What a delight to awaken to the sounds of a rooster heralding the morning, the sight of horses grazing outside our camper, and memories of last night’s experience of helping candle and place ostrich eggs into the incubator as well as getting up close and personal with individual adult ostrich. Yes! Through our Harvest Hosts membership, we visited what seems to be the only ostrich ranch in the Harvest Hosts system. It certainly has been a most unique experience for us. A few years ago Ryan & Gaby went in search of a better life beyond Los Angeles never dreaming that the quest would lead them to raising ostrich and educating the public on the nutritional and ecologic value of these huge birds as a food source. We’re leaving Misty Morning Ostrich Ranch in Robbins, North Carolina with a freezer full of ostrich steaks and a desire to return for one of their events.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
They raise them to be eaten?! Oh, my! I don’t think I’ve ever been somewhere that serves ostrich.
I love ostrich, very tender red meat. Excellent cooked rare. I first tried it on a visit to South Africa.
Gaby did tell us to cook it rare. And Ryan told us about the huge ostrich ranches in South Africa.