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...

12/1/2014 Everglades National Park Overview Video: Becky and I continued Southeast about 100 miles to Everglades National Park . We enjoyed the scenery as we passed the agriculture land. Lots of vegetables, strawberries, and landscaping plants being grown. Farmers markets are available it seemed like every couple miles. Everglades National Park is a U.S. National Park in Florida that protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades . In the United States, it is the largest tropical wilderness, the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River, and is visited on average by one million people each year. It is the third-largest national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley and Yellowstone. It has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists. Although most U.S. national parks preserve unique...

11/30/2014 Left home at 12:00 p.m. heading south to Key West Florida   for Becky's Birthday.  First stop, Collier Seminole State Park.  Nice small park. Collier-Seminole State Park Highlights Video: Experience the natural beauty and wildlife of the Everglades, Collier-Seminole State Park . The 7,271-acre park lies partly within the great mangrove swamp of southern Florida, one of the largest mangrove swamps in the world. Collier-Seminole also contains one of the three original stands of the rare royal palm in Florida.  The park is the site of a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the last existing Bay City Walking Dredge . Built in 1924, it was used to build the Tamiami Trail Highway (U.S. 41) through the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp, linking Tampa and Miami and opening southwest Florida to travelers. National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the last existing Bay City Walking Dredge . Built in 19...