Marathon, United States Travel Blogs

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Jun 3, 2009 (5 photos)

Road Trip Videos
Feb 20, 2009 (12 photos)

As promised, here are the missing videos (selected) from the first half of the trip.  I had problems converting my QuickTime vids from the camera to a proper format and size for the blog.  I actually bought a video editing program (Corel Video ...

Bouncing around the Keys
Jan 1, 2009 (44 photos)

... and Fred, who were staying at Long Key and made dinner plans to eat at a hole in the wall called Fish Tales on Marathon Key. Good dinner with great conversation and connection. The staff had to ask us to leave when we were the last people hanging out ...

Big Bend National Park
Dec 17, 2007 (34 photos)

... With Great memories, quite a few photos and some very sore feet from pulling the boat upstream we left big bend to stay at Marathon, the gateway  town for a couple of nights R&R with a full hookup. We have slowed down a bit knowing we won't get to ...

Did I say nowhere TX?
Jun 3, 2007 (4 photos)

OK this place makes the last place look like Vegas.  I am sitting in back of a grocery mart on a milk carton, plugged into an outlet that I share with the ice machine as the cats walk by looking at me with a puzzled stare.  Now this is ...

Big Bend - Hiking in Texas
Oct 31, 2007 (11 photos)

Big Bend Naitional Park is in remote southwest Texas - NOT close to anything. A full day's drive from El Paso got me there just in time for a good's nite rest at the Park Lodge - pictured on the right with fog rolling in. The Park is a full 7-10 hour ...

Marathon, a sailor's mecca
Dec 16, 2006

Oh, the crab pots! Mike and Dutch threaded their way through the dangerous crab pots--a tiring trip.  Were glad to reach the friendly town of Marathon.

Enroute to Key Largo, FL
May 14, 2007

... know.  He started snorkeling around here when he was 12.  So late in the day we continue to motor over to Marathon which is about halfway back along the keys.   We drop the hook in an exposed bay off of Boot Island near Marathon.& ...

Big Bend National Park, Texas
Jan 4, 2008 (39 photos)

This New Year's, Kelly and I decided to try out all the new gear we gave each other for Christmas.  So, we loaded the car with everything we could possibly want or need and set out Friday afternoon after work, headed for Big Bend National Park in far ...

Day Twenty and Twenty-one
May 8, 2008 (25 photos)

... how close to Cuba we are...many coast guard boats on the lookout for speedboats bringing in illegals.    After touring Marathon and stopping by the West Marine for a few items, we returned to "paradise" and enjoyed another fine afternoon and ...

Big Bend National Park
Apr 6, 2005

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S.Padre Island to Big Bend National Park
Mar 28, 2008 (19 photos)

... day.  According to the tour books, Marathon is the last chance for gas before continuing down to Big Bend Nat. Park.  Marathon looks more like a ghost town than a last chance for anything but the campground was very nice.  They had a  ...

Two months on the intercoastal waterway.
Dec 2, 1981

We motored much of the way. Sailed in bays and sounds and some rivers when we could.  We anchored out every night.  We were not much for night traveling. 

Left Exumas, Bahamas, to miss Hurricane season.
Aug 13, 1983

Back to the "grind" to work.

Day 22: Fort Davis, TX to Marathon, TX
Mar 31, 2006

Day 22: Fort Davis, Texas to Marathon, Texas (60 miles; 3:31) Today we rode through a broad desert plain flanked on both sides by typically Texan foothills and partially eroded remnants of mountains that looked as if they might have been really ...

The Keys
Feb 6, 2003

Key West