Shiner, Texas: Where there’llever be a drought.
More photos from Shiner and Columbus, TX >> We visited the Spoetzl Brewery that produces the Shiner Beer lineamed after the town it is headquartered in. Oddly enough the Spoetzel Brewery brews in the German Tradition of beer making because...come to find out this Hill...
Shiner, Texas: Where there’ll never be a drought.
More photos from Shiner and Columbus, TX >> We visited the Spoetzl Brewery that produces the Shiner Beer line named after the town it is headquartered in. Oddly enough the Spoetzel Brewery brews in the German Tradition of beer making because...come to find out this...
Columbus, Texas: Burrrrito!
More photos from Columbus, TX >> Okay, the first day was harsh, around 45º and rainy, we were bone cold! And yes before you say anything, we know we are whimps, we hate the cold, it sucks being cold! Note to selves: Doot attempt to cook crab bisque soup while in...
Beaumont, Texas: Caution, items may shift in flight!
More photos from Beaumont, TX>> I-10 is a mess from Baton Rouge to Beaumont, I thought for sure it was going to shake the Crusiemaster into spare parts. Somehow it made it through “The Gauntlet” in one piece. But inside was a jumbled mess. It gets amuzing when you...
Abita Springs, Louisiana: Small town, Big charm
We made it to this little southern town witho trouble. Our command center in the coach seems to be operating great (Mac MacBook Pro attached to GPS, XM radio, weather station, EVDO internet and surround sound 🙂 We really like this town. A stereo-typical friendly...
Belmont Arts Center
Sharon and I had the opportunity to go to the Belmont Arts Center in Pensacola for a glass blowing/fundraiser event. For $20 you get a hand blown glass, we got two really cool purple ones, and all the beer you can fill it with. We were so happy to see Spaten...
Life Lessons: Do Not smoke and do NOT play with firearms
What I will remember as a very long, yet poignant day, started very early. I was the official photographer for an event titled Breathe Lifeot Tobacco and had to get shooting by 8:00. It was an event that was geared to teach young kids about the...
Treking for Trek
This may be a pipe dream, but Sharon recently got wind of a contest being held by Trek bicycles for a spokesmodel for theirew line of gear designed for women. She has sent in a description of her and our journey. I hope they choose her as it would be an awesome...
One Shoe Diaries Pensacola Exhibition
Since we areotoriously running late for everything we do it seems, we wanted to overcome that stigma. It started out smooth in the morning. But Sharon and I had to get a few things for the show that shouldot take long...or so we thought. The stop at Home Depot took...
We’re Baaackkk!
After a tearful goodbye we got on the road only to hit traffic jam after traffic jam all the way to Gainesville. We heard that once again that morning tornados hit the south and people lost lives 🙁 Our thoughts are with the families and friends that have to live with...
2 weeks until liftoff
With only two weeks left until we take off on the road again, with the wild west as our destination we are getting antsy to leave. The desert is calling us. Well valentine’s day started veryice, we had aice evening hanging with Rachie and Donnie and then went...
Journey 2 Green
Sharon and I on the ride home from Pensacola had an epiphany. It came after speaking with idgroup and the future path of the company and my role in it. Idgroup decided to target companies that are “green” or serious in becoming a “green” company, but before we can...
Addy weekend
Well it is Addy time again, the Advertising Federation Advertising Awards banquet. We headed out early for Pensacola, I was proud of us since we didot sleep well, but we hit the road with vigor. The sky was glowed an eerie orange and it was so hot and humid, you could...
Gypsies like us
Okay we have definitive proof we areot the youngest fulltimers out there. While at our favorite pub, the Celtic Ray, we met Damien and Michelle who areow officially the youngest fulltimers we know of. Brigid’s Cross was playing we were out with Rachie and Donnie...
the One Shoe Diaries™
As most of you know I am collecting photos of the one shoes I find lost in America. I plan on creating a coffee table book with the photos and stories of how I found the shoe along with other stories relating to the shoes, it has been an adventure already. And there...
2007 Begins
Being down here in the land of the retired, one can sometimes come across some interesting driving procedures. One is when the person in front of you forgets to turn off their turn signal. Blink, blink, blink....are they going to turn? Nope they are just driving along...
Holiday Fun in Florida
Tis the Season...to sit around in shorts around the Xmas tree. This was my first time spending Christmas in Florida so it was hard to get into the spirit when it is 85º, but I made it through it 🙂 It was nice, Donny, Rachie, Kevin and Jason spent the...
Back in warm Punta Gorda
Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda Photo Gallery>> Well thanks again to the travel Budha for allowing us to arrive problem free. I spotted five shoes on the way from Orlando. Well Donnie and Rachie’s wedding is over. (see the photos here) It was a great time,...
A National Pageant Thanksgiving…again.
On the trip from Hudson we passed 4 shoes on the road, one being a glittery high heel. Upon pulling up to our site (Thousand Trails, Orlando) they assigned us weixed it pretty quick and played musical sites for a bit until finally settling into a site which later we...
“Carnie” Folk
Well we arrived at the Suncoast RV park in Hudson Florida around 2:30 p.m. witho problems and we are grateful for the good travel Karma. But I may have ruined the good karma when upon checking in I asked to use the restroom, and what do I get when I ask the older...
The Oldest City in America
View St Augustine Photo Gallery>> We arrived to St Augustine without incidence, which is ALWAYS good 🙂 We stayed at Beachcomber RV resort on Velano Beach, aice park because of its location but the roads through the park are rutted and potholed. The place could use...
Southern Charm of Holt, Florida
We wanted to see some friends in Destin so we agreed to make a stopover in Holt, Florida. What we found was a little southern charm hidden just a mile from I-10. The Eagle’s Landing RV Park was aice surprise, level sites, great grass, and very clean wih full hookups....
A hop, skip and a shuffle
After Styx River we shuffled back across the highway to Wilderness RV for a few days, encountering the RVers ritual known as a Rally. It was a Samboree for Mobile Alabama RVers. They looked like they were having a blast visiting each other, and they were extremelyice...
Shuffle Shuffle Shuffle
Well we “shuffled” back over to Styx River RV Resort. It is getting chilly up here, in the 40s lastight, time to get going south soon! Well I am really upset at the media, specifically the Pensacola News Journal. I heard a rumor that a good friend of mine...
The I-10 shuffle
We had to move out of Styx River RV Resort because we stayed our 2 week maximum. And we just headed across Highway 10 to Wilderness RV, another RPI park where we can stay for $8 peright, even had wireless internet, SCORE! The park itself is... well...not aesthetically...