Blogs from Florida, United States, North America

Because we are starting this blog a few months after the purchase of our first motorhome, Norm and I want to catch you up briefly on our past trips. Inaugural trip - Our very first foray in the luxury world of non-tent camping, was after taking delivery of our 32' rolling hotel room we went as far as the back lot of the Dealer to spend the night, trying out all the different systems. Most of the next day was spent getting what we needed to tow the car, then set off to drive about 15 miles to our favorite mountain bike location in Ocala, Fl where they also had a handful of sites. We set up while checking our notes, cooked dinner, played with all the buttons and switches, and met our first of hopefully ... read more

Today we fly to Miami from San Francisco. We are up at 06:30, even though our airport shuttle does not leave until 09:10. We get packed up, I am still blogging - trying to catch -up! We go down to reception and check-out.We have a twenty minute wait for the airport shuttle. Both Di and I have chosen shorts and sandals in which to travel - could be a mistake! The weather has gone a little cooler and our feet are freezing - I think that I have frostbite in some of my toes. The San Francisco weather is a little strange, somtimes it is foggy and really cold, sometimes it is really sunny but windy and can still be a little cool, other times it is really warm - and all of these can be ... read more

On the way to Savannah we stopped at St. Augustine for lunch. St. Augustine is the oldest settlement of the USA. It's a cute little town that is swamped with tourists! Then we moved on to Daytona Beach where we accidently booked a hotel on the main island and not on the beach so it was pretty far from all the excitement. When we first got to Daytona we went straight to the Daytona speedway but it was about to close so we didn't even get to see the track or anything. We went to the beach for dinner to a place called Mai Tai that had cocktails for $4 or pitchers of beer for $6! The place was packed with college kids who all seemed to know each other and be in massive groups so ... read more

We got into Miami by around 4, and as we had made it a day earlier then originally predicted we now had 3 different groups of friends in Miami that night; Margie and Chris (from San Diego and who came to Vegas with us) they were in Miami for one night before their cruise to the Bahamas, Olivia (my friend from The Hughenden Hotel in Sydney) who was flying to New York the next day after spending the semester at the Uni of Miami and then there were Gavin, Murray and Adam who we made friends with a couple of years ago at Jimmy's Beach who I had only met a few times but Laura and the girls still kept in touch with them. We organised to meet all of them out that night, so after ... read more

I woke up at about 10:30 which we never let ourselves do because we never want to miss anything but we were in Miami for four nights so we were a bit more lenient! Laura ended up sleeping until I woke her at 12:42! We went for a very hungover lunch at South Beach and walked around that part of town looking at everything (including the actual beach- which is the nicest US beach I've seen so far, but has no waves!) before heading back to the hostel to chill out and google things for the rest of our trip. That night we went looking for Cuban food (Miami has a high Cuban population) and ran into the boys who were going for steaks, we didn't find any good Cuban Food in that area so we ... read more

Today was my day to sleep in till 12:30! Whoops! Today my hangover was even worse than yesterday but we were determined to go bike riding on the main land so we headed off with me wondering if I'd be able to ride with my head spinning like that. We stopped in to a Cuban restaurant for breki and both ended up with nothing Cuban. When we got to the bike rental shop they unfortunately (thankfully as I was dying) didn't have any of the bikes that we could afford (so poor and only half way through our trip) so we trudged home without doing anything and played on our iPads and took a much needed nap!When I got up I heard some other aussies in the hostel talking about the Miami Heat NBA playoff game ... read more

We got up early and caught a bus straight to the main land with the intent of hiring bikes, but when we got there they didn't have the bikes we could afford AGAIN! Plus it looked like it was about to start pouring so we walked around the bayside area wondering what to do and trying to find info for the hop on hop off buses when we ran into their main terminal. We jumped on one and it took us to all the main areas we wanted to see (except the Miami design district) and we the guides were really informative and it worked out so much better than us trying to find all those spread out places on bikes... In the rain.Plus it took us straight back to near our hostel! We got home ... read more

Welcome to our Travel Blog!! Ok, ok…we were supposed to start this a while ago, but better late the never right?!? I'm sure there are a lot of people I'm missing on my email list, so feel free to share this blog to whomever! In addition to that, I've sent this out to everyone on my email list, which means people I may have emailed or recieved emails from randomly probably got this, so you can ignore if you wish and I apologize for the inconvenience. A brief update of events up to this point: So far, we've spent 2 months in Europe and 3 months in French Polynesia, visiting 4 countries, 17 cities and 6 islands. Below are links to the pictures for those trips if you haven't seen them already. Now that this blog ... read more

We had a wonderful visit with my sister and moved North to Orlando where niece Karen and husband Nick live....right across the street from Thousand Trails Orlando RV resort. This was our first meeting with their four-year old daughter, Julia. What a sweet little girl. Our visit was extended when my brother Rick and wife Pat broke away from their jobs in Atlanta to see us. It's been a long time since we've been together and this was a great visit! We decided to leave Florida via the beaches. Unfortunately the Florida beaches are so popular that last minute reservations don't get you much. We've landed at Flagler beach for a few days. The beach is beautiful. Bulow Plantation and RV Resort is beautiful but run down (an Encore park.) We are headed through Charlotte NC ... read more