tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11609787079856042762024-03-13T09:19:24.397-04:00Palms - AmericanaTraveling the back roads of America since 2001Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-91891046419022516652017-08-23T16:43:00.001-04:002017-08-23T16:43:30.492-04:00Covered Bridges Ohio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Just spent the day driving around the county looking for Covered bridges.</div>
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Also found a little diner that had a good selection of homemade pies, I got the last slice of Grape pie never heard of it before so I had to try it,tasted a lot like blueberry.</div>
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We stopped by the President Garfield Nation Site. As soon as you get there sign up for the next tour then go to the museum to look around, they will call you when your tour starts,they get filled up pretty fast.</div>
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We had a real good tour guide,he was interning for the summer, the tour was about 45 minutes long and was extremely informative. Garfield had a very full life even with it being cut short.</div>
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Various rooms in the house, 29 rooms total</div>
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This plaque was made by the engraving department and as far as they know it's the only one ever made.</div>
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This wreath was sent to his funeral by Queen Victoria along with a very nice letter, Mrs Garfield had the wreath taken apart piece by piece and dipped in wax to preserve it then reassembled. </div>
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Everything in the house is original to the house, the chandlers were originally natural gas but then converted to electric. </div>
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This was his library,it contained over 5000 books, he and his wife were fluent in 6 languages. You can see in the reflection in the mirror of elaborate the wood work was, it was all hand carved by a local farmer.</div>
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There is free parking and the admission to the museum is free. There is a small but very nice garden in front of the building with about a dozen of Frederick's sculpture mixed in along with some floral painting which fit in perfectly.<br />
The museum itself is just a few rooms but they are packed with his work, enough that they remind you when taking picture please don't walk backwards because there is a very good chance that you will bump into one of the sculptures.<br />
Almost all of the exhibits inside are the original plaster castings that he had in his Birmingham studio the sculptures out side are copies made from these molds.<br />
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If you ever shopped at the old Northland Shopping Center then you will remember this one that was right in front of Hudson's<br />
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(Mother and Child)<br />
The plaster was made in 1942 right before he went off to war. The Bronze was cast in 1965<br />
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There is much to see he here, it is well worth and hour or two of your time to visit if you are ever in the area. <br />
We didn't realize how many of his pieces we had seen in your travels until we came here.<br />
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There are restaurants, stores and bathrooms at both ends as well as bathrooms in the middle.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-11376338022393841492017-07-05T17:37:00.001-04:002017-07-05T17:37:17.605-04:00On the Road Again in Fort WayneIt's been a while but let's see if I remember how to do this.<br />
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Well the daughter and her husband moved to Naples last month, the grandson is doing his last year at Loyola-Chicago and the granddaughter is starting at University of Central Florida. So we were the only ones left in Michigan. We got lucky and sold our place before we even listed it, so it's back into the motorhome and on the road, at least during the summer months. Of course our first stop is Fort Wayne,Indiana for a week so Cathy can do some genealogy research.<br />
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After spending an hour at the DMV for Cathy to re-new her driver license we headed over to Tavares to walk around the <a href="http://www.lakecountyfl.gov/hometown_highlights/discovery_gardens.aspx">Discovery Gardens</a>. This is a small garden but has always been one of our favorites.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-43071742011968615472013-02-22T09:15:00.001-05:002013-02-22T09:23:09.215-05:00Peace River Wildlife Center Revisited Did another bike ride out to <a href="http://www.peaceriverwildlifecenter.com/">PRWC</a> . There were about ten times more people then normal today. We found out that the center had been on Fox and Friends this week, they did a story about a rescued Eagle that was electrocuted last week. I think everybody was there to see the Eagle but it was in a confined area until it gets stronger. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-72829249260316032142013-02-16T22:43:00.000-05:002013-02-16T22:43:08.304-05:00A Few More Eagle PicturesStopped by today to see how the baby eagles are doing, the babies are starting to get big and flex their wings. We were told that about another 4 or 5 weeks and they will be ready to leave the nest.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-31995624142390460632013-02-09T19:38:00.000-05:002013-02-09T19:38:00.028-05:00Just a Bunch of Pictures (Photo heavy)Just a collection of pictures in no type of order from Southwest Florida.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Punta Gorda Military Museum, Christmas tree decorated with Dog Tags</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Near our RV Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Boca Granda's Lighthouses</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-35859245083188776922013-01-11T19:26:00.000-05:002013-01-11T19:26:38.482-05:00Peace River Wildlife CenterDid a little bicycle tour of downtown Punta Gorda and the river front then out to the wildlife center.<br />
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<br />On the way back into town we took a side trip to one of the nature centers to see the nesting owls.<div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-90703010418373954392013-01-03T16:53:00.000-05:002013-01-03T16:57:24.103-05:00Eagles of N Ft Myers<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;">Did a little bike ride today to go see the nesting eagles. About 5 miles from the park right along side a busy 6 lane road there is a nesting pair of eagles with two eggs, one has already hatched and the second one should follow very soon. Cathy has been watching the nest on a web cam so we figured we better go see them.</span></div>
