Big Bend Ranch State Park Mt. Biking
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 24, 20196 min read
River Mountain Biking in Arkansas
Welcome to Mississippi! Just as we crossed the border we got a cell phone alert for flash floods. I stopped at a mini-mart. I said to the...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 23, 20194 min read
Scuba Diving the Blue Grotto
Diving the Blue Grotto The color is surreal. A blue fire opens up above me like a precious blue opal stone. From this vantage the...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 23, 20191 min read
Below the Clouds, Cheaha Falls
Cheaha mountain is the highest point in Alabama with views of the surrounding countryside. How amazing, we thought. So we decided to...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 22, 20193 min read
Side Trip to Natural Bridge Alabama
We were driving down highway 22 in northern Alabama when we saw a sign that said "Natural Bridge Next Exit". We quickly veered off the...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 20, 20194 min read
Alabama is Home to Sweet Mt. Bike Trails
What do you think of when you picture Alabama? Probably not tons of mt. bike trails with lots of fun features like technical rock...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 19, 20194 min read
Southern Singletrack
I've always thought of Georgia as home to the smooth southern drawl, plantation mansions, and a slower pace of life. What I found...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 14, 20197 min read
Crystal River Springs and the Manatees
Guidelines for swimming with manatees. Information on Florida’s springs Paddle Florida: Planning your paddling adventure. On our journey...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 9, 20191 min read
Camping in the Big Cypress National Preserve
Monument Lake Campground Big Cypress National Preserve Imagine pulling up to a campground around a small beautiful lake. Campsites next...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 5, 20191 min read
The Shark Valley of the Everglades
I know you are probably thinking that Shark Valley has sharks. I wondered that myself, so I "googled it". The explanation I found was...
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Lisa Parsons
Feb 5, 20196 min read
Bird Rookery Swamp and the Otters at Play
Off the beaten path is the Bird Rookery Swamp just northeast of Naples Florida. The cypress-maple swamp sits adjacent to a more, well...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 28, 20192 min read
Oleta River State Park, An Urban Mt. Biking Oasis
View from one of the picnic beaches along Biscayne Bay We discovered an amazing park thirty minutes from downtown Miami. This beautiful...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 26, 20196 min read
Gator Land
Our young nine-year-old nephew, Kieran, flew in with his dad, Larry, from Seattle Washington. They were here to visit Grandma who lives...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 22, 20197 min read
Anarchy in the Everglades National Park
As the U.S. Federal Government shut down moved into its 28th day, we wondered what we would find as we drove through the unmanned...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 21, 20192 min read
Sands Through the Hour Glass
So are the days of Key West “In the air tonight” by Phil Collins, an 80s hit played in the bar as we passed by. Further on Foreigner's...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 14, 20194 min read
NO Dogs!!
We rode up to the gate to Markham Mountain Bike Park in Davie Florida near Fort Lauderdale. We were ready to try out some new trails and...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 13, 20191 min read
Swamp Mt. Biking Part 2
David just uploaded video from his GoPro that shows terrain and landscape on the mountail bike trails are in Alafia River. It also shows...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 12, 20193 min read
Evening on the Levee
Everglades Conservation Levee Trail We had no idea when we headed for the levee that runs between civilization and the Everglades, that...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 8, 20192 min read
Little Manatee River State Park
We found another out of the way park to camp at in the interior part of Florida. Late in the day this park had three spots left. As we...
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Lisa Parsons
Jan 7, 20194 min read
Swamp Mountain Biking
Alafia State Park Mountain Bike Trails We heard about this trail system from a couple of local mt. bikers we met when we were riding...
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