Thursday, November 17, 2011

November 18, 2011
Florida Trip

Time for TAR and I to get away and spend a little time together, it's been a while. Left last Saturday for Bonita Springs, FL, made it to Daytona that night, nice upgrade to an oceanfront room on the 12th floor. Thank you Holiday Inn Priority Club. We got in about sunset, looked at the moon coming up over the ocean and immediately knew what our dinner choice would be......................
You can't hide class. Yeah, by the time I took the picture 2 were missing
Off to our AHRI meeting, I made a mental note of where the cougars were...........only to find out later they were panthers, not cougars. Hope those scratches heal before next year's swimwear season.
As always with AHRI the meeting was time well spent. and a lot of fun mixed in. If anyone wants to know how to run a meeting call me and I will get you in touch with the best.
While TAR shopped Tuesday afternoon I went out in the Everglades and made some new friends. I asked for an endorsement for a line of knit shirts, got no where with that. Really neat to get into the swamp and see these guys, always surprised at how dark they are.

Home in time, funny how I call a hotel "home"...................... for a cocktail party, yes, go figure....but also in time for a sunset that was unreal. I've been taking pictures of these things all of my life and still realize "oh this is good, this is better, this is the best" Wonder if Anyone else ever thinks the same?
One great plus from this trip was the elimination (pun, get it?) of many minutes, nay hours sitting in a parking lot waiting for you know who. I figure with this contraption, and convincing SWMBO to crawl out of the window at 75 MPH Sundance Kid style, I could shave hours off a trip. I think it is a wonderful idea and dub this contraption the Double Header. Any other thoughts for a name?
And this is in here because I like the picture. Funny I remember this day, I took Daddy to ride, Jackson was working in the parking lot at the Sheraton, I handed him the camera and told Daddy to wave. If that doesn't make you laugh I don't know what will. I miss that old car....................and that old fellow too.
So that's in from this old eastern shore, this year will be a very different but happy Thanksgiving. We're talking a food blog, food blog, food blog..................................

4 comments:

oldparatrooper said...

Nice shot of the "mobiles". They appear to be configured in the pilot to bombardier (back to back) vs the pilot to co-pilot(side by side). Either way is ok as the results are the same. When we used to use hand dug latrines we carried a big wooden box with precut holes with us that sat on the trails of the howitzer. This only worked when we trailed them behind the 5 ton trucks. Never airdropped one.

fishinoptishin said...

LOL@oldparatrooper.

I thought of several names for the 'contraption' but finally decided on one based on my deep and in this case, extremely appropriate feelings about that institution of higher learning (well, unless you play football) right down the road from me.

My entry is the 'TARholes'.

Anonymous said...

Doodie Calls

John said...

Double doody

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