I have finally gotten inspired to start work on Volume 3. It is hard because this was going to be the Volume that followed the raising of Noah :( But he would not want me to stop writing.

Sharon was able to get a flight home earlier than we thought which was great. I think the cold and lack of sleep was getting to her. Plus I cannot take care of myself and needed her home as well.

Sharon and I out on New’s Years Eve having a great time with all our friends. It felt great to get out and celebrate 2008 being part of the past and a new better year starting!It has been a bit since I last blogged. Traveling through the holidays to Ohio and Maryland really was chaotic! [...]

I was born and raised in Loveland Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. I had a very adventurous childhood, and my parents traveled alot with me.
I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design, Pensacola Junior College and finally getting my degree in studio arts at the University of West Florida. I have lived in Kentucky, Hawaii, [...]

 
Over the years of traveling in the Cruisemaster we documented many fun adventures in hundreds of locations and during that time we kept a log of everything we experienced on a website titled DogParksandBrewPubs.com. The reasoning behind the name was simple, every new place we visited we always tried to find either a Dog Park [...]

Here is the article I was asked to write for Gulf Coast Snowbirds.
“In the fall of 2004 my wife Sharon and I lost our residence on Pensacola Beach to Hurricane Ivan. Instead of treating this as a disaster we took it as an opportunity to pursue our dream of living full-time in a motor home [...]

Our destroyed home on Pensacola Beach after Hurricane Ivan came roaring through.
In October 2004 my wife Sharon and I lost our residence on Pensacola Beach to Hurricane Ivan. Instead of treating it as a disaster we made this an opportunity for us to pursue our dream of traveling the U.S. in a motor home. During [...]

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Feeling like we needed a break from real life for a day or so because of all that has happened to us, we planned a quick getaway from Rachie’s place in Port Charlotte to Key West.
Our getaway to Key West got off to a rough start, literally. First getting up at 5:30 to drive to [...]

We decided we wanted a break from Pensacola and got in the van and headed down south to Port Charlotte to visit Sharon’s sis Rachie and my best friend Scooter.
We could not have picked a worse time perhaps. Tropical Storm, soon to become Hurricane Fay, is barreling down on the Port Charlotte area as I [...]