Now that winter is on its way out, we’ll soon be headed West. But here is a mishmash of memories from the past few weeks in Florida. TROUT LAKE NATURE…

When we first rolled into Florida, Jackson was coincidentally learning about Spanish conquistadors exploring the Americas and first landing in Florida. This included Ponce de Leon and the fabled Fountain…

Manatee season runs from November 15-March 31. It’s the time of year when manatees cluster around the warm springs of Florida, where water is a constant 72 degrees. Watching the…

Soo…we’ve been living like snowbirds for the past month. Florida is pretty crowded in the winter, as one might expect, since the temperatures are a magnet. But where there are…

Third time’s a charm. On our third visit to the Van Fleet Trail, we saw two alligators! The Van Fleet Trail is a rails-to-trails bike path in rural Florida. (More…

Yay! No shoveling! We spent the holidays in Florida where the only shoveling we had to do was in the sand. We visited an indoor light display at Christmas Lane…

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Meow Wolf is an artist company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe is their first permanent installation, but they have locations coming…

Back when the U.S. was still part of Pangea more than 200 million years ago, Arizona was located near the equator where Costa Rica is now, and it was covered…

We took a sunset drive in the Ajo Mountains of Arizona. This 21-mile loop drive is cactus city! We could hardly believe the volume and variety of cactus—there are 28…