wispfox

One of the things I really noticed during our recent road trip is that tap water in the south is usually _nasty_. No wonder no one wants to drink water!

I don't, however, understand why. Sometimes it's absurd amounts of chlorine. Other times it just tastes like mold and mildew. Other times, it's nothing that I can point to other than unpleasant.

Even with a filter, the water in Orlando, FL is just yucky.

Seems ill-advised to me, but given that I don't know why it's the case, I could be assuming that it's a lot easier to fix than it is. Or something.

Sea World & Discovery Cove.

I forgot to mention, on our tour of Sea World, we saw a _tiny_ manatee calf. No photos, though, as they weren't allowed. Cute! Zoo Borns has a post about it

Then sleep.

Everglades National Park - West side. Not positive of the proper name.

Everglades 10,000 Islands boat tour, buggy ride, sanctuary, and baby gator!

I was in Colorado Springs last time I updated!

Lots of stuff sent home, a drum circle attended, and a flight to Orlando has happened. It's quite odd to not see heinleinfan and sunstealer after many days at their place! But it's nice to see my parents, and having a bed to sleep in was divine.

One night at my parents place, then we were off to a timeshare near the western part of the Everglades. Lots of detours for bridges being out (at least two), but we made it to Marco Island where the timeshare is. It's creepily rich, with boat docks _EVERYWHERE_ and enormous houses and such, and the timeshare is in the "poor" part of time. Which is actually preferred; I think I'd be even more creeped out if it were in the creepy-rich part of town. The place we had dinner last night had a rather terrible salad bar, but the seafood chowder my mom and I had was quite good. There was grocery shopping, then some time to myself while my parents were in bed (I'm not yet on this time zone).

The bed is a sofa-bed, and not great. Not awful, if I sleep on one side of it. Will try sleeping with it on the floor tonight.

Not sure what the plans are for today or tomorrow, other than my call with metahacker at noon (both our times!). I know we go to Key West absurdly early in the morning on Tuesday.

Watching a pelican catch a fish while we were eating dinner last night was pretty neat, and was quite like some of the fast food places in Laconia for reasons of water bird watching and boats docking.

Wished I had my camera for that! But I had forgotten it in the room for reasons of very hungry. And not sure if I could have captured it anyway, through the window and all!

So far, pretty good. Timeshare could have been better (having an actual bed would have been nice!). It's quite pretty, though. And one _heck_ of a difference from SouthWest. Water everywhere, including in the air! So much green! So many birds, many of which are white! Pretty funny contrast. :)