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Today I toured The Hermitage - Home of President Andrew Jackson. “Old Hickory” was our seventh President from 1829-1837 and Nashville is where he made his home with wife Rachelle.  As you walk around the grounds and buildings, you have a audio player that gives you a narrative for each [...]

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Day two at Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park and the grasshoppers are still chirping.  I have never heard grasshoppers go at it like this, my friends don’t even hear them, but man are they loud, so loud I feel like I have to yell to be heard over them when [...]

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I arrived at the Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park last night and easily found my friends at the “Gee Creek” campground.  How nice to arrive at camp and all the tents are set up already… thanks Ferret!!  After breakfast, Tammy, I and the girls, Barbara and Alyssa, take a trip [...]

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This morning Maria and I took the half day Holoholo Hualalai PinzTrek tour, again from Hawaii Forest & Trail, and today’s guide is Danny and our transportation is a 6-wheeled off-road vehicle that looks like it was made for carrying military troops. We first stopped at the Mountain Thunder [...]

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Bright and early, in the rain before breakfast, Maria and I head over to the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort to catch the Grand Circle Island tour bus by Polynesian Adventure Tours; this will be an all day tour of 260 miles around the entire island.  Our driver and tour guide [...]