Early Life and First Steps in Travel Recently I heard someone say this is the Age of Travel, and talking about how easy it has become to travel and see the world. I’m doing it now, but this is nothing like my past life. My past life was about connecting to the world. I was…
Balancing Respect and Sharing Experiences When it comes to posting about my travel experiences, I feel like sometimes there’s a balance I have to maintain. I want to be respectful of the people that I encounter while also talking about what I see. I think it can be hard for outsiders to understand other cultures,…
These are my cats from more than 15 years ago. Captain, Eartha and Prissy.
How fitting it is, after so many years, for our families to meet hereduring Dunnellon’s celebration of its past, to which our Vogt family mademajor contributions. How important is our history to us? The followingquotations put this question in good perspective: “Let the dead past bury its dead”,Longfellow wrote. That’s bad advicebased on bad information. The Pastis not dead. Another…
From The Leesburg Commercial (1904) _____ By _____ NE South & East Fla. Publishing Co.JOS. H. C. PRATT, – – Editor. We notice by the Bartow Courier-Informant that our friend, Mr. Al-bertus Vogt, the “Duke of Dunnellon”,the man who first discovered phosphatein Florida and made fortunes for him-self and others and built up a greatindustry in the State out of the find;…