Recent content by RoccoPacco

+1 for KeePass. I use it with DropBox Support. Also both iOS and Android Apps. Plus it is highly rated and free.

We just got home from two weeks in the Dominican Republic --one week in Puerto Plata and one week in Sosua. We have travelled in the Caribbean fairly extensively, but had never been to DR. We found a gonga deal on Cheap Caribbean for Lifestyle Tropical (an all inclusive resort) and then we...

Gasoline is definitely less in MS and AL. We find the lowest prices between NW FL and New Orleans in MS.

I also highly recommend the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola. Plan on a full day. Also plan on going to the Gulf Island National Seashore (locations in both FL near Pensacola and MS) - some of the most beautiful beaches around. Also, years ago I went to Bellingrath Gardens just outside of...

Maybe not what you were looking for, but I use Evernote. Its great for keeping recipes (or any information). I start a notebook for recipes, start a new note for each recipe and use tags (e.g. side dish, crockpot, etc). This works real well for me. The recipes are then available on any mobile...

I believe it will also be quite impossible for the OP to avoid toll roads heading to the Everglades and Key West. As I recall the main highway around Homestead is a toll road. I also recall the most direct route thru Miami to get to Homestead/Key West is a toll road. For a $5 Sunpass...

+1 on Yellowstone (also nearby Grand Tetons and Glacier National Parks), Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH, Skyline Drive in VA, and the Smokey Mountains National Park. I also highly recommend the Blue Ridge Parkway - particularly in late October for the leaves. It starts in VA and ends in NC --...

I just finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera. I had wanted to read this for a long time. For me, it was not the "great love story" I though I was going to read.

Congratulations! I remember that feeling of ticking off the "To Do List" prior to FIRE. Good for you!!

Isnt it great to be retired! Today my DH and I drove to New Orleans for 5 days of fun and sightseeing!

I am members of both also. I found that during the accumulation stage Boglehead was a great help in organizing and simplifying our portfolio. As we got closer to ER, early-retirement was particularly helpful in thinking thru the exit strategy and ensuring we had thought of everything prior to...

One more thought... I would consider going counter-clockwise on your trip...heading to Astoria first then south on 101 till you cut over to Crater Lake and then north. This way, you are on the coast side of Hwy 101. If you go North on 101, you will constantly be having to cross the...

Last year we drove Hwy 101 north to south from WA to CA -- Oregon was truly spectacular and highly recommend! We Stayed in Lincoln City (at the Chinook Winds Casino) and in Gold Beach (Pacific Reef). Rooms were clean and simple, but we had a very good and inexpensive weeknight Dungeness Crab...

45 Total -- Getting to 50 is a goal. I am missing AK (have travel plans this summer), and then Michigan, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Rhode Island. I don't count airport layovers in my totals. Favorites -- There is something I have loved about each one. We were truly awed by Montana last summer.

We just finished a very similar trip in So Florida last week. Some of our favorites: 1) Everglades National Park -- recommend taking the Mangrove Boat Tour out of the Everglades City entrance to the national park while you are on the gulf coast. Airboats arent allowed in the NP. The small...