Imagine my excitement! Having grown up in Canada’s North (Some of my readers think that Canada is North, and how can you be North of North.) This winter I am bound for southern climes. I repeat, in the winter! I just turned 65 and finally have said “enough is enough, eh?”
So, we are packing up and driving south, not stopping until I can take off my winter coat. It may take us three or four days to reach our destination in Florida as we plan to visit Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and any number of the lovely places beckoning us to visit. The advertisements promise that “we will have the time of our lives”. I sure hope so!
Once in Florida, we plan to visit as much of the state as possible, to make plans (or not) for the winters ahead.
When and where I grew up, I can’t remember people going for holidays in winter. Post WW2, times were getting better, but winter holidays…not on my radar. As a young mother in the 60’s and 70’s (I had two children, 10 years apart), I always dreamed of taking my babies to a tropical island. I imagined their tiny feet tucked into the warm sand, mid-winter. It was not to be.
One thing about time…”Tempus Fugit”
So here I am on the brink of a month long trip to a warmer, gentler, more inviting land of warm sand and sea foam, gynormous malls, outlets and flea markets, endless museums, aquariums, and theme restaurants, armed with coupon booklets for discounts on all of them!
When I get back, I’ll report on the trip and whether it lived up to my North “headed”-South headed expectations.
Au Revoir. Be well,
Patti
PS: For those of you, who don’t experience snow, and may not “get it”, here are few photos of today’s landscape, after another 8 inch snowfall. It’s our life in black and white.
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