Two Kids and a Map

We just got back from the first road trip of the summer that took us 2400 miles through seven states twice!  This is just road trip number one of 5.  My friends think we are crazy but with a little planning our road trips usually have minimal issues. 
Have you stopped laughing yet?  Minimal issues…yeah right. 
Ok…I [...]

This oil spill is not just destroying a way of life for beach goers and condo owners right now (despite what many people seem to think), but it is affecting the tourism industry, the restaurant industry, the seafood industry, marine life…the list goes on.  I am not going to pretend to know or understand all of [...]

Tags: Pensacola

A few weeks ago we took a walk through the Yellow River Marsh State Park in Milton, Florida, which is home to hundreds of pitcher plants in bloom. Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants. Like the Venus Fly Trap, they “eat” insects. You can read my review of Yellow River Marsh State Park [...]

Tags: Photo Friday

The World is Calling…Can You Hear It?  What a name for a travel site!  I have told my husband several times that I feel like the world is calling me.  I love that The World is Calling has all sorts of travel categories: couple travel, packing, travel with kids, travel prep, traveling with grandparents.  Recently [...]

Tags: Travel Blogger Tuesday

Today I am dreaming about appreciating what I have in front of me in my own hometown.  This post was inspired by a recent post at Dim Sum, Bagels, and Crawfish.  Lucia posted a picture of her holding some of the teeny tiny shells that she found on an Italian beach.  That picture called to [...]

Tags: Florida, Monday Dreaming, Pensacola

Do you ever see a t-shirt on someone while traveling and think that you have got to get a picture of it?!?  I just had to share this picture of an employee t-shirt at one of our favorite seafood restaurants on the beach.  Shirts are available for purchase on Peg Leg Pete’s website!

Stop by DeliciousBaby to [...]

Tags: Photo Friday

 I discovered Carolina Nomad just this week and I am so excited to have found this website.  As you can imagine from the name, the website concentrates on the Carolinas.  Some of our favorite travel memories are from when we traveled through North Carolina.  We will be traveling that way this summer and then I will be [...]

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Now that my kids are old enough to enjoy swimming but are still young enough to fear nothing (well, just about!), I would like to take a long weekend trip to Homosassa Springs to camp and swim with the manatees.  These gigantic sea cows lumber around the river and it is something that I would [...]

Tags: family travel, Monday Dreaming

I wrote this Photo Friday post about the containment booms being put in the ocean in my hometown of Pensacola on April 29. Then I shared with you our experience helping with trash pickup at the beach in preparation for the oil spill on May 2.   I am absolutely disgusted that it is now June [...]

Tags: Florida, Pensacola

One of the things I love about reading different travel blogs is that it can take you to a place that you have never been. 
 
Cascadia Kids is one of those blogs that I love to read because it is about an area that I have not been yet.  Cascadia Kids is a blog that concentrates [...]

Tags: family travel, Travel Blogger Tuesday