M&R's Vacation Stories

Link to the album Friday December 20th Instead of going to Orlando for Christmas this year we decided it would be good to visit Miami instead.  And since Christmas falls in the middle of the week this year, why not make a stop in the Everglades over the weekend before.  I mean we've been on a roll this year with National Parks, so why not stop at one of the most famous ones in Florida right? We left on Friday the 20th on a flight that was supposed to leave at 830, but for some reason our flight didn't leave until 930 which had us landing at 1am.  Of course we didn't fly directly into Miami because flying into Fort Lauderdale was cheaper.  This got us into our hotel at 2am and to sleep shortly there after.  Saturday December 21st  Since a late arrival happened, there was definitely going to be a bit of sleeping and that is what happened.  But the morning did come and the plan for the day was to visit the park with Aimel and Rafi, Rebe's...

Fundy (Bay of Fundy Area) and Acadia National Park  Trailhead view from Dickson Falls, Fundy National Park Link to photos Thursday Sept 26th Boston - Bangor For our big National Park trip this year we decided on Acadia National Park (and this time of year for the color changing of the LEAVES), but not just Acadia we were also going to venture further up the road into Canada to Fundy National Park named for the Bay of Fundy on which it is located.  We keep asking ourselves why do we drive so much on these trips… we’ll have to work on this. The day started as a normal day, both of us got up early and actually did some work.  I answered a few emails from home and Rebe actually went into the office to tie up some loose ends before we caught our flight out at 2pm.  The flight was to Boston as that was about as far as we could get directly with Southwest, the direct flight, pricing, companion pass and timing was the reason for the Boston pick.  Not ide...