Sending Postcards to a Friend

A friend blogger from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines was asking for Postcards in exchange of free links to her Websites. I bought these beautiful postcards for her and will be sending these any time soon.I have been to these places and I thought of sharing these postcards to her.These are the maps of the states of Alabama and Florida. I will be sending her the Mississippi and Bahamas postcards too. Do you want me to send you a postcard from these places? Send me a private message in the comment section and I will send you one.

Our Road Trips

Hubby and I love to travel the backway which is the scenic route of Florida. The chance to see the farm lands of water melons, peanuts, oranges, horses, cows and goats are interesting. Of course, we are fascinated with the big houses along the country roads.Traveling on the scenic route will not cut the miles of our road trips. In fact, it will take us longer hours but, the beauty of the small towns are just fascinating and charming for us. As long as the sun is up, we love to explore places around Florida. We armed ourselves with a map when there is no signal and a GPS most of the time. Once in a while, we have road trips and we enjoyed it. When there are storms and heavy rain fall while we are traveling, we usually stopped in a gas station and let the storm pass by and we move on. By the time I have my license, we will explore the East Coast hopefully. From the East of Florida down to Miami and heading to the west of Florida, all the way to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, we have been there. We saw the coastline and we are looking forward to see the coastline on the East Coast.

Cold Blooded Joran Van der Sloot

I am in deep sorrow for the family and friends of Natalle Holloway everytime I watch videos containing Joran Van der Sloot. After five years, her body was nowhere to be found and this man was never convicted. If the authorities pushed to convict this man after the confessions on the tape, he would have never met Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, who was murdered by the same man just last week.

I pray that the cold case about Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba will soon have justice. I bet you saw the face of Joran Van der Sloot on the news over and over again. Have you seen remorse? Have you seen guilt? NOTHING! I bet he is the most hated man on Earth at present time. Why I say that? On the latest case, Joran Van der Sloot can never say somebody helped him in murdering Stephany Flores Ramirez. He had claimed that someone offered help in disposing Natalee's body. In this case, not anymore! He is in a foreign land, Aruba can not protect him! Joran killed Stephany! Joran and Stepahy were seen together on the casino floor, seen together going in his room and he checked out in few hours leaving the dead body inside. Cold Blooded murderer! This man is sick and should be put into jail. I am sorry to say this but I guess, the notorious prisoners will eat him alive in the jail in Peru. Joran Van der Sloot is a sick man and prison cell is his only refuge!

I can not help but post this comments that I saw in Gather.com: LIBBY BUTLER said:

I joined Gather, just so I could comment on this vile subject. My heart, thoughts, sympathy and prayers for Stephany's family and friends. What a terrible and senseless tragedy. The blood from the slaughter of this young woman is not only on the hands of Joran Van der Sloot, but also on the hands of Aruba. If the officials in Aruba had done their job when Natalee disappeared, instead of protecting the vermin, Stephany's murder would have never taken place. I live in Alabama, so Natalee's death really hit home and Stephany was killed exactly 5 years, to the day, after Natalee was killed. How many times does the demon (Van der Sloot) have to confess that he is guilty of Natalee's murder, before he is arrested? He says, "I did it!", and the officals in Aruba, just turn a deaf ear. And now we learn he has been attempting to extort money from Natalee's family, saying if they paid him, he would tell them the whereabouts of her body and how she died. Can he get any guiltier? Hopefully the Peruvian officals will take this case very seriously, something that was obviously never done in Aruba, and give this Son of Satan what he deserves and has coming to him.

The Coastal Crisis

We all know that BP is doing something to stop the oil spill but, it is not enough! 45 days had passed, still the crude oil emit tons of oil. Look at the dying bird in Louisiana! That is really a sad and heartbreaking sight! (photo courtesy:audubonoffloridanews.org)My husband and I love the beach since we live close by the amazing view of the Gulf Coast. Everyday, we drove by the Beach Boulevard and just enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the beach area facing the Gulf of Mexico. When the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded last April 20,2010, the people living in the Gulf Coast area are truly devastated. Fishing Industry will be paralyzed and like a domino effect, it would mean job lost to those who rely on fishing. If the fishermen can not supply the demands on the market, the Business Industry who delivers seafood directly to the consumers will be badly affected.

Just the other week, fresh oysters was already $10.00/dozen, twice from the original price they served. Restaurants felt the scarcity of seafood products and they were given a limited purchase. This crisis is Ecological and Environmental in nature and it would take years and years before it can return to its normal balance. How many lives will be affected by then?

Holiday Cruise Terminal Trip

We went to Alabama, Thursday morning to pick up our family who went for a Cruise to Cozumel, Mexico via Holiday Cruise Ship. They all have fun and they brought with them exciting stories. My husband and I asked them if somebody fell down overboard because the last trip, someone was. Anyway, they just told us that a group of family can not locate their luggage. The staff of the ship made a flier informing the passengers to help them find the luggage. Well, that is really a hard vacation if you lost your luggage. My sister-in-law told me, there were Filipinos who work in the ship. In fact, their food server is a Filipino.

The cruise is a 4 night/5days trip to Mexico. When they were inland, tourists were not informed that they can not bring home anything/collection that is alive or once alive. Some tourists bought some local products for a remembrance. But, they can only bring one and forced to leave behind what they bought. Once you pay your trip ticket, you will be asked to pay a gratuity for $10/day per person. So, it will be charged to your card once the cruise is over. Only iced tea, coffee and lemonade are included in the ticket. So, when you drink wine and soft drinks, you have to pay extra for it and a bit expensive too. The cleanliness is amazing and excellent. The room is cleaned three times a day. The pictures above were taken on the way to the terminal and the front view of the terminal. More Pictures in my Photo Blog.