As my winter pilgrimage to the Tampa Bay / St. Pete area winds down, I wonder what did I do here for the past 2 months. There are so many things left on my list.
I see a spot on a local TV station highlighting a local celebrity chef known as Dr. BBQ. He offers some unique items beyond the traditional BBQ fare. I am intrigued by his pork rind nachos and deem that as my days’ initial goto destination. […]
Florida seems to have a never-ending supply of winter festivals and I have attended and written about many. The Manatee Festival, Brooksville Pow Wow, Gasparilla, and others.
When I hear an advertisement for the Kumquat Festival, it piques my interest. Mainly because I ask myself, “What the heck is a kumquat?” When they announce kumquat pie and kumquat ice cream will be available, it becomes a must-see event.
Wilmington, a major financial center for credit card issuers, has a pretty impressive skyline for a city of just over 70,00 people. The Wilmington Riverwalk is built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It is at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine River, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. […]
Sometimes I just get lucky. When heading to a new destination, I do very little research. I just like to let things unfold. I plan to explore Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay area but I don’t realize until I get here that this weekend is the Maryland Seafood Festival. […]
Some of the U-Haul ” Classic” Supergraphics are a bit generic. Such is the case with the Nebraska Cornfield. There is certainly no shortage of cornfields to visit here in Nebraska but that would make for a pretty boring blog. Though Murphy and I have some raucous hide-n-seek games in the fields. He’s good and finds me every time. […]
In 1857, German settlers left Iowa and headed west to Nebraska to start a new settlement on an island known by French traders as La Grande Isle, (later Grand Island) which is formed by the Wood River and Platte Rivers. The city’s claim to fame today is it hosts the Nebraska State Fair in August and is on the migratory route for sandhill cranes in the early spring. […]