Team Leip Travels

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

10 March 2026 Sanford: A Visit With Dr. Schiff

After packing up the air mattresses we headed over to breakfast with Mike and Deb. The Juno Beach Cafe offered up some unique Lebanese items along with the standard breakfast fare. We drove 2 hours and stopped off in Sebastian Florida to visit Mara. One year ago we met up in Malta and in Italy, it was a blast! That year went by fast, but we picked up right where we left off. We toured her lovely house that is located adjacent to an Ashram, a kind of southeast Asian religious retreat. Her decorative style reflects this vibe and is quite beautiful. She brought us to a really nice farm to table themed restaurant. The farm is really close as there are several fields planted right next to the dining area. Lunch was great and after returning to her house for a spell, we headed back to Orlando,

Time for breakfast

All day everyday, this is my kind of diner

The Hush-wee platter. Scrambled eggs mixed with seasoned ground beef, onions and pine nuts on a platter with feta cheese olives and hash browns

Leslie is eating light, she knows a big lunch is imminent

The Cardinal Fan club

A few birds seen along the drive like the western cattle egret lifebird #1

Red shouldered hawk

We have arrived

We must be getting close to Dr. Schill

Ganesha!

Cold damaged plants were everywhere

Mara decided to cover the damage with blooms!

Nice arrangements

Very pretty

Like me this statue is not quite able to get into the full lotus position

A little North African style added to the mis

Reminds me of the market in Cairo

Zebra

A wide variety of masks

Back to Southern Asia

Years of wearing oversized earrings...

Puppets?

Vary expressive

Do the Safety Dance

Unique unicornish

Love the elephants

It is beginning to look like a museum

Buddha says boo!

Parade time

She must have put this out just for Leslie

Farm to table

Farm here

Farm there

A nice big bar

The aforementioned tables

Looks like all the goodies have already been sold

A fine bowl of lunch

A personal pizza

Tom Yum soup and a chicken dish

Apple presses outside

These raised beds were put here by a local co-operative looking to encourage homeowners to grow and share food

It has been 3 years and 277 days since we began our Migration

Monday, March 23, 2026

9 March 2026 Jupiter: Play Ball!

We hopped in our rental car and headed down to Jupiter. We mapped our route and it said 2 and a half hours. That was Sunday night and come Monday morning was a different thing altogether. When we got into the car, the radio reported a accident on 4 North, one on 4 South, one blocking the middle lanes on 426 and so on. Google took us the long way around and we started out heading due east. After an hour of driving through small towns and through many stoplights we were finally on 95 and due east of Orlando. Needless to say we were not to Mike and Debs as early as we had hoped. No problem, we still got to the game on time and we able to see a good game indeed. The Cardinals had three homeruns garnering 7 total runs to bring home a 7-2 victory. We enjoyed all the goodness that a day in the ballpark had to offer, beer, wine, bratwurst, hot dogs and cracker jack. I wanted some sauerkraut but it was no longer available anywhere in the stadium, grrrrrr. We were staying with Mike and Deb at their condo, so we headed back to regroup before dinner. The grounds were very nice with water everywhere. We decided to eat Italian and our ordering spread out over the entire menu, cheese ravioli, pizza, lasagna, chicken with pasta and of course soup, salad and garlic bread just in case we were still hungry. The pizza was particularly good on that evening as well as the next two days.