Marce's mom, Mashenka, drove us down to Orlando last night to the sounds of Coldplay, Maria Carter, and Steph Taylor. We would have been listening through our old speakers, but Marce's brother, A. J., helped Allen install new speakers in Sirius (our car) on Monday night. Without them, we'd still be in Gainesville packing - thank you two so much! We quietly crept out of our hotel room at La Quinta to let them keep sleeping, and we arrived at Orlando International bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Well, maybe not br [View Full Entry]

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Hello Blog Fans: What a grand slam weekend! Allen and Marce drove down from Gainesville, I flew in from the Bahamas, and Ina got "sick of work" so we could celebrate all weekend long with Mom, Guille and Grandpa! Mom officially retired on December 16th. Mom's retirement gift was a laptop so we fully expect to see her blogging very soon. Speaking of blogs, Allen and Marce are headed for a West Coast Adventure and are blogging as "The Boy and The Girl." Check them out at theboyandthegirl.com or right here on travelblog. I am in Orlando today, well some small [View Full Entry]

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May, 2005.... Got her all cleaned up, now we've got to figure out how to use this thing. Patty told me later that when we first pulled the thing off the lot she was thinking "Oh my God what have we got ourselves into?" But being old sailors, we knew about conserving water and batteries and self sufficiency. Besides, parking this thing is a lot easier than docking a 37'sailboat in a cross wind or currents! Our goal is to see much of the natural beauty this country has to offer, especially the national and state parks and scenic areas. We [View Full Entry]

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It is almost time to go home. I have stared at these pale yellow walls for way too many years now. My time here is limited. Only another 2 months to go. I am working overtime to save as much money as possible to begin my journey. I am heading for the Keys the day after tomorrow. I am looking forward to that. Four days in the Keys with my youngest daughter. She has never been. She is the only true native Floridian in the bunch, and the only one not to have seen the Keys. It's a shame, I tell [View Full Entry]

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With Alberto in the news, it reminded me of last year around the first week of November. We had made plans to go to Marathon on the Keyes. Thinking we were safe from the hurricane season but we were wrong. A week ahead of our departure we received a phone call from the resort. The resort was closed due to damages also no water or electricity yet. Well, what are you going to do? We had travel insurance, we could cancel but no we started to call around the Keyes and no one had space or was not open. We decide [View Full Entry]

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Our cruise ended today, and we immediately made our way back to the airport. We checked in our luggage and figured out that we had hours before our flight. We decided to take a taxi to International Drive in Orlando. It looked like an interesting place to go that wasn't too far from the airport. We didn't really do anything there. We just walked around and looked at the sights. There were a lot of interesting buildings along that street. We saw the Ripley's Believe it or Not! It was more expensive than we wanted to spend, so we decided not [View Full Entry]

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Mike birthday, April email said they had gone to St. Augustine for the weekend. [View Full Entry]

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So I have decided to take advantage of a second trip to Romania to once more work with the Gypsy (Roma) people there. This time we will be taking 34 people. We will be spending 10 days in Northwest Romania (Transylvania)! I will also be taking every opportunity available to update this journal with our adventures in Eastern Europe. Stay tuned for more wonderful stories. We leave in 12 days. Amy :) <>< [View Full Entry]

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I am counting down the days until I leave for Bordeaux! Can't wait! :) [View Full Entry]

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Hello from sunny (and hot) Florida! :-) I didn't have a chance to write the other day due to a big work load so I have lots to catch up on. This is the first time April and I have been to Florida and NOT gone to "at least" Universal Studios and Islands Of Adventure. It's not that we didn't want to, it's that there were SO many other things to see and do. We have been to Florida many, many times and have gone on just about every ride at every theme park. Our plan this time was to try [View Full Entry]

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