"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." (Amen!!) Lyndon Baines Johnson (Eh, not bad for a democrat, Eh!?) Water, Water, EVERYWHERE, this pretty much describes Miami. It just seems like everywhere you look, every time to go around a bend you se...

Caribbeanesque, warmer weather, more humid, warmer water, NO waves, "freer, looser, more laid back," history of piracy, privateering and plundering, more of an isolated, separarist feeling and atitude > this is how I'd contrast the Keys to So. California and even Hawaii. SoCal and Ha. are both, for the most part, more modern, more urban, even more Americanized then down here, especially in the "Lower Keys, aka 'Backcountry.' Thirty plus years ago when Key W...

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.---Voltaire (quote from Les Liaisons Dangereuses playbill) We just arrived in Key West two days ago. We drove 135 miles south of Miami, and along the very picturesque Key West Highway. We'll be here for 12 days and loving the warm weather and warm water!! Our next blog will talk about the very beautifu...

Friends; (Bayou running > gun shots, pig stabbings, rich food) Well, we got out ALIVE; I'm referring to the DEEP SOUTH >amazingly our hearts still beating. Loved visiting & Loooved leaving! Bayous and guns ablazing while running, Swamps, plantations, confederacy, fried catfish ad nausea, Cold Weather and Elvis > crazy!! So far, 12 states visited > Northwest, Far West, Southwest, South and Deep South > over 6000 miles in 7 months and goin...