Aarons Travel Blog Archives - Aaron and Smell https://aaronandsmell.com/category/aarons-travel-blog/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:02:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Blue Springs State Park – Orange City, Florida https://aaronandsmell.com/blue-springs-state-park-orange-city-florida/ https://aaronandsmell.com/blue-springs-state-park-orange-city-florida/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:29:53 +0000 https://aaronandsmell.com/?p=368 Smelly and I traveled to Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida. The park itself is dog friendly, but dog swimming is not permitted. It makes a lot more sense you submerge yourself into an environment that is crystal clear, but also frail and sensitive to a lot of Read more

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]]> Smelly and I traveled to Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida. The park itself is dog friendly, but dog swimming is not permitted. It makes a lot more sense you submerge yourself into an environment that is crystal clear, but also frail and sensitive to a lot of activity. The swimming animals and overall scenery is stunning and left me wanting to explore a little further each time I go back. Im a regular as the camping is great and for some reason I felt extremely close to home the first time I ended up here.

It all started when this chick swam up on me like “hey wanna see a manatee? it’s right over here!!!”

Her name was Sofia and later she just rolled up on Smelly and I with her handpan and was like “hey you should use this for your manatee movie!” – The completely sporadic, lovely and talented Sofia happened to cross paths with me, along with many animals in the park including Mr. Smells himself. He loves walking in the park.. especially since he found hot dogs left-over by campers. So now the entire park is a constant hot-dog hunt.

The camping is only $24 with my discount, so Smelly and I live here in the off-season anytime we can. Its nice to be able to leave the shop on any given day and cruise over to an absolute paradise I plan to call home. We save money on hotels by staying the van and or staying at the park. About every five days or so I will get Mr. Smelly a room so he can have that extra sploot room across any king sized bed. We love to eat out and typically you can find us at anyone of these fantastic Florida restauraunts.

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Calgary was a blast. My perception was completely wrong.

86Love & The Kids – Live @ The Commonwealth Bar & Stage – Calgary, Canada January 6th, 8PM – Filmed on some GoPro’s – As a US Citizen that had never been to Canada, it was certainly a surprise. I absolutely loved Calgary and I really enjoyed my time meeting new people and eating the food. Checkout my blog for more details on my journey throughout the rest of my life.

I stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn 610 10 Ave. Sw., Calgary, AB, T2R 1M3, Canada which was just a block away from the Commonwealth Bar & Stage also on 10th Avenue. The club itself is quite nice offering a spacious amount of room and multiple floors. Between a rap show and an EDM show, everyone was having a good time. I really like Calgary, I feel safe there. Canadians are extremely polite and the diverse mix of culture offers a very wide culinary menu as well as an unlimited amount of things to do.

I frequented the Drip N’ Dip Dessert Cafe – Which served up amazing coffee and I met Nasha who could stare directly through my pupils and tickle the part that connects my spine and my skull. She could maintain a level of intensity that left me stuttering to place an order, probably Ukrainian.

Every video will have a link and a description that also leads to the blog post that I create on my website going forward. Marriot Calgary Downtown Bathroom Code – 6688

What really sets Calgary apart is how wonderful all the small businesses are. Most corporations are outside of the city leaving you to many options vs the same 12 flavors in the United States. There were times when I could “blend in” and there were many times when I obviously didn’t understand something because I was a goofy American trying to make friends and problem solve.

In Canada no one takes CashApp or Venmo – they barely know what it is. People in Canada still use cash. They currently love USD due to the exchange rate. If you travel abroad make sure to call your bank in advance. Otherwise you end up like me stuck with a bar-tab you can’t pay, in an airport than you have to sleep in until your tiny little US bank will pickup the phone. But my first night was free, in the airport.

Smelly needed to take some time off as we had just spent 10 days in the van. He was happy to be home with Duke and Marissa 🙂 Anytime I pack up a laptop or grab a handful of clothes, Smell is ready to report for duty and haul ass into the van.

WE ARE LEAVING IN THE VAN TO FLEE THE HORRIBLE SNOW

I start filming editing and posting daily pretty much right now. I had to hire people to keep this rolling. This is going to be a wild journey. I need to do a great job at not using profanity on my website. Bad words are bad, mmkay? My goal is to link businesses and entities together on a platform that differs from traditional doom scrolling techniques and adds. That is how all social media is operating now and I want to be different. I want to build bonds through links with cool businesses that support each other inside of a local realm. Does that make sense? It will if I end up writing about your area.

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