The release date for Prince Harry’s book, “Spare,” is next Tuesday. There have been so many news articles and gossip articles about the book that nobody will need to read it. Personally, I don’t care about Harry, Meghan William, or Kate, and I don’t understand why anyone else does either.
In grade school, we were tasked with writing compositions about what we did on vacation. This is reminiscent of those essays. We were going to go to Florida in September, but the hurricane season intervened.
In October, we like to go someplace that has some fall color. So, in October, 2022, We went to Plymouth MA. The weather was awful on the drive there. I’d call it a deluge. It was also very foggy the whole time we were in Plymouth, but that didn’t really interfere with our exploration. The weather turned nice on our last day, so we drove out Cape Cod. Pretty area. I understand why it’s a magnet for vacationers and those who can make use of a summer home. The streets of Provincetown are so narrow I’d hate to take a car there in the height of tourist season though.
Have to shout out to Delta Airlines for a second time this year. My wife and I finally got to go to Florida to visit our son and his wife’s new house, but in November, rather than September. I lost my iPhone on the plane on my birthday. A Delta gate attendant found it. He answered my phone when someone called to wish me a happy birthday. That’s how he learned where to contact me. So, my phone and I were reunited the same day. Of course, he earned our thanks and a little reward as well.
We like the house and of course we wish our son and his wife well with it. We also hope to be invited back.
I’d still like to live in Florida, and my wife still wouldn’t, so we don’t.
One of my friends complained that Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park is very expensive. I guess he hasn’t visited Busch Gardens recently. Busch Gardens does have rides, but some of them were closed in late November and Busch Gardens is roughly twice as expensive as Zoo Tampa.
For the first time since they passed away, we visited my wife’s parents’ graves at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell Florida. It’s really a lovely place, but we hadn’t been there since the burial, so we didn’t see the grave marker before. I’ve said for many years that my wife should have been the PR person in our family since she’s much better at deflecting than I am. Turns out she’s also quite the phrase maker. Carved in stone on her parents’ grave are the words, “Together Forever.” That inscription is both appropriate and touching, isn’t it?
We visited one of our favorite places, the north public beach on Siesta Key. There were no warnings about it, but I guess red tide is a problem because there were a lot of dead fish washing up on the beach. Still lovely at sunset though.
The Mazda CX-5 I rented was a nice car, but some of the controls are located in places where they’re hard to read and reach. Also, the symbols on the remote key fob are too small to read without glasses.
