http://blog.on4bam.com/blog ON4BAM Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:39:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The November 1st weekend is the time IVAO participates in the flightsimulator weekend in Lelystad. This is a perfect time for us to go geocaching in a region further away from home. The area Lelystad - Emmeloord still has a lot of open spaces and forest areas and thus hiding ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/38 A few weeks ago we already decided on a destination for or 2009 summer vacation. Unlike previous holidays we have now chosen a less obvious destination where getting around will not be as easy as in the USA, Europe or Australia. Japan is still a mysterious place to us and ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/35 Strange things happen at airports, to protect the "guilty" I won't say where this happened but hey, if you read the blog you'll know. Security in important but the liquids rule is in my view "over the top" however, we do abide by it. While checking in our luggage for ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/32 During this trip we were sometimes struck by the way things have changed over the years. Our first US holiday was in 1986,  our first and only visit to New York was in 1987 and we were in Florida in 1987, 1993 and 1999. What we noticed when entering the US ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/31 Another early morning. Most of our stuff was already packed and after we had breakfast we needed only little time to get going. We drove north to Miami International Airport where we returned our rental car and checked in our luggage. The first leg of our journey was by Delta ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/30 We didn't plan ahead for today. Just one activity was on our list for  a long time: a parasail flight. The company we choose opened at 10 and a little later we were there. No one else showed up while the boat was prepared so it was just us. We ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/29 We planned a daytrip to the Theatre of the Seas in Islamorada. This is a small park has a dolphin, sealion and parrotshow and features seaturtles, rays, sharks and tropical fish. We spend about 3 hours here before driving back to Key Largo. Along the way we made several stops ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/28 Another lazy day. Sleep in, breakfast, walk across the highway to the snorkel company to get our boarding pass. We boarded the boat by noon and 15 minutes later we left the dock for John Pennekamp State Park. We anchored at 3 different snorkeling sites with lots of fish and ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/27 No need to rush today. We slept in, got breakfast, loaded up the car and took US 1 north. 25 Km from Key West we had our first stop, a bat tower. Once build thinking that bats would come and live in this 18m high tower and eat most of ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/26 At last a day when we didn't have to get up early. We were booked on a kayak excursion that started at 10.30. After signing the disclaimer (no matter what, it's not the tour company's fault) we were given our kayaks for a 2.5 hour paddle on the calm warm ... http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/archives/25