70th Bday Parties: dinner on the beach in Read more