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Naples Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Naples, United States
Naples, Florida
This is a top pick! ... , I have been able to borrow a computer to write these quick updates and upload photos. Once I get to Mexico and beyond, I am not sure how often this will be possible but I will try. Today I walked around the Naples Pier area and downtown with Mom & ...
Full Circle
This is a top pick! Back in Naples, Florida... I have come full circle ... returning to my exact departure point before flying to Mexico three years ago. And as I sit here writing this entry to try and capture what it feels like to be home, my mind is blank. Even ...
Will American Food Variety be Reduced in Future?
Will there be less of a food selection in the future? I can remember thinking a long time ago that if global warming took place that frozen Canada might become the new "Wheat Belt." That is to say Canada might eventually have better land to grow their ...
Interesting App Idea
Interesting App Ideas Sometimes people are injured and they have to wait on the ambulance. This takes time. Sometimes it takes 20 minutes, maybe an hour or even more depending on traffic, available resources and/or the size of the city. ...
Morning bike ride at Shark Valley
... we started the 15 mile loop on our bicycles. Again abundant wildlife all around us. Alligators galore too. During our lunch break in Naples, Yolan Hotwired a hotel for us that turned out to be a bargain. We checked in early and dryed our damp camping gear ...
Confabulation
If you could magically go back and relive one day of your life would you remember what happened that day? Say it was 27 years ago. You start the day. Do you at some point say, I remember this day? After this happened this will happen… Or would you ...
Sonata
Could fracking destroy our food supply? Could something as simple as reducing the delivery of the US mail by one day save enough trees to make a difference in global warming? Would 2 days less? 3? Can you imagine a situation where the lives of thousands ...
Happy Birthday Alex! BIG 40!
Happy Birthday to my brother! Well, I'm in Naples, Florida right now, visiting my Grandmother. Deepak is in Tulsa- playing with his new iPad! (the countdown to his birthday is only 3 days!) So, the party in Bradenton was ...
CTE
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy I was watching MMA star Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's interview after his last fight against Glover Teixeira the other night on TV. Jackson made a passing mention of another fighter, Gary Goodridge, who claims to have ...
Book Review--"Assault on Reason"
... on Reason", a truly engaging and original, thought-provoking work that is chock full of new ideas and creative explanations for why the United States is having the problems that it currently has. I usually don’t go back through a book and reread it ...
west coast sampler
... Now that's the life! After Sarasota I went down to Naples. Originally I planned to do a day trip to Naples from Miami since it's way closer, but I decided to go today. I ...
St. Petersburg, Dalí Museum & Naples
... Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1300 Grafiken, Fotografien, Skulpturen und andere Kunstobjekte). Nach dem Museumsbesuch (das Haus ist großartig! Sollte man auf alle Fälle besuchen!) fahren wir nach Naples zu unserem Hotel für die letzten 5 Nächte. ...
Fort Myers
Wir verbringen den heutigen Tag in Fort Myers und bummeln uns erstmal durch die Miromar Outlets & die Tanger Outlets, bis wir dann am Strand von Fort Myers Beach landen. ...
Relax-Tage in Naples
Wir haben noch 3 volle Urlaubstage, die wir ganz entspannt in Naples verbringen. Vom Vanderbilt zum Lowdermilk Beach, an der 5th Avenue und der 3rd Street, in der Coconut Point Mall und dem Coastland Center, die Abende am Riverwalk - Naples ist die ideale ...
MMA
MMA I thought I would put all the things I have observed about MMA in one place for easier access. I'll need to go through and clean up the punctuation later. If an opponent is moving forward quickly your punch will have much more impact on them. ...
Collier Seminole State Park, Everglades
... pushed along by the Campground Host....we took off to Collier Seminole State Park in the Everglades National Park just south of Naples. The place was jumping! Moms and Dads and kids and Grandparents!!! It was one of the most jumping campgrounds we ...
Sun, Fishermen and on to the Everglades
... we were missing? Anyway, we stopped off at a marina for a walk and to enjoy the calm waters and wildlife before heading back to Naples for a look at the pier. The sand was a lovely white-gold colour and it wasn't that busy either. At the end of the pier ...
Group Purchasing Power
In this crazy world you just never know what people are going to come up with next. I saw an ad the other day that had pictures of people from what looked like their Facebook page profile next to a product they were endorsing. There were quotes next to ...
headed to Miami
We loaded the rental car on Wednesday night (1/14) and departed early on Thursday morning. I had reserved a minivan but upgraded to a Ford Expedition at the rental car desk. Good decision, because it was packed to the ceiling. Of ...
Genetic Testing
Genetic Testing Geneticists have had the ability to interpret people's ancestral lineage based on blood samples for around 10 years now. People can purchase these tests for about 300 US dollars. These findings open room for new analysis about our past ...
Famous in the Future
"There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had well nigh thought and said." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson in ...
Review of Movie--Moneyball
Review of Moneyball "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball" – Billy Beane Moneyball is a fascinating cinematic take on how newer methods of statistical information gathering have steered the course of modern American baseball especially in ...
Just a stop on the way
Mike and Dutch enjoyed anchoring in Naples just off the shore of some very nice, expensive ...
inventions, Ideas or Improvements on Existing Dev
Inventions, Ideas or improvements on Existing Devices This is a very simple idea, but I don't see it actually implemented anywhere and I think if it was it could provide huge savings across many countries. We have long known of the system of ...
Humorous and Other Observations
... then cars will be driving themselves. Since eyes use muscles to focus shouldn't weightlifting prevent needing glasses? One day the United Nations and it's members will hold so much power collectively they will need to live on a space station. ...
More Random Thoughts and Observations
More ideas 1/19/13 A beer named "Obama" The best time to live in the United States was between the years 1945 and 1996. Turn some prisons into half way homes. Might we one day create a heaven for robots to go to? A person never remains half as ...
Last Rest !!!
... where there is another entrance (the one used by most tourists). In any case, we are very happy about the error as Naples is a wonderful town, clean, orderly and with wonderfully clean beaches. You can see its expensive to live around here. We were ...
More MMA Observations
More observations on the wonderful sport of MMA. Shoot for one leg, twist in a tight circle until opponent off balance then swipe/kick out remaining leg and follow to ground Shoot for one leg, twist in a tight circle until opponent off ...