A propane campfire, a mug of perked coffee, and a bowl of sausage scramble. It’s a most salubrious outdoor breakfast. The weather doesn’t quite qualify as warm, but it’s not driving us inside the T@B for shelter either. It’s the first time this trip that we’ve felt comfortable lingering out of doors. Later this morning we’ll do some exploring of the Payne’s Prairie and Micanopy area. It’s just south of Gainesville and just east of I-75 that we have traveled past so many times but have explored so little. Perhaps there are geocaches to be found. And Yelp! advises us there is excellent Southern BBQ to savor.
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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