Florida Vacation Wrapup

 

My wife and I spent last week in Florida, first Ft. Lauderdale then St. Augustine.

While Florida has nice warm weather, it was a little too hot and humid in Ft. Lauderdale with temps in the 90s.  

A half day's drive north on I95 and we are in St. Augustine where the temps are 10 degrees cooler but there is rain during the day, ruining our time at the beach.

The motel we stayed at delivered breakfast each morning at no extra cost which was nice and kept us from having to add those meals to our grocery list.

While the room was a regular motel room and we are used to having condos, we were a little cramped for space, but we managed to work around it.  However, there was a crack in the floor of the shower near the drain that concerned us from a health perspective.

Each morning, if we wanted to go to the beach we had to walk 1/4 of a mile, half of which was a walkway, the other half was sand.  We came back to the room for lunch and to us the bathroom, so each day we walked at least 1.25 miles.

Cars are allowed on the beach in St. Augustine, close to the sand dunes and deep grooves are made in the sand from their tires.  I fell to the ground twice while pulling a buggy across those tire grooves.  While the fall did no damage to anything but my pride, it still illuminated that I was getting old.

My wife and I may drive down to southern Florida again to board a cruise ship but will not come down here again for a week of vacation on the beach.  We may try something on the Gulf like Gulfport but not anywhere in Florida.