Oh my, it is now fall and I haven’t updated our adventure blog since our trip to Jekyll Island, the Okefenokee Swamp and Panama City Beach. That was a wonderful adventure. We haven’t had any other big camping trips, just keeping busy locally. Moving to a new house has been a big step for us and is keeping us quite busy – some improvements and discovering what will grow on our acre. Figs were a big surprise, keeping Doug busy with making preserves, tarts and breads. We planted two crops of delicious corn, were overrun with yellow squash and were surprised with so many blooming flowers and shrubs. And Doug has been crafting lots of new glass sculptures, bird baths and solar fountains, now that he has a new dedicated studio space over the garage. Several new videos have been posted to his YouTube channel – check them out!
We have also been exploring the “neighborhood” by visiting some fun wineries in the Georgia Mountains with friends and family – part of our Brew Crew. We still have a few great breweries nearby that feature some delicious craft beers and food trucks. We went kart racing at Atlanta Motorsports Park with family and had a blast! Jason is head chef there and is building out several great eateries for guests. A Taste of Woodstock local food festival was lots of fun and we volunteered to pour at Acworth’s mimosa festival (that featured a monster thunderstorm that drenched us just as our shift began!).
We did have a camping week at our nearby Lake Allatoona, which was great. Our grandsons joined us overnight and we had fun with the kayak and paddleboards. It might just have been our last camping adventure in the motorhome, as we have decided it is time to clean it up and put it up for sale. It is rather sad, since we have had such amazing, exciting adventures in it over the past 10 years. It took us to all of the national parks we could reach (excepting the Pacific coast), many fantastic state parks and so many wild and crazy adventures. That may not end, just not in this particular motorhome.
You might wonder why this post, given that we really haven’t been camping at the beach, in the mountains, or someplace off the grid in the West. Well, we have our next adventure coming up and I wanted to alert you to what may be posted on the blog by Thanksgiving. To celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary this year, we decided to visit a place that holds a lot of meaning for wildlife biologists like us: visiting the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador. This is a special place that instructed Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution. Our trip will start with a day in Quito, Ecuador before flying to the coast and boarding our ship, the Celebrity Flora – limited to 100 guests and reached by a zodiac raft.
Each of our seven days onboard will include morning and afternoon hikes, snorkels, exploration and discovery, moving between several islands. We are so excited and maybe just a little nervous about this exploration cruise. It should truly be a trip of a lifetime and I hope to have enough stories and pictures to share when we get back. I will take a notebook instead of the computer, so it may take a while to compose the blog … and to sort through what should be awesome pictures and video.
So stay tuned for the big post-cruise posting while you are sipping your pumpkin spice latte and bundling up in the chilly fall weather. Hope to share more soon. And thanks for being a faithful reader. Why not check out some of my glass sculpture videos?
Adventures with Doug and Jackie 
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