Travel Blogs from Jacksonville, United States
Contiki European Vista Tour
In June of 2007 I'm going on an organized tour of Europe. The trip lasts 21 days and visits the countires of England, France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein, Belgium and the Netherlands. The trip was organized ...
Paranormal Activities
The Chapter Services team was reunited in Indianapolis to make the trek to Jacksonville, Illinois to conquer our fears and experience real-life ghost hunting first-hand. We visited an abandoned opera house as well as an abandoned apartment complex ...
I meet the cute guys, NOW?
Cumberland Island, GA March 23, 24, 25 Rejected Titles: Back where I started Six inch holes, again?? For my last stop, I added Cumberland Island to my country-wide loop. I was lucky to get a spot with such little notice but with the rain ...
Day 24 - Dec 1 - Bugs on Our Teeth
... in our usual spot - close behind Paloma. Three hours later we peeled off from Paloma and tied up at Beach Marine in Jacksonville. Gerry contacted their friends, Ann and Ed Froelich and arranged for them to come pick us up for a spin in his ...
Georgia On My Mind
... nice lunch. This RV park is just over the Florida border in Georgia. It was a relaxing afternoon and we drove back to Jacksonville in the evening. We ended up at The Jacksonville Landing which is their river walk area with shops and restaurants. They were ...
Good to be home
After 8 hours on Air India Flight 191 from Paris and another three hours from New York to Jacksonville we are home. We had an amazing time, but it is definitely good to be home. Thank you for all your comments, they made our journey! We ...
Pretty first camp, oh and look! A winery!
Some things I already knew about America but had forgotten: - National pride extends to the Stars and Stripes flying in practically every front yard and outside of every store - Walmart is bogan Mecca - Cheese in a can and grits as ...
Problem with ship - day 2 Mayport
After a night of problems with the ship you had to turn back around this morning and pull back in. Now you are underway ...
Preparing for China
Hello or Ni hao in Mandarin, I am currently preparing for my trip to China for the year. I leave the first week of August for an 11 month program in which I will teach oral English to middle and high school students in Hunan Province, China . The ...
FLORIDA
After 950 miles, we arrived exhausted in Jacksonville, Florida!!! It was real nice to see the palms and to start feeling the holliday spirit!!! 2 days of beach and ...
Departure!
... ;The night before we left the USA we planned to stay at a hotel near the airport for convenience. Getting to Jacksonville was quite hectic due to interstate detours from road constructrion in the middle of the night. After finally arriving ...
Early start to beat the heat
Trying to get as far north as early as possible tomorrow. First post will be tomorrow ...
Der erste Tag in JAX
... !!! Der Flug von Philadelphia nach Jacksonville klappt ohne Probleme und wir landen um etwa 10 Uhr Orstzeit auf dem Jacksonville International Airport - geschafft! Auch alle Gepäckstücke sind zusammen mit uns am richtigen Ort angekommen, jetzt heißt es ...
1,500 miles in 23 hours (non-stop)
The first day we made it to Blythe California. We stayed at the Comfort Inn. The accomodations were fantastic! From there, Susan and I switched off driving and went non stop to Little Rock Air Force Base. We called for ...
Elevation 38,000 feet Speed 525 mph
... the very warm plane and began our taxi. It was all so surreal... I was really on a plane about to fly from one end of the united states to the other! We flew into san francisco at around 8:20 Saturday night, which is 11:20 our time and my body felt it, ...
New Chapter, old boat
Well hopefully this blog lasts a bit longer than the last, I know starting a blog means upkeeping it and will do my best to keep this one going unlike my last attempt. When I had last written I was in a quaint little town in northern Italy. ...
Kingsley Plantation
Won't be going back. Not for a long time, anyway. There are so many memories there. Of all kinds. ...
Riverboat Cruise with Captain Pajama Dave
Amelia River Cruise: The next day, we met up with Nola and Stuart again and went on the Amelia River Cruise. Our Captain was not Kaptain. Our Captain was Captain Pajama Dave, so named for obvious reasons. He showed us ...
Jumping ship confirmed!
Wednesday 04 April 2012 We arrived here at 07.00 in the dark. What a contrast to our arrival yesterday into Miami. Miami was glitz personified and this place is business like, lots of orange, working lights on the factories, ...
Road Trip to Key West
Day 1 Our trip to Key West following the coastal highway led us down Route A1A past Ponte Vedra Beach and the old Marineland remembered from my youth. We continued watching the coastline in Flagler Beach, eventually coming to honky-tonk ...
Jacksonville
... an average size school, which I found hard to believe indeed. Exhausted, hot and bothered we began to head out of Jacksonville after Ryan had grabbed his paintball gun out of storage. The rain hit then as if a giant hose had been pointed straight ...
Kickbacks Gastropub -Unibroue Beer Dinner
... to expound on just what a unique adventure has occurred. Last nights Unibroue Beer Pairing Dinner at Kickbacks Gastropub in Jacksonville, FL was just one of those nights. Steve Flores the heart of Kickbacks has a passion for beer and loves to ...
Good to be home
After 8 hours on Air India Flight 191 from Paris and another 3 hours from New York to Jax we are home. We had an amazing time, but it is definately good to be home. Thank you for all your comments as made our jouney. We added some pictures from ...
Went looking for adventure and found it!!
We arrived in Jacksonville yesterday afternoon, soon after setting up the rig the skies turned very dark, a huge thunderstorm was forming to the south of us. The thunder was amazing, even making the 6pm news (1200 lightening strikes) but fortunately we ...
Last minute trips....great idea!
My husband and I are not very spontaneous until recently.Having a passport in hand, opens up the world. When we saw a 14 day cruise for $500 we jumped on it, airfare round-trip was less then $600 each. That is unseen. With my changing health and ...