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A little drive up to Lakeland today, made a stop at the Hollis Gardens at Lake Mirror. They were replanting a lot of the garden.</div>
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We're gone from the Winter Garden area
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Our last day at Winter Garden we spent
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Today it was tobogganing, yes with real snow, they closed of one of the downtown streets and made a ramp then covered it with a big snow making machine.</div>
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Not the biggest in the world but the kids loved it. It was in the mid 70's today.</div>
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In the middle of the bike trail they put up the Christmas tree, during the rest of the year there is a beautiful fountain located here.</div>
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And out on the bike trail right near a high school Cathy spotted this.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-51478837163683272842012-11-16T17:00:00.000-05:002012-11-16T17:00:01.351-05:00Landmark Park, Dothan AlabamaAbout three miles from the gardens is the Dothan <a href="http://www.landmarkpark.com/"> Landmark Park</a><br />
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The Agriculture Museum part is closed due to lack of funding but the other building were open to explore. We spent about an hour here, there is a nature center in the woods and about a mile of trails.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dabg.com/">Dothan Alabama Botanical Gardens</a><br />
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It was after Halloween but then still had all the scary decoration up through out the garden, these were put up by various businesses and groups from the area. Here are some of the better ones.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Over by the Wedding Chapel area the have a gate covered with locks</span>.</b></div>
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After a summer in Michigan we're ready
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since we were busy attending volleyball and football games. We would
have liked to stay for the full seasons but it was just getting to
cold. We spent the first couple of weeks hitting some of our old
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to the Huntsville Veterans Museum, well we planned an hour because it
was on the small side but we ended up spending close to 3 ½ hours
there. My main reason for wanting to go there was that I noticed on
their web page that they had on display the very first Ford prototype
Jeep, serial number 00001. This was the handmade model that they
sent to the army to test, there were a few made but this is the only
one remaining, for some reason they were able to buy it from the
Henry Ford Museum. This would have never happened if Henry the 1<sup>st</sup>
was still around. But as it turned out the highlight was that we met
a man who worked with Von Braun, right from the start right up to the
moon missions AND BEYOND. We spent more then an hour talking with
him and hearing his stories about the different behind the scene
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And then down to Montgomery, ALA for a
week. Our first stop was at the Montgomery Zoo, we were probably 2
of 100 people there today so it was like having it all to our self's.
They have made a few changes, so good, so not so good, they have put
in a Sky way, which is a ski lift that gives you a ride across the
park for a birds eye view, but to put that in they had to change the
Australian exhibit which ruined the exhibit.</div>
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One day we drove over to Cahawba which
was the first capitol of Alabama, all the remains are some ruins and
foundations, it's now a state park and they are working on buying
back the property and restoring some of the buildings. We took the
bike and spent about an hour and a half riding around the park to the
various sites and then an hour in the visitors center talking about
the history of the town with the ranger.</div>
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Another day was spent at the Lowndes
County Interpretive Center, which is a National Park site. It covers
the history of the Selma to Montgomery March in March of 1965. This
made me start thinking about how little I knew about this back in
1965 when I was a teenager, back then the local TV stations only
devoted 30 minutes in the evening to national news. If this happen
today with all the cable news networks it would be 24/7 with
worldwide coverage. If you're in the area this is an interesting 1-2
hour stop.</div>
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A week in the Foley ALA area riding a
bunch of bike trails and enjoying the weather. Then across the
panhandle and south to Wildwood where we are now. Monday we move
over to the Orlando area for a month and hopefully will get back in the Blogging habit again.</div>
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Just a collection of stuff to get caught up!<br />
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To start with, I crawled out from under the rock and joined the modern times, I finally realized that I had about 30 E-books downloaded on the laptop so when I saw that Wally World had the Kindle with a $30.00 gift card I figured I would take the jump and I'm glad I did. It's much nicer to read then the little I-Touch or balancing the laptop on your knees, after playing with it for a few days I must have been feeling pretty good because then I took another long running leap. This time I landed on a Samsung Android smart phone, a big leap for me but after playing with this thing for a few days I'm kicking myself for not getting one a long time ago. As everybody else in the world already knows these things are fantastic, I've already downloaded all 300,000 apps and have been busy trying to learn what they do.<br />
