Heading east on I-10 put us near enough to Pensacola and the Bare family that we had to stop for a quick visit. Kudos to Chuck and Ginny for their spontaneity in agreeing to park us in their driveway with three hours notice! it was an involved operation to get us in the driveway without […]
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This week we went on a tour of one of Puerto Rico’s bioluminescent bays, La Parguera. A bio bay is a ecosystem in a sheltered bay that lets thousands of Dinoflagellates thrive. When touched, they produce one tiny bit of glowing bioluminescence. When there’s a whole bunch in one place it looks really cool when
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My favorite animal is the capybara, so I decided to do a report on them. Unfortunately I can’t really remember when I heard of them for the first time, however I can remember the first time I was able to see one in real life. We were camping in our RV, and Cici was staying
Our first visitor in Puerto Rico was our Annapolis friend, Paul. We hit the ground running with dawn patrol surf sessions, followed by food and just enough time to digest before the wind was perfect for afternoon wing foiling. I wish he was still here to run around with, but boy, my body is asking
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The snorkeling in Puerto Rico, in our experience, has been great. We’ve seen so many different types of fish! Some of the fish we have seen have been shinny and blue. I’m not sure what the specific name of that certain type of fish is but there were a bunch of them and they were
Surfing is a pretty easy thing to do once you know how to do it. Usually to learn surfing you start out not standing up at all, just laying on the board and working on how to catch waves. Once you get better at that you start working on turning and maybe getting up on
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In an attempt to avoid Saturday crowds at the beach, we headed out on a shoreline hike. Chris played with the 360 camera and made a video so you can travel it with us. Enjoy!
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As Natalie mentioned in her post we recently went on a ski trip to Heavenly Mountain Resort on the border between Nevada and California. The first time we went skiing I was around 7 or 8, and we were living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We went to Hidden Valley Resort because my mom had been there
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In December we went to Austin to visit my Uncle Derek, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Natalie for Christmas. My grandmother and great aunts also flew out here, although they left right after Christmas. We did a bunch of different activities both before and after Christmas and our ski trip, and I’m going to talk about
Last week we went snowboarding and I had a blast!! When we got in from the airport it was so late. I was tired so on the drive home I fell asleep but when I woke up we were at the condo so I opened the car door and walked out. I was amazed there
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