Spent the evening on Treasure Island. We met friend Ed at Sloppy Joe’s at the Bilmar. Draft beer and the classic Sloppy Joe sandwich. Yum! Then on to Woo Woo’s Tkik Hut. Danced in the sand to “Sea Cruise”. Ed offered to take pictures of a group of tourists then posed with them for more pictures. From there we proceeded to his digs and got to meet the gargoyles that protect his impressive paperback treasures!
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!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
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