There are pics this time.

Car Train Roomette

The first part of our adventure was taking the car train to Florida. We had a roomette. This was the smallest private accommodation. It was incredibly small. The seat wasn’t wide enough for us to sit side-by-side. Instead, we sat in seats facing each other. We were so close that we were bumping our knees into each other. The room was just long enough that we could lay in our beds. I took the upper bunk. It took some time before I was confident I wasn’t going to fall out. Most people in private rooms took a much larger room. We made it through in fine shape. I spent several hours in the more comfortable lounge car. The train was only 2 hours late.

Anniversary Cake

We didn’t do much touristing in WPB. Mom & Glen took us out for our anniversary. We had a very nice seafood dinner at Bimini Twist. When we got home, Mom served an anniversary cake with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for dessert. It was all  quite good. Mom had converted some old 8 mm home movies to VCR, and had recorded a commentary on a cassette tape. I had these converted to digital format and gave her a copy for her birthday. She was quite pleased.

Whitfield Lovell’s Pago Pago

Today we drove to Jacksonville. We stopped downtown at the riverwalk to see the Cummer museum. I saw one work that caught my eye. The museum includes a garden along the river. The plants were in bloom, and music from a street festival was drifting over the river’s waves. It was a very nice day and an interesting couple of hours.

Our surprise news is that the NPS is interested in our being volunteers at Jewel Cave in South Dakota. We will probably have a phone interview this week. If the interview goes well, we will spend the summer in South Dakota.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.