Greetings from Sanibel
Posted 18:00 PST Thu Jul 19, 2007 in
Travel
I’ll have images later (I forgot my dongle). We’re on Sanibel Island at the Sundial Resort. We came here for a Transportation Research Board meeting. I’m a “friend of the committee” for one of the research committees of Transportation Research Board. I do some committee work and it’s good to be with these people. The intellectual stimulation does me a lot of good.
We’ll head out for Lubbock tomorrow, finish some business there, and then hit the road for Nevada Saturday morning. It’s been a pretty good week, if hard.
I wish I was more of a beach person. I really don’t like summer weather in Florida — too hot, too humid. I think I might like it in the winter, especially for a few days when the weather at home is really cold. It could be a nice respite.
But not now. It’s too humid for me. (Yes, I’m whining.)
Wife and I walked the beach this morning. It’s something I wanted to do all week. She picked at shells while I tried to make images of the birds. Brown pelicans were working a shoal of small fish about 30 feet offshore. Gulls and terns played catch-the-fish, trying to steal the pelicans’ catch. It was amusing to watch and I have a few images of the exercise. it was fun and amusing.
We did have one tragedy — Young Son decided to jump in the swimming pool with cellphone and iPod in pocket. Yep, you guessed it — it was a hard lesson learned. And it was expensive for me.
Oh well…
Now that’s excitement about a pool. I’ve been really excited about pools before. In fact, I once swam in a pool at the KOA campground at the base of Pike’s Peak in early June. It was cold as…I froze my young butt off while my mom laughed at me learning the lesson. But, at least I took the time to take off my shorts and put on a bathing suit!
— Mark 22 July 2007, 05:05 #