Normally we start packing up the day before we leave a site, and lately we’ve gotten so good at it that we pack the morning we leave. But here, after six weeks in the Keys, it’s a different process, so we started three days early. Of course, we’ve received a kazillion Amazon orders that we […]
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Crazy for Rays (and more water photos)
Because we’ve been in the Keys for so long and have everything we own unpacked and strewn around our campsite, we have much to do to prep for leaving in three days. Tracy called yesterday his last day kayaking, but I can’t quit my hunt for rays. Here we were yesterday afternoon kayaking over to […]
Tracy’s Margarita Recipe
If you want the recipe and no explanation, here goes: This post is for Jacqui in New Zealand, whose husband, Mat, is Tracy’s across-the-planet twin. Mat’s making margaritas these days, so Jacqui wants deets on Tracy’s recipe, for our husband-comparison amusement. Here you go, Jacqui! Let me know what ya think. What Happens When You […]
Bahia Honda and Airstreamers
I have a half hour to put this post together in the free time I have before Friday morning’s email goes out. Wait, you heard that right: I don’t have much free time because … [drumroll] … we’re walking over to have happy hour with two Airstream couples in a bit. In real life! People! […]
Getting in the Groove at the Keys Just as We Prep to Leave
We have one last week here of our six-week stay, and I’m realizing how much I’m going to miss this place. Yes, it’s crowded with tourists, and the new highly-contagious variant of the virus is here more than most anywhere in the U.S. So it’s definitely time for us to move on. But look at […]
I Blew out My Flip-Flop, Stepped on an Iguana …
In case this song isn’t stuck in your head yet, the lyrics go, I blew out my flip-flop Stepped on a pop top Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home. You guys remember pop tops, right? The Beautiful Nuisance of Iguanas I apparently don’t need them to mess up my feet. First I […]
Scrap Photos
At the magazine where I worked last, the designer and I would keep folders of images we had permission to use but hadn’t used yet. Here are my scrap photos from this week. Sunrises and Sunsets from the Campground Hiking on Big Pine Key The geology of the lower keys is unique, with a very […]
Misfortune in Dark Holler
What happened a couple of days ago to our neighbors is the RVer’s worst nightmare. They’re (or I should say were) in the big Class A motorhome parked right beside us, and they’re a big family from Michigan: three generations staying in two adjacent RVs for the full winter season, and they’ve done so for […]
Banjo Hangin’ in the Keys
I wanted to call this, “Beach Bum Banjo,” but she hasn’t been able to lie around on the beach here. There are too many dogs on the small beach at the RV park, and so many of them are off leash in and out of the water, Still, Banjo has her daily routine that she […]
A Day of Firsts: Swimming in My Clothes and Walking into a Jam Session
My first first today was something other than these. This morning I was standing where I always stand to get two bars of reception on my phone—near the pickle ball courts (I still don’t know what that is)—talking with my friend Lucy. I was also watching a small group of women learn how to line […]