2025 southeast swing – part 1: manatees winter home at Blue Springs State Park
As we started traveling in 2025, our first goal was to visit our family in south Florida, but of course we had a couple of stops before we could get...
2024 spring Florida family trip – part 5: return home to a new floor, spring time, and knee surgery
Our trip home was easy and relaxing. We stayed with our Florida friends again, enjoyed a second stay at a Harvest Host golf course parking lot, had lunch at Sally...
2024 southeast swing – part 1: prep for a trip, familiar stops, and lemonade out of lemons
After multiple medical appointments here and there during the summer, we started to prep for our “annual” fall trip to see our Florida family. Before we could take off, however,...
2024 southeast swing – part 2: Kalmia Gardens was a lovely stop in Hartsville
When we looked at what to do around Hartsville, one of the highlights we read about was Kalmia Gardens, so off we went. Besides seeing this lovely garden area, we...
2024 southeast swing – part 3: growth of cotton in South Carolina up to the Civil War
With a few days to explore this area of South Carolina before our granddaughter’s soccer game, we saw that the local town of Bishopville had a Cotton Museum. Since we...