Never too old to travel!
After walking the broad Fernandina Beach and touring Fort Clinch, we longed for one last coastal sunset before heading back to Tennessee the following morning. Ah, yes. This will do: the waterfront at Amelia Island. As we arrived, a man standing on a ramp was ending what he later told us was a nightly ritual: pitching fish […]
Read More…The graceful arches of stately Southern trees form a suitable canopy over the road leading to Fort Clinch State Park on Fernandina Beach, Florida. The icing, so to speak, on all this Southern graciousness are the touches of green along the branches and wisps of Spanish moss that move delicately with the wind. For more […]
Read More…As we said in our last post, we just didn’t have enough time on Amelia Island. After viewing two other forts (Fort Frederica at St. Simons and Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine), we knew we couldn’t leave without seeing Fort Clinch. Fort Clinch, located within Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina Beach, Florida, had […]
Read More…The last stop on our Coasting adventure was brief. Too brief. And, as it turned out, a bit of a mystery. We arrived in Amelia Island, Florida, early on a Friday afternoon, anxious to see as much as we could before heading home the next morning. At a public access, we walked from the parking […]
Read More…As we prepared to say good-bye to St. Augustine, a town of many surprises, we remembered the sites that have become must-see’s for tourists: Castillo de San Marcos, Flagler College, the Oldest Wood Schoolhouse in America, etc. But we found ourselves leaning more and more toward an appreciation of the ordinary as much the tourist-book notables. Ordinary is […]
Read More…With our third entry in the Coasting series based upon our stay in St. Augustine, we have this maybe-because-we’re-old-folks revelation: You don’t have to climb to the top to enjoy the St. Augustine Lighthouse! Really? you might say in disbelief. You couldn’t even make it 219 steps for a glimpse of the nation’s oldest port and the […]
Read More…If you’re the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, you deserve to be seen, climbed on, photographed, and written about. Right? Well, we think so. Of the three forts we toured (Fort Frederica in St. Simons, Georgia; Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, and Fort Clinch in Fernandina Beach, Florida) during our […]
Read More…This is the year! America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida, celebrates its 450th anniversary! So this is your year to plan a trip and make a list — a “must-do list” for beautiful St. Augustine. Not sure what we expected, having waited until our retirement years to see St. Augustine for the first time. But […]
Read More…While roaming through Fort Clinch State Park at Fernandina Beach, Florida, on a weekend when re-enactors were not only in costume but also in character, Bert wandered into a spacious room to take a look at an intriguing doorway. The “guard” moved in, seizing the moment to talk about the prison cell behind the door. […]
Read More…Our Coasting series continues with a short one-day trip to Jekyll Island, one of four barrier islands in Georgia. Although Jekyll can boast of lovely marshes, moss-draped live oaks, and quiet beaches, it was the historically lavish lifestyle of the rich and famous that drew us to the historic district where several of the buildings […]
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