We traveled to Port St Joe from Gainesville and stayed at a very small RV park a block from the beach. The Aqua Bay RV park had full hookups and a little laundry/bathhouse. It was all that we needed and people were super friendly. We […]
Travel Recap: Tampa and Gainseville, FL
Tampa and Gainesville recap: We camped at Fort Desoto State Park outside St Petersburg for several days. We visited the Manatee Viewing Center one day and climbed the observation tower, hiked around the nature trails, and saw the manatees on the coastal trail. We spent […]
Travel Recap: Orlando, FL
hat road trip to Florida would be complete without some time spent in Orlando having fun? We’ve spent over a week outside of Orlando going to the theme parks. We decided to stay a couple extra days where we’re at to chill a bit, get […]
National Park Recap: Big Cypress National Preserve
We set a new trip record! We stayed put for 2 weeks in Key West, just relaxing and appreciating the sun. We also enjoyed visits from Grandma and Santa! We discovered the (free!) MLK Community Pool and had it nearly all to ourselves. We also […]
National Park Recap: Virgin Islands
We arrived late day 1 and got situated in our villa, and got groceries for the week. Day 2 we went to the Visitor Center and got the layout of the island, got some rental life vests for the kids and some rental fins for […]
National Park Recap: Dry Tortugas
Andrew and I left the kids with grandma and went to Dry Tortugas via the Yankee Freedom III ferry. The weather called for storms so we were a bit worried about going, but we have no idea when we’d come back. If we had canceled […]
National Park Recap: Everglades
We entered the park through the Homestead, FL entrance and started at the visitor center (as always). We got our Jr Ranger books and talked to the Ranger about good trails to do along the main road as well as near where we were staying […]
Travel Recap: Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center definitely left an impression. Our family is full of space nerds so we were pretty excited to visit KSC. Our campground was right across the water and we could see the Vehicle Assembly Building! We stopped at the information […]
Travel Recap: St Augustine, FL
St Augustine and Anastasia State Park was our home for 2 nights. Our stay in Anastasia State Park was… not great. We had some pretty crummy campsite neighbors and our site was full of trash when we arrived. You can’t win them all I guess. […]
Travel Recap: Little Talbot Island State Park
Little Talbot Island State Park outside of Jacksonville, FL was amazingly peaceful. There were so few people at the beach we sat and played in the sand for 2 hours and only 2 people walked near us during that entire time. The waves here also […]