I am exhausted. Yesterday, Big Daddy and I did a 13 hour (round trip) drive to Tampa and back. While I enjoy driving and riding (and Drivin' n Cryin' 80's babies) it was too much for my 40 year old lower back. We didn't have enough time to break it up with and take some time to stretch our legs. Mama's on Advil today. There's a lesson in that.
It was the first time I have ever been across Alligator Alley, and I enjoyed the vast view of the Everglades. Out to the horizon on either side: saw-grass, cypress and the big Florida sky! I find the clouds in Florida as expressive and changeable as human faces. I wish I brought our camera. I did not find it the Alley as lonesome and ominous as many have described it to me. Anyway we came up with a few blog ideas, so hopefully they will turn up here soon.
Of course we saw many alligators. And tourists.
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Many years ago, before beginning a 20 stint in the Air Force, I lived in Immokalee, which is near Alligator Alley. My dad used to catch some huge bass out of that place, and I've seen it myself scores of times. Beautiful stretch of road, to be sure.
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