Category: Florida
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Parrotheads & Motorcycles
No other musician has influenced my life more than Jimmy Buffett. As such, I’m taking a break from travel blogging to reflect on and share a bit of his influence in my life. My parents and many in the extended family were all parrot heads. Even from an early age, Jimmy Buffett’s music was always…
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Off to Central Florida!
This year I’m headed to Central Florida three times on business: once in August, once in October, and once in November. Everyone at work gave me the, “You’re going there?” My good friend Rob whom I visited in Austin last year moved here a few months ago. It’s always great to see friendly faces when…
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Ride On, Bob
Today was one of the first days I felt really far from home. From California, it’s a chunk of flying to get home. From Australia, it’s literally halfway around the world. It takes 24 hours of continuous flying to get to home from here to see family. I got news today that my uncle had…
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Sandestin
Man time passes quickly. It didn’t seem that long ago that I wrote the article “Dad is 62.” This year was the big 70. My mom and sister had the idea to surprise him this year a few weeks before his birthday. The plan in his mind was to spend a weekend down in Destin…
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Photographing East Pass
On Sunrise I’ve not been back to Destin, Florida in over 20 years. The last time I remember being there was as a high schooler on family vacation with my parents. We were staying out near Sandestin which is about 10 miles east of the downtown. I woke up early Sunday morning to go take…
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Sarasota
Sarasota was on the whole a bit milder than Savannah as we were a bit closer to the water than we were in Savannah. Friday I had lunch with my grandfather (he’s 92) over at Patrick’s in downtown Sarasota. Sarasota has a nice charm to the city. It’s well kept up and has a trendy…
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Onto Florida
Leaving Savannah was hard. Saying goodbye to Lisa was really hard. I was glad to have stayed the extra day so I could spend more time with her. Today’s drive was about six hours most of which was spent traveling across central Florida. One of my favorite vices in the south is Chick-fil-A, a fast…