I’ll admit: I’m cruisin’. Today's the day I’ll be going home! I’ve been counting down everything. How many days I have left, how many hours of those days, how many more meals at Four Winds, how many more times I’ll go to Sunday school—it’s a heady thought. But in the middle of this fast-paced cruise toward the end of the […]
Some people go to coffee shops and actually get stuff done on chilly weekends, but my first choice is hiking, and just recently my roommates Jocelyn and Sarah discovered the thrill of hiking on the beach. Big Lagoon State Park offers five miles of hiking trails, and we did all five, though not all were intentional. I felt like from […]
I’ve climbed a lot of lighthouse steps. I’ve even scaled to the tops of lighthouses in Australia, where the view is over the other side of the ocean on the other side of the world under completely new skies. But while it is spectacular to gaze at the thundering Pacific from New South Wales, Australia and San Diego, California, one […]
Before my family came down from Alabama to visit me last semester, my dad read the web reviews (which mentioned alligators), weighed the options, made a decision, and plugged the coordinates into the GPS. We were excited for a day of hiking around Bear Lake in Blackwater State Park. We chose the six-mile loop hike, but it could have easily […]
What is college about? Certainly studying, definitely finding a job, probably socializing a bit, but taking a break? What madness is this? Many of us come from states (and other countries!) where we don’t have the awesome beach access that is available in Pensacola. Did you know that Pensacola has been ranked by travel agencies as one of the best […]