I can tell you that Florida is a long drive! We drove from Madison which is East of Tallahassee to Huntsville which is located about 15 miles south of Tennessee all day. Huntsville is called Rocket City, USA because after WW2 the scientists that the US acquired from Germany ended Read more…
After three days of heavy packing and closing up our casita we left to start out on our 2023 travel season. We learned that we needed to “hurricane-proof” our place better than we had due to Hurricane Ian. Therefore packing and closing up took us a lot longer than last Read more…
Once we were able to get the resort back to usable we were able to enjoy ourselves and have fun with other Myakkans. It was my plan this year to document each month in order to keep posts flowing and also not to make writing this post so monumental of Read more…
Our son Keenan’s girlfriend, Sarah invited us to her graduation from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, TX. Katrina and I flew over to spend the weekend with Keenan and Sarah, meet her family, and witness her graduation. What a wonderful time! So glad that we got to Read more…
For Christmas my son Keenan got me a sandwich board that I could write quips on. What a great present! Almost daily I wrote on the board and left it outside by our bar. I thought that I would share some of them with you since it took me some Read more…
Our son Keenan and his girlfriend, Sarah decided to take a quick visit to see Universal Studios in Orlando, FL and asked if we wanted to join them for a day of fun. We, of course, said yes. We drove the truck up to Orlando and stayed in a hotel Read more…
We had invited two couples from Myakka River Motorcoach Resort to accompany us to St. Martin during our regular timeshare week in 2022. Well, at that time, St. Martin was requiring a Covid-19 negative test in order to enter the island. All but one of us tested negative and we Read more…
We took a family vacation to our timeshare at the Flamingo Beach Villas in St. Martin over Thanksgiving. In part the trip was not only to get together but also to celebrate Christmas as Ariana and Matt would be spending this year with Matt’s family. It was exciting to have Read more…
As we turned onto Myakka Avenue we started to see the total damage. The other MRMR residents who arrived to the resort prior to us had cut a path down the avenue so that vehicles would pass. They had to cut about 60 trees that laid across the road. As Read more…
While Hurricane Ian was plummeting our little slice of heaven on the west coast of Florida we were mostly safe and sound on the east coast. My brother-in-law Steve Schroeder, who was checking on his house in Punta Gorda, drove over to stay with us and stay safe. It’s nice Read more…