Art & culture around the world
Funny enough I grew up a stone's throw away from a UNESCO Site: The Everglades. It is the only landscape like this in the whole world. An incredibly unique ecosystem of brackish water (fresh & salt mixing), shallow sawgrass fields, and the largest mangrove system in the Western Hemisphere. Like so many of our world's [...]
Memorial Day Weekend in Florida necessitates cold drinks, water, and sunshine. A few years ago we hit up some West Coast beaches while enjoying Sarasota & the Ringling Museum. This year, we went to Blue Spring State Park, the winter home of Florida manatees, with a few friends. We got to the park by 8 [...]
I'm not a salad person and I so wish I was! Well crafted and filling salads are a work of beauty but no matter how inventive I try to be, they always falls flat. So I am one of those sad people who need a recipe book for salad. Pathetic I know, but this salad [...]
I am so incredibly excited to announce our summer plans!!! Will and I have each been accepted into two prestigious programs this year. Will is going to the University of Florida in Gainesville for a 2-week program on incorporating infectious diseases (a life-long passion of his) in to his AP Biology class. His program [...]
So I subscribe to the Lonely Planet Magazine because I love their travel books and this is another great publication about travel and experiencing global culture. Well in June's edition they have a Mini Guide with a long weekend in Tampa. Funny enough it nearly matches up with our long weekend in Tampa a few [...]
While in Tampa for a long weekend we literally stumbled upon Hyde Park, an adorable upscale shop-lined town center. I had seen pictures of Hyde Park on Pinterest but I wasn't going to carve time out of our short trip to go there until Will decided he wanted to go to the gym before we [...]
I'm not sure where I first heard of the Sunken Gardens (but it was probably on Pinterest, like everything travel-related!). Any who, the gardens are essentially a sink hole in the middle of the urban landscape of St. Petersburg that were turned into a lush botanical garden. It was really great to wander around alone, [...]
