Our boss is the greatest! Kathy paid for everyone on staff who wanted to to get trained as a Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA). Mark and I went through the training today at The Clearing in Ellison Bay. But first, a woman from The Clearing gave us a tour of the campus. Continue reading
When I was young, about forty years ago, there was a series of record albums (remember those?) called Environments. The creator of the albums would go to some remote place like the ocean or a lake during a storm and record the sounds. Each side of the album would play about half an hour of whatever the microphone caught and for that glorious amount of time, you could be transported there within the confines of your own home. Continue reading
We only had about a three hour drive east across the state of Michigan today. Our destination was Ypsilanti which is kind of like a suburb of Detroit. We’re here for a one day Bible conference that Our Daily Bread Ministries will be putting on tomorrow. Continue reading
Mark and I didn’t set out until mid-afternoon today, and we stopped first at the quilt shop just up the road from our RV campground. The woman in the shop has lived in both the St Petersburg area of Florida and in Door County, WI, so she was familiar with where we’ve been and where we are going. It’s a small world! Continue reading
This morning we called several service centers to see if they could work on our RV but they all said no. Finally, Mark asked at the office of the park we’re staying in to see if there was anyone they could recommend. They recommended a little shop not far from here so we took the RV to the shop. Continue reading
I want to thank all my new Sun N Fun readers for the warm send-off you gave us. So many of you came by as we were packing up and getting ready to leave. Your heartfelt farewells and “Have a safe trip” wishes were much appreciated. We didn’t get out of Sun N Fun till 2:00 this afternoon. I think that’s the latest we’ve ever started out from a job site, but there were so many of you who said you’ll miss us. It kind of put a lump in my throat! Continue reading
I’ve been off work for the last week, and Mark only has one day left of work. I thought I’d share some recent photos… Continue reading
Today marks our last day of sightseeing on this trip. We took advantage of it to see St Augustine. First we visited the old jail, set up as it was in 1908. Continue reading
There’s an interesting story about how we happen to be in St Augustine, FL tonight. When we arrived in Edisto Island, SC and they were confirming the length of our stay there, it occurred to me that I hadn’t made a reservation to be anywhere on this evening. Somehow in my planning for this trip I had missed this one night. Continue reading
Dad has been saying for years that Hilton Head is one of his favorite places in the country. This morning we headed south to check it out for ourselves. It was nearly a two-hour drive to get there. We had no idea what to look for there, so we tried stopping at the first welcome center we saw, and we found that it was closed and completely empty. Not a good sign! Continue reading