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Spring Fling

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I am so excited that I just booked my Spring Fling trip. I can’t say that I came up with the name but it works for me! I will be going to the King and Prince resort on St. Simons Island. If you are not familiar St. Simons is a small island off the coast of Georgia. I have been there many times before but never in the spring time.

“The community and the island are interchangeable, known simply as “St. Simons Island”, or locally as “The Island”. St. Simons is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and according to the 2010 census, the island had a population of 12,743.

Located on the southeast Georgia coast, midway between Savannah and Jacksonville, St. Simons Island is both a seaside resort and residential community. It is the largest of Georgia’s renowned Golden Isles (along with Sea Island, Jekyll Island, and privately owned Little St. Simons Island). Visitors are drawn to the Island for its warm climate, beaches, variety of outdoor activities, shops and restaurants, historical sites, and its natural environment.

Originally inhabited by tribes of the Creek Nation, the area of South Georgia that includes St. Simons Island was contested by the Spaniards, English and French. After securing the Georgia colony, the English cultivated the land for rice and cotton plantations worked by large numbers of African slaves, who created the unique Gullah culture that survives to this day.” via Wikipedia

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These are just a few of the things that I will be doing on my trip!

  • Visit the King and Prince Resort’s ECHO restaurant.
  • Tour St. Simons Island aboard the Lighthouse Trolley.
  • Culinary exploration of the finest Georgia Grown Products and Island Dining! Including Georgia Sea Grill, Gnat’s Landing and Sandcastle Café!
  • Learn to paint a gorgeous sunrise at The King and Prince with ‘Get Your Muse On’
  • Hop aboard the ‘Lady Jane’ for an eco adventure through the famed Marshes of Glynn
  • Spring Libations in the Oceanfront ECHO Lounge and Under the Stars~

My Keys Journey … Part 1

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My keys journey…

Today I am sitting here at my favorite place on the island Fort Zachary Taylor. Or as some of the locals call it Elizabeth Taylor since it got a reputation as THE place for gay men to hangout. I first heard that term from my landlord David. He is a very nice old man who used to own the Florida Keys magazine. I guess I should start a from the beginning. I left home on Sunday April 21st, 2013. At the time that I left Chicago, I had a possible house sitting job but all of the details were up in the air and I didn’t know if I had a job or not. I drove all the way to Bowling Green and finally stopped to get a hotel room. If you don’t know where that is its about an hour north of Nashville.

I then continued onto St. Simmons Island in Georgia. Stayed there for 2 nights and then headed down to Key West. While on my way to St Simmons I got a call from a guy I had contacted on CouchSurfing.com, he said that he had a place for me to stay and would help me find a place to live. I thought about it and I had a 50/50 chance of it working out great or I could be murdered and end up in a ditch somewhere. You only live once so I planned on meeting him in Key West on Wednesday. But first back to St Simmons island, a friend of mine works at a hotel down there and she arranged my stay. Wonderful place if you are ever in the area it’s called King and Prince. (www.kingandprince.com)

She took me over to Driftwood beach and we were just walking around and playing in the water. I looked a little bit ahead of us and saw this big mass just sitting in the sand and thought could it be … A real life sea turtle? Yes indeed it was! He was actually injured and was missing part of his back flipper. My friend Coleen called the sea turtle rescue hotline and they said they would come out and get him. I’m sitting there thinking to myself this kind of stuff only happens in the movies right? Since we were only planning on being out there for 10 – 15 minutes we didn’t have any sunscreen on. Biggest mistake of my life! From that day forward I will ALWAYS carry it with me. (As I am sitting here writing this I have 3 different types with me!) I never want to get a sunburn like that again. The worst part is I didn’t even realize I was getting burnt because I was so excited and worked up about the sea turtle. After an hour and 15 minutes the local rescue squad drove up in a super size ATV. They jumped out and were yelling “He’s Alive!” I’m sitting there thinking to myself um yeah he’s alive… Why would we call you if he wasn’t? Apparently they get A LOT of uneducated tourists that think they are alive or even that its a sea turtle and it isn’t. We appropriately named him Bruiser. Sadly all that waiting and work was for nothing. He ended up dying the next day at the Sea Turtle hospital. It was defiantly an experience that I will never forget. The next morning I was checked out of the hotel and on my way to Key West.

That’s just the first part of the story! Stay tuned!

Peace, LOVE and Tweeting! -tOr