Author Archives: TheJessicaness

World Golf Village

I won a ticket to the World Golf Village in St. Augustine off of I-95 and had a year to use it. We ended up going one month before the ticket expired. Neither of us have ever really been into … Continue reading

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A Walk through Jacksonville Zoo

A visit to the zoo can be fun. You are able to pay $10 (except in San Diego it’s $40) and see brown warthogs, green lizards, yellow snakes, pink flamingos, striped sharks, spotted giraffes, fuzzy lemurs, small turtles, big bears, … Continue reading

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A Good Crab Day

As we walked together speechless, I took pictures of: Fort Jefferson inside and out; the water where we snorkeled and the moat where we could not; a hard-boiled egg we brought with us that got smashed; Caleb’s finger-painted, sun-burnt back; … Continue reading

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The Symphony with Talidra

Above is the Jacoby Symphony Hall opened in the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Jacksonville in 1997. There is a seating capacity of 1,800; that today is packed with, four districts from Duval County, elementary students on … Continue reading

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Remnants of the Debatable Land

Not much can be seen here of what once used to be at Ft. Frederica on St. Simon’s Island except this old shelter, parts of the fort, and some foundation ruins from the old settlement spread over the 40 acres … Continue reading

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