Our Travel Adventures

1/6/2015 Highlands Hammock State Park Overview Video: Tuesday 1/6/2015 Becky and Greg visited Highland Hammock State Park Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Beautiful small park about 2 hours North East from our home. Camp sites are fairly close together but plenty of trees providing shade. We rode our bikes around the Park and explored the CCC museum . The trials are about 20-30 min. In length, but beautiful swamp, nature, large Cypress trees, and wildlife. No gators spotted this time, but I'm sure they spotted us. After hiking 3 trails, we rode our bikes on the off road bike trails. The scenery was not as nice as the scenery on the walking trails, but good exercise. BICYCLING A paved loop drive through the hammock offers nature study and is ideal for cyclists as bicycles are not permitted on the nature trails. This drive is smooth and suitable for roller-blading, or skating. A six-mile "off roadway" bicycle trail is also available and is best suit

Homestead/Miami Speedway Chump Car Race New Years Eve 2014-15 Proud Dad with Derek Thompson Video Overview: MIAMI – Homestead-Miami Speedway is ringing in the New Year the only way it knows how – by racing cars on track for a 24-hour race. The ChumpCar World Series was held at Homestead-Miami Speedway December 31, 2014, through January 1, 2015. ChumpCar is North America’s home for real, affordable and competitive road racing. ChumpCar was developed for gear-heads; for people who love driving and driving fast. The cars will run in an endurance race lasting 24 hours.  The competition gets underway at 12:01 am on December 31 and concludes at 12:01 am on January 1.  Registration is at 11:00 am – 3:00 pm on Tuesday, December 30. Similar to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, ChumpCar places emphasis on racing. Based on the official rules, participants can only enter a car with a point calculation of 500. If the point calculation of the vehicle is less than 500, additiona