Back home again

It's nice to be home again, I guess. I was gone for 2 1/2 weeks...one week at band camp then a week and a half in Florida and other parts.

Yes, it was a nice trip. I was tempted to write in my blog on my laptop from Florida, but I thought it might be best to leave things as is for a while. Things are a bit tense around here, there is a lot of anger and sadness...I'll leave it at that.


Isn't that beautiful? This was taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ20 digital camera - with a Leica lens no less! What a yummy camera.


Florida was nice, very hot, and we did not see a drop of rain from the time we left (Friday evening) till the time we got home (1am Monday, a week and a half later). On the way down, we finally gave into temptation and stopped at the much-advertised RUBY FALLS. After seeing a billboard for this place every mile or so down the entire length of I-75, we stopped and paid the $12.95 per person to travel down underground to see this 'spectacular' waterfall. Folks, save your money! I think my bathroom faucet has more water coming out of it than these falls. Definitely ddon't go if you are claustrophobic...they tried to cram as many suckers as possible down these little cave shafts...we had to walk 45 minutes underground with wall-to-wall people to see the falls, and then they gave us about 5 minutes to look and hustled us out of there.

We stayed a week in St. Augustine with my family (fun, sun, relaxing, gotta love it!), and then headed home. We stopped in Brevard, NC to do some tubing on the French Broad River (brrrrr...cold!). Spending time in NC makes me realize that I really like mountains. They make me so relaxed, just looking at them.


OK, this is a photo of an ancient van pulling a trailer with a junky car on it stuffed with junk. How cool is that...talk about hillbilly!!!