A New Adventure Begins

All preparations are done, god I hope so! Took the car to JAX on Wed., all the totes to the shipper Thurs. and all the final bag checks today and mailing odds and ends. I forgot checked bags can only be 50 lbs. now, and only 2 per person. Now trying to get Mom ready for the morning flight. Sure are looking forward to that first rum punch , Cruzan of course. St. Croix 3:00pm tomorrow.
Happy New Year to All!!!!

Fairchild Tropical gardens

Our time in Miami is coming to an end and I did want to go to these tropical gardens so, yesterday I plugged it into the ole garmin and off I went. damn these drivers here. In such a hurry to get to the next red light. WTF! Blow their horn whip in front of you slam on their brakes in front of you, squeel the tires slam on the brakes and on and on. And we all got there about the same time. Anyway, beautiful tropical gardens in Coral Gables. Saw some palms I had never seen before and some way cool orchids, well worth the admission price. There were sculptures throughout from some French couple that I thought were neat, Susan had another opinion. That's life, with Dan and Susan.

And had some great mango chutney on my sandwich there. Mangos grown on site.

Cheers!

A Larry in Protective custody

Yes, Susan found another "Larry" this time on Marathon Key. He was in protective custody though. Look how big this sucker is and you see why. Any Guatemalan see this guy he'd be on the bar-b and feed a whole family, jungle chicken. Better stewed from what I hear.

Then there were the gators we saw on our Tamiami Trail run they were pretty sizable too. Yep, got me thinking 'bout gator bites. Those delectable deep fried bits of gator tail. Yum Yum!

These road trips can really work up an appetite!

Key Tripp'n

"What am I supposed to see down here?"

Oyster shooter and I get to keep the glass!

Sunday we took a drive down to the Keys. What a fun time! The drivers here in the Miami area are absolute fools, I mean real fools! But the drive along the islands was very enjoyable, I wouldn't want to do it during the summer or in a few weeks when their "season" begins. We drove all the way down to Key West. Lunch was on Marathon at a great little place called The Island Fish Co. We both had lobster sandwiches, fried lobster. The first time either of us had ever had fried lobster, very good! I mean fried whole lobster, we made lobster fritters with head meat down on CC several times. Man that head meat was tough to get out and really not worth the effort, in my opinion. But it was a true learning experience.

I can post again now since we bought a new laptop down here. That cheap little netbook I bought was an absolute POS. The new phone was nice but tghe keys are so tiny and the process of posting sometimes didn't work, or I couldn't get it to go through. You know, operator error, that's me.

Windchill?

Windchill in Miami 33 WTF! Sure didn't expect this. Still posting on th phone. How wild. Cheers!

Miami we are here!

Well we got here without incident and a nice drive all-in-all. This place we are staying in (Candlewood Suites) is ok. not far from Susans store but not near beach or grocery. The two most crucial things to me other than Susan, ofcourse. Yesterday we drove across Florida on the Tamiami Trail! So cool. the everglades are just as expected and we had a great time together. Marco island sucked. condos and no public beach that we could find. So we went to the little "town" of Goodland. Cute old fishing village.