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Last week we were in Knoxville and spent a few hours at the University's Garden, well 90% of the time was spent in the Rose Garden, our favorite place. Here's a few pictures of the place,<b><span style="color: red;"> click to enlarge</span></b>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-76453661577665678762012-04-22T07:48:00.000-04:002012-04-22T07:48:06.373-04:00Rant !!!!!!<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Somebody has to say it!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Just an observation that I've made over the years and thought I would speak out about it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xH6zNr-C6o4/T5Pu3Q9zJvI/AAAAAAAAJvk/2BPBRAiT440/s1600/at+the+BEACH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xH6zNr-C6o4/T5Pu3Q9zJvI/AAAAAAAAJvk/2BPBRAiT440/s320/at+the+BEACH.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you're one of the old guys in the park,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">One of the old guys with a big gut.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A big gut that hangs over your belt.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That hangs over your belt and jiggles.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And you got man boobs.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Big ugly man boobs.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Ugly man boobs that bounce.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That bounce and are covered with mats of hair.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Then for gods sake and everybody else wear a dam shirt when you come outside.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Do you guys really get up in the morning, stand in front of the mirror in your jockey short, take a good long look and yell, Yeh! Nailed it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And for all you ladies out there that let your man go outside looking like that, SHAME ON YOU.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I mean if I need to see sickening sights like that I'll log on to People of Walmart . Com</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm Sorry was that out loud.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-29753566636808414252012-04-16T18:47:00.000-04:002012-04-16T18:47:44.197-04:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">WOW, just took a look and it's been close to two months since I've posted a blog. I only like blogging when we've been somewhere that I think other travels would be interested in and for the last couple of months we've just been wandering around, taking it easy and riding a ton of bike trails in Florida and Georgia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Right now we're camped in NE Georgia, we came over here because there are three great bike trails that cover close to 100 miles, we were going to cover it over a few days but the best laid plans went south. Some how I managed to get an infection in my should blade which was really getting sore so we stopped in a clinic and they put me on an antibiotic for ten day, the problem is while taking this antibiotic I can't go out in the sun. I hid Cathy's hammer and wooden stake, just in case.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We did manage one interesting stop while in the Gainesville area.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Santa Fe University Zoo</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This university is located in Gainesville,Florida and the zoo is a teaching zoo. They have about 75 animals on exhibit here on ten acres and is a very relaxing, uncrowded zoo. There were probably 25 to 35 student zoo keepers here and were all over the zoo, which was very nice since when one of them saw you at an exhibit they would stop to ask if you had any questions, of which we had many and they were able to answer them all.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">From the screaming Gibbons to the rare Tree Kangaroos and the uninvited Black Water Snakes we had a very enjoyable time.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you get to a zoo that has Gibbons, early you'll be able to listen to them screaming, no matter where you are in the zoo you will hear them. There was a family of gibbons here, mom, dad and their little girl, the keeper told us that the dad was a real push over for his little girl. They will give him one of his favorite treats, grapes, if mom gets the grapes dad will take them from her but as soon as his little girl shows up he just hands them over to her.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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All wildlife here is nursed back to health and released back into the wild, if they can not be released then they get to live here for life.<br />
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Carved by Peter"WOLF" Toth, we bought one of his smaller sculpture two years ago when we visited his studio/home in Florida.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160978707985604276.post-64552254307849106412012-02-05T13:26:00.001-05:002012-02-05T13:27:32.375-05:00Our week in review<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We're now in North fort Myers for the month and looking forward to staying busy seeing stuff, doing things and seeing friends and family.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We spent one day biking around<a href="http://www.leeparks.org/"> LakePark</a> which is pretty much right in the middle of Fort Myers. Once you get inside the park you'll think that you're 30 miles out int the country. They have a big lake, beaches, kayak and paddle boat rentals, one,two and four seater bikes, a miniature train to take rides around the park on, about 8 miles of hiking and biking trails (paved) and a garden.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A little cloudy one day so we went to the<a href="http://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/"> Edison Ford Winter Estates</a>, we only planed on spending a couple hours here today so we just wandered around the gardens, we're saving the museum and homes for a rainy day.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Td3PO82h_2M/Ty7Ev4VJ-4I/AAAAAAAAJb4/VWRR6tvZsWM/s1600/red+rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Td3PO82h_2M/Ty7Ev4VJ-4I/AAAAAAAAJb4/VWRR6tvZsWM/s400/red+rose.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Just about all the Heritage plants are for sale in the nursery.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Eighty degrees and sunny so we went over to Pine Island to bicycle the south half of the island. First thing we did was spot a Book sale sign at the library, so that's where we spent our first hour. The ride south to St James was pretty straight and level and boring, not a lot to see until you get to the south end and because it was a Saturday all the motorcycles were gathered at the outdoor bars with the bands playing. The one bar was karaoke and they sounded pretty bad, the other had a three piece band doing a country rock and roll which wasn't to bad. Other then the bars there is absolutely nothing there, maybe next week when we do the north end it will be better. </div><br />
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One of the houses at the end of the trail<br />
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