Lake Okeechobee means “big water” in the Seminole Indian language. It has a surface area of 730 square miles with an average depth of 9 feet. Dave refers to it as a larger version of Red Lake in Mn., just as a reference for us northerners. If you are a fisher person, there are multiple […]
Lake Okeechobee – The Big “O” Read More »
Why would you want to do this? Dave and I are about 18 months into our fulltime adventure and while going back to Minnesota in the summer and working on the cabin is fun, we wanted a way to give back and still experience areas we couldn’t normally see, for more than just those few
Resident Volunteering – What’s that all about? Read More »
It’s still hurricane season in Southwest Florida and for us, this is a first, ever. Ian is headed our way. Almost directly into the park we have been staying/working at for the last month. Being from Minnesota, we know how to deal with tornados, sleet, snow, ice storms and even blizzards. Understanding a 10′ surge
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After a few months of Minnesota weather, where it only got to be 80 degrees 3 times over our 3 months stay, arriving in SW Florida in August, was a real environment shocker. To say we are sweating our a**es off, is probably the understatement of the year, for us. For instance, it was cool
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On our way to Minnesota this spring, we stopped in Chatham, Illinois for two nights. While we were here, we discovered there was so much good information in this area, we thought it warranted another, longer, stay on our way back south. We really wanted to see the President Lincoln Museum, library and tomb and
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