FLORIDA ADVENTURE DAY 1
(Wednesday) Cheryl and I left Turlock at about 4 a.m. this morning and traveled with the 70 mile per hour bumper to bumper traffic into the Bay Area and to the Oakland airport. Southwest Airlines got us into Ft. Lauderdale a little after 5 p.m. (EDT) -- still light enough to see the beach.

We found a funky Thai resturant and had a great dinner -- The Red Thai Room.

I thought it might be more humid here than it is. But it's a lot like what we had when we lived in Texas -- pleasant enough with gentle ocean breezes, a tropical garden fragrance, all kinds of new-to-me bird calls coming from the palms, and lightening in the distance. I like this place.

No alligators, yet.