Apr 18, 2025 | Florida 2025
I got up even earlier to go for one last run on Saturday March 1st. I was out the door at the crack of 9 a.m. Pelicans were lined up along the seawall while across the way workers worked on continuing to fix the place up after the hurricane. I ran all the way to the...
Apr 14, 2025 | Florida 2025
Friday evening, Feb. 28th, we’d left the beach for a bit to cruise the shopping in Venice one more time, and afterwards drove down to the end of our beach for a different vantage point. Plenty of people were parked in the lot across the street and clearly they...
Apr 9, 2025 | Florida 2025
On our last full day in Venice, I got up at a reasonable hour and sat on the porch drinking my tea before going out. Great way to start the day. As I got ready to go to the beach to run, I found this kernel of corn in my big fanny pack. It made me smile, because this...
Apr 6, 2025 | Florida 2025
I was excited to do yoga on Venice beach, but Mom was still feeling the effects of the strong drink she’d had at the Tiki Bar. Drunk Beach Yoga, I think that should be a thing. Except of course that it totally goes against the whole point of yoga. But hey, we...
Apr 2, 2025 | Florida 2025
On the afternoon of the 27th We drove up Casey Key, which is just up the road from our place and right on the beach. It reminded me of Captiva Island, which had huge mansions lining the drive. But on Captiva, many of the homes were surrounded by tall walls or...
Apr 1, 2025 | Florida 2025
I went running on the beach again on the 27th. I was going to only run every other day because I’d hurt my leg a few weeks before, but then I decided I’d be fine, running on the soft sand. This time I headed south, towards a jetty. A pelican was perched...
