Kentucky celebrates April with Red Bud Festivals throughout the state. Drifts of the more purple than red trees in flower color the road sides. They seem to clash with forsythia and contrast with the bright white of the dogwoods. It looks like spring; but it is cold and it snowed on Saturday while we were at opening day at Keenland Race Course. We are staying at Kentucky Horse Park Campground. We have camped here before and really like it. The Horse Park itself is like DollyWood for Equines - every breed imaginable, horse shows, equestrian demonstrations, carriage rides, etc. Keenland [View Full Entry]

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The ride from Memphis to Nashville on I-40 is beautiful. Dogwood and redbuds galore! Nashville exceeded our expectations. It’s clean, safe, and user friendly; and also funky and fun. We parked the RV near the Country Music Museum - it is sometimes hard to park something as large as The Schooner in a city. The Country Music Museum is a real treat - beautiful building, awesome collection, and fabulous display techniques. We could enter little circular booths and be surrounded by music from a single recording with information about the artist and the piece on the wall. An extensive Ray [View Full Entry]

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Our Memphis location is at the Tom Sawyer RV Park, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River across from Memphis. Our campsite is literally on the banks of the well-nick named 'Big Muddy." It's both! There is considerable commercial shipping traffic. The Park's promo is right on - we are 10 minutes from Downtown Memphis and Beale Street. Beale St. is like an on-going festival area and is closed to traffic. The atmosphere, music, food, people watching, and plain old fun exceeded expectations. On our first Beale St. night, we sampled three groups - two at clubs (one with [View Full Entry]

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March 30 - April 1 --- We really like this Panhandle "Emerald Coast" Beach area of NorthWest Florida. We are at Navarre Beach Campground, lovin' it! Very casual and fun; the sort of place where 12 year olds fish off the pier with grandpa. Wonderful site with a view of the bay, very soft, white sand, and close to other beaches. There's a community fire pit and the whole atmosphere is more like camping than some of the resort RV communities we've stayed in. Dinner (2X) at Cocodrie's on the deck - great seafood, great beach view. Wes used his [View Full Entry]

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March 27. Landed in Tampa and headed for Ocala. The wild flowers are in bloom and the trees are in leaf. The Schooner did well in storage at New Episode (thoroughred training center)- not even a fly. The horses in the nearby pastures are beautiful. We got groceries and settled in. Had a nice dinner at Horse & Hound with our niece and nephew (Kate .and Mike) who were both there for the Ocala Breeders 2 Year Old Sales. Wes watched BQ1 work out on Thursday morning; he's impressed with her progress. Battle Ready isn't training this week due to [View Full Entry]

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My sister and I traveled via Amtrak to New York City from Albany for two nights (three full days). This was mostly a girlie girl trip, exploring neighborhoods, visiting museums, and shopping (especially funky bargain shopping). Day One Taxi from Penn Station to 57th to leave off the luggage at our lovely and graciously loaned "pied a terre" with a Central Park view. We cabbed to the Neue Galerie, a Louis XIII-style mansion at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street with the wonderful painting of Adlele Bloch Bauer by Gustav Klimt and an exceptional show “Van Gogh and Expressionism.” We w [View Full Entry]

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Noticing that there are few, if any, travel blog entries for our favorite place to come home to - the Capital Region of New York State. The Capital Region is accessible by I-90, Amtrak, and a number of airlines serviced by Albany International Airport. We are about 3 hours from New York City, 4 hours from Montreal, 4 hours from Boston, and 5 hours from Buffalo. I’m posting my impressions of what a visitor can find here where we live. First there is Schenectady, which we love because we see critically acclaimed, professionally produced top notch traveling shows of Broadway plays [View Full Entry]

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We were in the mood for a change from soft, white sand to fresh, powdery snow. The Pico/Killington area of Vermont is a doable day trip from Ballston Lake. We met our daughter, Beth, and her family in the lower lodge at Pico - the part of the lodge which allows picnics . The weather was beautiful - no wind; with snow flurries continuing all day long making condidtions perfect - fresh powder over nicely groomed trails. Pico seems more suitable for family skiing than Killington; especially when little ones are involved. Beth and Chris are using harnesses to keep the [View Full Entry]

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The Springs RV Resort, Silver Springs, Florida, is adequate and the price is right - $20 a night! We got to enjoy their ice cream social and a bluegrass/country music "jam" by some of the other campers on Sunday night while our laundry was drying. Saturday night presented us with lots of entertainment options in the Ocala area including the symphony, a gospel singer, and a play at the civic playhouse, but we were bushed from 15 hours at Disney the previous day. So we settled for a few margaritas and some great Mexican food at Torenos off Route 40. We [View Full Entry]

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I know; I know! I’m the curmudgeon who has been lukewarm on Disney! But now I’m eating crow and it’s so nice to be wrong! We had a few days between wearing flip flops at Cocoa Beach and cowboy boots at Ocala and Orlando was too close to avoid. We had a blast. Despite that we visited the cute mouse’s home during President’s Week - which means that ¼ of all American families with children under 12 were checked in at the same destination, all of our fears about crowd issues just didn’t surface. These “Worlds” are ready and staffed and [View Full Entry]

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