The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Here are a few of the random sites we explored during our time in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach area. I liked this statue of King Neptune by Paul DiPasquale on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. …
This post is from several unrelated spots around the Delmarva Peninsula over the last year, including one stop that has been too heartbreaking to look at. The Delmarva Peninsula is that dangle of land dropping …
Assateague Island National Seashore is most famous for being home to a herd of wild horses. I had been once a long time ago, but Doug had never been. Since we were in the area …
We took our van on the 3.5 mile paved Wildlife Drive at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Md. We were not disappointed (other than in the lack of spots to pull over!). There …
Insects are not really our thing. But our Montreal Museum Card included admission to most of the museums in the city (those museum cards get us every time), and we were practically right there when …
The Montreal Biodôme in Canada was originally built for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome (cycling stadium). In 1989 renovations began, and it is now an indoor zoo/aquarium/museum that invites you visit four ecosystems, …
I figured we would skip the Montreal Botanical Garden on this trip because it was December in Canada, but Doug said we should go see the greenhouses, and who am I to argue? It does …
The Wormsloe Historic Site sits on the outer edges of Savannah. It was once the Wormsloe Plantation, the estate of one of Georgia’s founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775). Though the site indicates there are the ruins …
Bonaventure Cemetery is a 160-acre rural cemetery just outside of Savannah in Thunderbolt, Georgia. It is located on the site of the former Bonaventure Plantation. The first plantation home burned to the ground in the …
Doug will probably disagree, but I found the Florida Citrus Tower in Clermont to be completely underwhelming. It was $11 per person to ride up to the top and look out where Citrus trees used …
