The Ark under attack
When I say under attack, unfortunately I have to include myself as one of the attackers. Here is another entry into the misery and triumph section of the diaries. Many who read the last entry regarding transporting N.O.A. (Nora's Other Ark), our free boat given to us...
All’s well that ends well.
I know that many of my frequent readers like the stories of travel where we have something crazy happen to us but we eventually overcome it. If you are one of those people then you are going to love this story. Sharon and I decided it was time to go down south to...
Restaurant: Dean’s South of the Border
To say Dean's South of the Border in Punta Gorda is a mexican restaurant does not do it justice. While it does have great Mexican food, the shrimp fajitas are the bomb, they create all styles of food very well. Their soups are always a treat, and the variety they...
Restaurant: La Thai Uptown
Making my top 3 Thai restaurants, is La Thai Uptown in New Orleans, LA. Great food, superb upscale decor and ambience, and probably the friendliest and most adept staff I have seen at a restaurant, let alone a Thai place. And did I mention very affordable? I of course...
Nora catching the fever!
I was wondering how long it would take before Nora showed interest in finding shoes. Well now I know, Nora located her first Lost Sole at the age of 27 months :) She found it while walking to our local vegan restaurant. She noticed it before I did which I found to be...
Shoe Guy meets World Guy
On my way back from New Orleans I had decided to travel Scenic Highway 90 along the water. It is a gorgeous drive full of interesting sites including a restaurant named "We Never Close" with a "closed for the holidays" sign, a wild boar the size of a volkswagen dead...
New Orleans Gumbo Crawl
Something I like to do when I visit a city, is find out what they are famous for and then try all the local recommendations to find the best one for myself. For instance, in Cincinnati I did Cincinnati-Style chili and in Baltimore I did Marland-Stlye crab cakes. So...
Holiday Travel – Part II
I will start off part II by saying it was thankfully a lot less eventful than part I, but I still feel I need to deliver a part II. The drive to Baltimore up the eastern shore went pretty well. Nora slept the whole way just about. The wind was the only thing that did...
Destination: Brevard, North Carolina
This part of the world is known as "Land of the Waterfalls". With a name like that how can you not want to visit and explore? We needed a stop halfway between Baltimore and Pensacola that was not too far off the route and we chose this area as it sounded like a great...
Museum: Port Discovery Museum, Baltimore
This museum is really big. The center piece being a large multi-level playground with rope bridges, ladders and tunnels. It looked like a lot of fun, but there were too many kids on it as this was a holiday when school was still out. Nora gets intimidated by that...