It’s that time of year – Girl Scout Cookie Fundraiser! Mmmmm love me some Thin Mints. While Girl Scout cookies are the one fundraiser I like my daughters’ doing, I get VERY annoyed by the rest, especially fundraisers by organizations for which we pay membership. Frankly, I’d rather pay an extra $20 than sell more [...]

I regularly write about the attractions here in Florida: Disney, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Universal Studios. Did you realize that 3 of those attractions are located within a ten minute drive of each other, with Busch Gardens and our great Florida beaches on either coast only an hour away? You can fly into Orlando and [...]

This is it. If you haven’t ordered your Letters From Santa for the kids, then time is running out! These letters are customizable – of course, you can add the child’s name, but you can also add three accomplishments and three gifts from the child’s wish list. So, in addition to making the magic last [...]

We’re taking the kids to Walt Disney World in Orlando this weekend. We enjoy Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Christmas Party, held various evenings through the holiday season. We usually stay overnight and do something the following day, but this year I’m stumped for ideas. After checking with the folks at Trusted Tours, I see Medieval [...]

One of our favorite places on the planet is Amelia Island. Living in Northeast Florida, Amelia is the perfect getaway for us – just far enough away that it feels like we’re on vacation, close enough to book it back home in an emergency. When we go for a weekend, we stay in one of [...]

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Michael Corleone was the chef. In this scene, he tells his brother-in-law Carlo he won’t kill him as revenge for setting up Sonny because he doesn’t want to make his sister a widow, then sends him to the car where he gets garroted. Barzini is dead. So [...]

So, I talk about crime in Florida pretty regularly. Hard not to, what with drunken parents passing out in the car with kids in the backseat, or politicians being arrested for soliciting male prostitutes and what not. Florida’s got its own vibe when it comes to crime. So, what do you get for that hard-working [...]

This is the best time of year in St. Augustine. The weather is beautiful and the city does a great job of decorating with Night of Lights. There are also activities every single weekend, and one of the cool things to do is the St. Augustine Artwalk. On the first Friday and Saturday every month, [...]

My commute sucks, and not just because of the 45 minutes I spend on the road each way. Gas and maintenance on my car reminds me how much I need to get a job closer to home. My wife and Live on coupons, especially for car maintenance. I checked out the coupons available with AAMCO [...]

Man, I freaking hate looking for hotels on the internet. I want the best rate possible, so I hop on one site, do my best there, then hop on another and do the same, then another, then another… It’s enough to make an obsessive-compulsive lose his mind. HotelsCombined.com solves that problem for me. They search [...]