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Welcome!

Welcome to our site!

Our goal with this site is to keep family and friends updated on our adventures. We want to stay connected with you! We hope to use this blog as a way to do that.

We will be sharing our thoughts on why we decided to do what we’re doing, how we decided to go where we are going, and then let you discover and explore the areas with us as we post images, videos and thoughts about what we are experiencing.

If you have questions or just want to get a hold of us, don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Pensacola Lighthouse, 165 Years and Still Shining

By cleichty on Saturday, January 10, 2026
Pensacola Lighthouse, 165 Years and Still Shining

Not every lighthouse is easy to get to.

We’d come east to Gulf Shores, but the Pensacola Lighthouse pulled us back west. Forty minutes back into Florida. Worth every mile.

The lighthouse sits inside Naval Air Station Pensacola. You have to enter the base to reach it.

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Panama City Beach — Three Nights on the Gulf

By cleichty on Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Panama City Beach — Three Nights on the Gulf

After the busyness of the holiday coast, we needed to exhale.

Panama City Beach was just the place.

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Bonita Springs, Bradenton, and Steinhatchee — Moving Through Florida

By cleichty on Sunday, January 4, 2026
Bonita Springs, Bradenton, and Steinhatchee — Moving Through Florida

Not every stop on a road trip is a destination.

Some stops are just… the road.

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Two Lighthouses, One Epic Day

By cleichty on Thursday, January 1, 2026
Two Lighthouses, One Epic Day

Wowsa. What a day!

Not one lighthouse. Two.

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Oak Island Lighthouse — 131 Steps and a Great Story

By cleichty on Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Oak Island Lighthouse — 131 Steps and a Great Story

We had already fallen for Oak Island.

The beach. The bikes. The quiet.

And then we discovered there was a lighthouse, in Caswell Beach, right next to the town of Oak Island. Of course we had to go!

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