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Mama on the Move - Goin’ with the Flow in Daytona
By MountainMama | April 15, 2008
I’m in Daytona Beach, Florida, on a research trip, thanks to new friends at the Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors’ Bureau. And it’s cold. Like, really cold. Like, record lows cold. Did I mention it’s windy, too?
That means no surfing lessons for me on the 23 miles of famous beach. No parasailing over the Atlantic Ocean. No deep-sea fishing for the journalists who wanted to return home with tales of “the one that got away.”
Instead, our lovely hostesses arranged for us to go on a jet boat ride on the Intracoastal Waterway. Yes, we were cold. Yes, we were wet. (Thank you, quick-drying Water Girl capris from AltrecOutlet.com.) But we had a ball — laughing a lot while making 360-degree turns at 50 miles an hour on a 12-seater boat. And we spotted a dolphin in the channel (okay, so boat captain Bill may have frightened it a bit when he revved the engine in a no-wake zone, all in the name of attempting to get a good photo from the nearby dock). That’s fellow travel writer Karon Warren with me above, after our boat ride. (She’s probably going to kill me for posting it…)
Our group also toured the Marine Science Center (with kids’-eye-view exhibits and a sea-turtle hospital) and climbed the 203 spiral steps to the top of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse (Florida’s tallest, with some fascinating history exhibits).
I’m praying to the weather goddesses tonight that the wind will die down so this MountainMama can go SKYDIVING tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
Topics: Family Travel, The Cookie Jar |
April 15th, 2008 at
Oh yeah. Karon is going to kill you. I’m glad you’re having a great time, even though it is so cold.
April 28th, 2008 at
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