Outdoors Rambler   

Note: This weblog is loaded with photos (including an extensive gallery of food we enjoyed) and a few videos covering this seven-day cruise to the western Caribbean aboard the Margaritaville at Sea Islander. Even with my youthful exposure to the popular television comedy series “The Love Boat,” I never felt an itch to say, “I need to take a cruise.” Traveling on land, with my own car or a rental in a foreign country, was always the norm. I shy away from bus tours, with the ga

The scent of salt and seaweed permeated the breeze off Casco Bay as we rolled into Henry Allen’s Seafood on Lookout Point Road in Harpswell, Maine. The place is nestled into a tiny cove off Middle Bay, the nearby rocky ledges and protruding points at falling tide revealing golden brown swaths of sugar kelp, patches of Irish moss, and rockweed. “This is why I wanted to come here,” I told Maria. “The views, the smells, the seafood.” Indeed, the little seafood retail barn and w

Discover fabulous fishing, gourmet dining and "Old Florida" living at the beautiful Tarpon Lodge in Pine Island in Lee County.

I’ll let you in on a secret. I love to visit St. Augustine, Florida. For one, it’s a fairly easy day’s drive from my home in Virginia...

Islamorada, Florida -- the place where the Upper Keys begin their rustic resplendence and any hint of cosmopolitan transitions to quirky....

St. Augustine is one of my favorite cities to visit - so much history, architecture, beautiful water, great food. Speaking of great food,...