Tag: travel

After two days of checking out Sarasota, we decided we’d spend all of this day in the State Park. We went for an early ride to the canopy walk, which is basically two towers with a suspended wood walkway between them: (here’s Debi on the walkway) The best part about the canopy walk is that…

I forgot to mention one fun thing that happened the previous night. We had just finished setting up camp and it was getting dark when I heard a loud rustling in the brush near our camp. It was loud enough that I though someone was walking through the brush. When it finally stopped, I thought…

We decided we needed a little get away to relax before classes start again (on the 22nd). The problem with taking a vacation when you live on the coast in Florida is that where you live is basically a vacation spot. I know that’s an pathetic quandary, “Oh, poor me, I can’t decide where I…

The next day Debi and I wrapped up the few loose ends we had to take care of while in Utah and packed up for our early flight back to Cincinnati the next day. It was a pretty lazy day. I did, however, make some excellent zucchini bread and zuccanoes (I bought extra zucchini and…

We started up the mountain at 8:00 am. We thought we were the first ones on the mountain, but we found out later that there were at least four people who started before we did. We made pretty good progress during the first stage of the climb, which takes you from the trailhead up to…

Saturday morning we packed up and Debi dropped me off at Mark’s in-laws’ again where I was meeting up with Tom and Mark to go on our annual hike. We hung out waiting for Tom for a little bit then loaded up the car and headed out. We stopped for a quick lunch at a…

Friday was another relatively lazy day. I spent most of the morning helping my mom again with computer stuff then we went to Rooster’s in Ogden for lunch. We spent a little time in the afternoon working on the computer then some of my siblings came up for a game of Texas Hold’Em. Debi watched…

Thursday we did a little more vacationing – we went to the Golden Spike monument at Promontory Point near Brigham City. Rosemary, Jeanne, and I had not been there, neither had some of the other people who went with this (Scott, Shalynn, Gary, and Debi). We didn’t know it when we planned the trip, but…

Wednesday we did go hiking. We got up early and headed to Brighton with Scott and Shalynn to do a 4 ½ mile hike to three lakes. The initial part of the trail is a little steep, but once you get up to the first lake, things level out considerably and the views become very…

Tuesday was another lazy day. We had originally considered going hiking this day as well, but things didn’t work out for that, so we lounged around. We did do one interesting thing. I found a $30 gift certificate to Standard Optical Debi received about 20 years ago for good grades in school. As there wasn’t…