TIME TO HUG NATURE IN NAPLES

It’s great to be a tourist in my great hometown. I’ll save my past middle-through-high school, teenage snubbing of Naples, FL for another time. On Saturday, I left the golf courses and winter getaways of Naples and seemed to head for the surrounding swamp. It wasn’t a purely Seminole experience; I landed in Rookery Bay—nature…

MY TREASURE AT ELDORADO CANYON PARK

I’m sorry Red Rocks Park… you just got ROCKed, STONEd, and national PARKed! [Pyra adds the last story to her Colorado vacay series… a few weeks late…] Since my clan was still running around the Boulder, CO area, we wanted to see the mountains that were surrounding us and teasing us with their… bumps. We…

CELESTIAL TEA TOURING

You’ve seen it on the grocery shelves. Boxes of tea decorated with ethereal drawings of tigers, butterflies, or sleeping bears. Celestial Tea…and now I was to visit one of its factories in Boulder, CO. You know I love factory tours… but now I’m twitching. I don’t know anything about tea; I just know that this…

ROAMING THE RED ROCKS PARK

Nature called– and I when I gotta go I gotta go. Geeeez… I mean Colorado has so many natural destinations that it would have been cruel punishment to visit the state without going to any of nature’s wonders. RED ROCKS PARK AND AMPITHEATRE Just south of Denver, Red Rocks Park is full of… duh… red…