It has been a pretty nippy Thanksgiving Weekend here in Denver, with the temperature reaching a high of only 20 degrees yesterday. And then, after the sun sets, it starts to get cold. Of course, with the wind chill, it felt like 9 degrees out there, which always reminds me that my sister Susan and I actually own a condo in Stuart, Florida, which is predicted to have a high of 84 degrees today. Of course, we currently have renters occupying the place, who would probably object if we drove down and asked to "crash" there for a few weeks, and so we will just have to tough it out up here. According to the internet, Florida is now the fastest growing state in the union, the first time that has happened since 1957. And if it is on the internet, it must be true. The photograph on the left, by the way, was taken of my mother Mary and Susan on the Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale back in August of 1995, where we spent an afternoon after driving down from Stuart.
We drove down to Fort Lauderdale a number of times, and once took a cruise on the Jungle Queen, which docks at Bahia Mar Marina, where author John D. McDonald's hero Travis McGee docked his houseboat, the Busted Flush, at Slip F-18. The photograph on the right was taken of the three of us as we boarded the Jungle Queen for the cruise up the New River, past the mansions of the super rich, who these days are no doubt even richer. After the cruise, I had Susan take a photo of me in front of the plaque at Slip F-18, honoring Travis McGee and the Busted Flush. Sadly, I recently read that that plaque has been removed from the site, and is now located in the gift shop. The article mentioned that the person running the shop says visitors stop in all the time to see it. However, she doesn't understand the fuss - she never read the books. Very sad, as famous Florida resident Donald Trump likes to say.
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