Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Our time in Florida is done. We have had more glorious weather in the past month than we ever had any time we lived here. Our last week brought our only spat of gray weather, and our very last day dawned sunny and clear. We celebrated Chris’ completion of Safety School, had lunch at…
Eloise’s adorable dress is a gift from my friend Chrissy, who bought it before we knew Isaac would be a boy. Her own daughter wore it for a homecoming, and another baby girl wore it too. Eloise contemplated the waves at sunset, looking for jellyfish and watching for stingrays. This sweet Woo seems to be…
Tucked away in this secluded corner of Florida, I worked on my latest article between trips to the beach and Aviation Museum. The goal was tangible: after I finished the article, I was allowed to read The Fatal Voyage, a nonfiction account of Captain James Cook’s 1776 quest for the Northwest Passage, where he charted…
The kids and I, we’re proud of this guy. Happy Veterans Day, Chris. Good work saving the ship.
The sun sets around 5pm now. We’ve had the most gorgeous weather the whole time we’ve been here, so we didn’t even mind a few rainy, overcast days this week. I saw a family of dolphins—including some really small ones that kept close together!! Adorable!!—playing in Pensacola Pass Tuesday. And Sunday we saw a…
I hate corn mazes. We always wait until the end, so everyone is hot and tired and it’s nap time, and then we get lost. Other than the corn maze, Sweet Seasons Farm was AWESOME. We had roasted corn on a stick and admired butterflies, jumped on the corn popper, raced around the peddled…
It was 87 degrees today but the beach below the hotel was closed. It’s an active crime scene. A body was found yesterday. The staff at the hotel today had a Halloween party with a pumpkin carving contest. One team carved the Room 130 Ghost. The front desk apparently gets calls from room 130…
