We got off the ship on Sunday morning and took a shuttle to the Tampa Airport. I was conned into "upgrading" the car from a Ford Fusion to a convertible Ford Mustang ... in hindsight it seems pretty frivolous, but you only live once and there is a lot of sunshine in Florida.
We had reservations at a hotel in Fort Myers, but by the time we disembarked, rented the car, and drove an hour or so south of Tampa, it was nearing lunchtime. I also wanted to check the exit number for the Holdway's (my manager at Agilent more than a decade ago) because I wasn't sure it was as far south as Fort Myers.
Turns out I was right, and our lunch (at exit 213) was near the Holdway house at exit 195. Fort Myers was another hour south (about exit 120) and would have been a terrible overshoot to have to check in and drive all the way back.
Regardless, there was another Marriott hotel across the street from our lunch place, and the price was OK so we decided to stay there instead - and cancel our reservation further south. We had a nice visit with the Holdways, and got back to this new hotel late last night.
Today we ventured out into Sarasota and Sunset Beach - which is near the new hotel. It was so attractive to us that we've decided to stay another couple of nights here and forego any trip south to Fort Myers.
This place is what Palm Springs (my previous "best destination") could be if it had an ocean. I'm liking it a lot.
I can now understand the attraction of Florida for anyone living in the North East USA or Central/Eastern Canada.
Maybe these people have got it all figured out.
Now what to do about the hurricane problem??????
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Steve will be so glad to hear you say that! He's been trying to get me to go to Florida for awhile now........just seems kind of far from western Canada!
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