Florida and Baseball
Trip Start
Mar 13, 2008
1
9
14
Trip End
Mar 29, 2008
Port Saint Lucie,
Florida,
United States
Friday, March 21, 2008
We're in Florida. Got here Tuesday but discovered that the place we're staying doesn't have wi-fi that we were able to get to work. But Linda did find Camille's Sidewalk Cafe and so now we're ensconced in the cafe with coffee and bagel and fast, free wi-fi. Groovy,doovy.
Went to our first ball game last night. The Mets won 7-0. It got cold though (maybe 60 and pretty windy) I wish I'd taken my fleece. There were hundreds of people in shorts and flip-flops who were freezing. Lots of little kids trying to pull themselves into their sweatshirts like little turtles
Getting ready
.Anyway, it was pretty neat. We had great seats maybe 10 or so rows up from the field just past first base. The rest of the games (there's one this afternoon at 1:00) are on the first base line closer to home but higher up--row V--what is that? 22 rows up ? Still pretty good.
We went to the beach yesterday morning but it started to rain and we left before we'd planned to. The surf was pretty rough but the water is warm--70 degrees or so. I'm not a big ocean swimmer so I just kind of waded around at the point where the waves would slap me.
So Florida is NOT like Vermont. OMG it is like any other metastasized suburb but with flowering shrubs---a Super Wal*Mart on every corner--every chain store and restaurant ever created in the history of mankind repeated endlessly along the 4 lane roads. Bleh, bleh, bleh. Of course where we are is all white, upper class and everyone lives in a gated community. After the ball games there are long lines to get back into the complex where we're staying because everyone has to use a special key to raise the gate of our gated community. It is obscene. No one walks anywhere--you don't see anyone outside except for the dark skinned gardeners who work constantly like little undocumented bees to keep all the landscaping looking perfect
HOME RUN
.All this is the exact opposite of Savannah (at least the historic district) which I loved. It's all a mixture of businesses and houses--some big, some not so big--some fancy, some not so fancy. It was a lot like New York--at least like the West Village to some degree. (If the West Village had live oak trees with spanish moss dripping from the limbs.) We saw lots of rainbow flags and evidence of diversity--all ages, ethnicities, orientations, etc. I really am surprised how much I liked Savannah.
So keep checking back on the previous posts as I try to get the pictures that go with each post uploaded.
As far as I can tell it is STILL snowing in Corinth so I have no hopes that we'll find anything approaching spring when we get back. Maybe Jack and Susi will be boiling (making maple syrup for the uninitiated).
later gator.
