To the place of my birth...

hinmo24t · Sep 29, 2021

penumbra said:
I really am hoping I get to the Keys in February. But even if I don't, nobody can take my memories away.

duval st, good times

penumbra · Sep 29, 2021

Damn, did you have to show that? Now I am depressed. (not too much though)
I bought a gorgeous pottery mug on this very street 5 years ago.

HorseloverFat · Sep 29, 2021

I will be at the bamboo forest tomorrow... clipping reeeal close to someone present in this thread.

Going the northern way BACK... slurping up that Americana.

HorseloverFat · Sep 29, 2021

penumbra said:
That is where I camp down there. I have traveled every foot of every path. One day I zigged instead of zagged and covered 18 miles. Watch for signs and it might not happen to you.
Check out camp sites and check cabins. I may have to do the cabin thing some day this winter.

The trails that we walked on (Can’t hike as long with 5 of such varied age

) were WONDERFUL. Bold, exquisite scenery of SUCH a wide array of terrains and habitats. I was honestly DUMBFOUNDED. We ALSO hit the bay for a while, moderate surf, and I had to explain to my sons that THIS water HERE, behaved a little differently here, at this time of day, than the long, straight, combed beaches by the tourist OceanFront. “HERE, boys, if your feet are wet, you’re too close!”

HorseloverFat · Sep 29, 2021

I’m having a real hard time sending/uploading photos... I sm roaming.. and Even with wi-fi.. it’s iffy.. (NICE! it appears to be working) This was today. We started at the bay, actually.

HorseloverFat · Sep 29, 2021

Continued-arooni-dooni! (I can only load 2, dangit)I didn’t even get to the trail pictures!)

Katie0317 · Sep 29, 2021

I agree. Get a pic with you in it! Keep making happy memories, they'll last those kids their entire life.

penumbra · Sep 29, 2021

HorseloverFat said:
The trails that we walked on (Can’t hike as long with 5 of such varied age ) were WONDERFUL. Bold, exquisite scenery of SUCH a wide array of terrains and habitats. I was honestly DUMBFOUNDED

That's what I'm talking about.

vp999 · Sep 29, 2021

Beautiful pics and family !!! Enjoy your vacation man!

HorseloverFat · Sep 30, 2021

I was able to get three pics to load from yesterday.... I have SO many!!

penumbra · Sep 30, 2021

Awesome!!!

TinyArt · Sep 30, 2021

Ya make me SMILE!

Carol 83 · Sep 30, 2021

Great pic of you and the boys.

AlainK · Sep 30, 2021

If they've never seen the ocean before, it must be a great holyday for all of you !

Is the water warm enough to have a swim ? I remember bathing in the North sea, off the coast of Scotland in the seventies. But I was young at that time, and I was with fellow sports students from Germany. I have a very light colour of skin, but when I got out of the water, it was between blue and burgundy.

Very healthy though. Hammams are closed now because of that damn pandemic, but when I occasionaly go there, I love the cold bath after the sweat room. Makes people strong

Those from Finland know that.

AlainK · Sep 30, 2021

PS : and you all look so nice.
But remind your other half and the kids to use sun-lotion, I know how it feels when you forget...

HorseloverFat · Sep 30, 2021

Well... on our first driving day home... I took the wrong 64... and ended up going toward DC... so hit some pretty serious one-way traffic.. then when I finally got going the way I wanted, I had wasted 1.5 hours... THEEEN there was a HUGE accident on I-81 north.. everything was pretty backed-up and “bottlenecked”.. sooo we didn’t even make it out of VA today... bedded down in Strasberg..

HorseloverFat · Sep 30, 2021

TinyArt said:
Ya make me SMILE!

You too, my friend... you too!

HorseloverFat · Sep 30, 2021

Carol 83 said:
Great pic of you and the boys.

Thank you!!! It was hard to get them to stay still in the forest/swamp...

Saw some pretty cool snakes that made me slightly nervous for THEM... i know ‘bout creatures.. and my boys do to.. but they are unfamiliar with venomous snakes.

HorseloverFat · Sep 30, 2021

AlainK said:
If they've never seen the ocean before, it must be a great holyday for all of you !

Is the water warm enough to have a swim ? I remember bathing in the North sea, off the coast of Scotland in the seventies. But I was young at that time, and I was with fellow sports students from Germany. I have a very light colour of skin, but when I got out of the water, it was between blue and burgundy.

Very healthy though. Hammams are closed now because of that damn pandemic, but when I occasionaly go there, I love the cold bath after the sweat room. Makes people strong Those from Finland know that.

It was SOO warm! Much warmer than the Pacific (In oregon/northern CA) in the high-summer, actually.

I am roughly half (depending on your opinion of Spaniards and Serbs) NON-“white”.. so I “end up “burning” for a few hours.. then it just turns into skin tone, it’s weird!