We broke camp on Pine Island and headed for Ft Myers. We stopped at a McDonald’s long enough to use their Wi-Fi to replenish our eBook library then went to Mass at Blessed Pope John XXIII Church. Wow! It may be the biggest church we’ve been in. After that we stopped briefly at a RV Show and found ourselves telling people about the teardrop and T@B campers. Honest, we don’t work for Little Guy International, we just like their campers! Then we headed south on I-75 and west through the ‘glades on Alligator Alley into Everglades National Park. We set up camp at Long Pine Key Campground and then did the ranger led night walk on the Ahinga Trail. At one point we saw at least twenty alligator eyes in the beam of our flashlight. One ‘gator who was at least nine feet long and according to the ranger at least twenty years old swam right up to us and then under us on the boardwalk. Incredible experience!
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!
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