Our Last Full Day in Florida
Whew, finally nearing the story of of our Florida trip, and now it's already April...anyway, there were many things I wanted to do on this last day, but didn't have time for all of them. It was kind of cool but sunny on this January Tuesday morning. First, we drove out to the Myakka State Forest. . I had done a cursory search of it, but I didn't do such a great job - I was hoping to walk along a path by some water, but when we got there it was just a path surrounded by the scrub bushes that are so prevalent in Florida. It was funny to me that they called it a state forest. Mom and I started...
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