We left Miami on Wednesday and drove just a few hours, across the Everglades and up the West Coast of Florida to Sarasota.
My dad and stepmom made the move to Florida a few years ago, when they reached the age when it was required by law. That's fine, I guess; they seem to like it, and at least they waited until I had moved out of the house.
We had a pretty lazy time at their place. It rained a lot. Seven inches fell in one day, and the streets were flooded everywhere. So we mostly stayed indoors, save for a venture out to the Ringling House and Museum, where we saw a good collection of mostly Renaissance paintings and the requisite enormous and opulent mansion, built to house two people and a dog.
We also watched a number of movies, most amusingly, a Dune marathon, with the classic David Lynch and new SciFi Channel versions going head to head. It was 6-and-a-half hours of spice, big worms, and "Tell me of your homeworld, Uzul" (though technically the latter release screwed that up). Our consensus was that the greater detail of the longer, SciFi channel version was nice, but the acting and directing of the older movie was much, much better.
So there you have it. Not much excitement. Lots of rain. A bit of chilling before the long and winding road.
Miles: 7376
Posted by yozhik at August 11, 2003 12:07 AM