2-Coolers, 3-Tote Bags Get-Away

September 10, 2010 by · 1 Comment 

Inspired by a recent article in Cooking Light magazine, I attempt to eat healthy on vacation AND not cook.   Eating healthy on vacation can be tough; lots of unhealthy meals out or slaving over a stove to prepare the wholesome fare of home.  Now I’m not above cutting loose and ordering the fried, smothered, gravy-ied, and over-salted [...]

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Postcard From The Gulf

September 6, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Mecca visits Gulf Shores, Alabama for the first time since the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.   It’s been four and half months since the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people and sending oil spewing into the gulf.  An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil gushed into [...]

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Spring Break Baby!

March 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Mecca needs a vacation Spring break is upon us!  I feel like a bear stumbling out of hibernation; only half awake, in need of a good summer grooming, and more than a little stinky (that would be due to an in-process experiment involving all natural deodorants that I now consider to be a huge mistake).  [...]

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