Wonder how many travelers zip along Interstate 75 enroute to Orlando or Tampa without knowing about Ocala in northern Florida? On a recent road trip to Florida, our family made a pit stop in northern Florida, overnighting in Ocala, which was somewhere new for us. We arrived around midnight after a full day of driving–a […]

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Sometimes extravagant, special places exist in our own backyard. How is it that they fade from our mind after time (suppressed by the urgent chaos in our daily grind?) and we forget about them until we revisit to entertain an out-of-town guest. Such was the case when my mother spent a couple weeks with us […]

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While on a family vacation this past summer, we stayed in Tofino, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia for a week. I loved checking the tide charts and heading out to different beaches at low tide to look for marine life. My daughter became a whizz at finding all sorts of strange little creatures in no […]

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