Marriott Tag

Relaxing on Marco Island

After our jam-packed week on Key West we headed west on Alligator Alley to Marco Island.  Here we checked in to the Crystal Shores Marriott which we planned to use as our base for relaxation.  Our plans for the entire week were to walk the...

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Aloha

At last, it’s time to go back to Hawaii!  This trip is to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary and to complete a Bucket List item, i.e. find a geocache in all 50 states. Getting there [caption id="attachment_1190" align="alignright" width="225"] Volcano In the Cascades[/caption] We started the trip by driving to...

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Monaco

We made our way to Monaco via a TGV high speed train from Gare de Lyon in Paris.  High speed trains are wonderful, but for one minor detail.  Don't try to look at the scenery up close...

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The Bahamas

  Our intent was to visit The Bahamas last year as a part of our Key West trip.  However, that plan got sidetracked when I had to have emergency eye surgery.  We still wanted to visit the land of Trae (our one and only Bahamian friend...

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Florida Days

The Truman House   On Tuesday morning we headed about twenty miles west on Route 30A to visit the little town of Seaside, Florida.  This little community was built in the early 80s and was designed to look like an old-fashioned beach village.  Each house is a...

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PCB

  Grand Lagoon Boardwalk Our hotel is located on a peninsula on the Grand Lagoon of St. Andrew’s Bay…not quite the same beach feel as you get directly on the Gulf.  We wanted that "Gulf Beach feel" so our first destination of the day was the beach.  We stopped...

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